Bill Mallory, who led Colorado to the Orange Bowl and became the winningest football coach in Indiana history, died from a brain injury suffered in a recent fall. He was 82.
Indiana announced Mallory's death Friday, a day after his son, Indiana State coach Curt Mallory, posted on Twitter his father was in hospice care following emergency brain surgery this week. Curt Mallory said his father was injured in a fall Tuesday.
Bill Mallory went 69-77-3 and took Indiana to six bowls from 1984 to '96. The Hoosiers have played in only 11 bowl games in their history.
In 1987, Mallory became the first to win the Big Ten's Coach of the Year award in consecutive years. He was 168-129-4 overall as a head coach with stops at alma mater Miami (Ohio), Colorado and Northern Illinois.
• Ohio coach Frank Solich, whose firing at Nebraska is still debated among Cornhuskers fans 15 years later, will return to the state this winter to receive a service award from the Football Writers Association of America. The organization said Solich would be presented the Tom Osborne Legacy Award on Jan. 9 in Omaha.
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Protesters gather at NFL headquarters
Civil rights activists protested outside NFL headquarters in New York, calling on team owners to overturn their new national anthem policy and urging a boycott of the league and its sponsors.
About 50 people gathered for a rally organized by National Action Network, a civil rights nonprofit.
Kirsten John Foy, the group's northeast regional director, was the first of 10 speakers who took turns during the 40-minute demonstration to criticize NFL team owners and President Donald Trump. "Our demand is that the NFL reverse that immoral and unconstitutional decision," Foy said.
