Dick MacPherson

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  Published on: 5/1/2009    Last Visited: 5/8/2009  

  You don’t know if you’re going to get a chance to play and start,” said Torretta, who along with Brown and former Syracuse coach Dick MacPherson attended a news conference at the Nasdaq stock market in midtown Manhattan.

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  Published on: 11/24/2008    Last Visited: 11/24/2008  

  ONEONTA Former Syracuse University and New England Patriots football coach Dick MacPherson applauded the Oneonta High School Football Booster Club in a brief but spirited speech Sunday.
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  More than 200 Oneonta players, coaches, family members and friends filled the conference room at the Holiday Inn and MacPherson took note of this during his dinner before the speech.
  
  "I think this shows how much they like football," MacPherson, 78, said. "It's great for the kids."
  
  MacPherson paid special attention to the stunning victory Saturday by Syracuse over Notre Dame.
  
  "I was so damn glad for the kids. Nothing could be sweeter," MacPherson said.
  
  MacPherson, a radio analyst for the Orange, said he continues to have close ties with Syracuse and still travels with the team. He coached the Orange from 1980 to 1990, and his tenure there included an undefeated season in 1987. Previously, he had stints as an assistant coach with the Cleveland Browns and Denver Broncos in the NFL and was a head coach for the University of Massachusetts. He left college ball for two seasons as the head coach for the New England Patriots beginning in 1991.
  
  MacPherson offered the Yellow Jackets players and booster club members some of the advice he gave his own players over the years.
  
  "Don't worry about what people say to you before the game; it's what they say to you after the game," McPherson said.
  
  Quoting Twain, he said: "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
  
  He also read lines from Kipling's poem "Gunga Din," which he had used to motivate his players.

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  Published on: 9/13/2008    Last Visited: 9/13/2008  

  Joe Paterno and former Syracuse/New England Patriots head coach Dick MacPherson just spent several minutes chatting on the field.

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  Joining Brown and Torretta for enshrinement will be New Mexico State running back Pervis Atkins, Arizona defensive back Chuck Cecil, Auburn fullback Ed Dyas, West Virginia quarterback Major Harris, Brigham Young tight end Gordon Hudson, Harvard center William Lewis, Alabama linebacker Woodrow Lowe, Stanford wide receiver Ken Margerum, Texas defensive tackle Steve McMichael, Ohio State linebacker Chris Spielman, Iowa linebacker Larry Station, Georgia Tech defensive end Pat Swilling, Penn State running back Curt Warner, Nebraska defensive end Grant Wistrom, and coaches Dick MacPherson and John Robinson.
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  MacPherson amassed a record of 111-73-5 during his career as coach at Massachusetts and Syracuse. He earned NCAA Coach of the Year honors in 1987 after leading the Orange to an 11-0-1 record and the fourth spot in the final Associated Press ranking. MacPherson ranks third all-time at Syracuse for wins and most seasons coached.

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  Published on: 1/23/2005    Last Visited: 1/23/2005  

  To understand just how prestigious this whole thing has become, the selections are made by Arkansas Athletic Director Frank Broyles and Broyles Award board members: Coach Bo Schembechler of Michigan; Coach Vince Dooley of Georgia; Coach Don James of Washington; Coach Dick MacPherson of Syracuse; Coach Grant Teaff of Baylor; Coach LaVell Edwards of Brigham Young and Coach Hayden Fry of Iowa and SMU.

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  Published on: 7/26/2008    Last Visited: 8/22/2008  

  Dick McPherson' s family lived across the street near the Whiffle ball field that was between their house and the Dolan/Murphy house.
  
  Maybe it was the Whiffle ball field with the home run picket fence at the back that resulted in a street full of sports interested kids.
  
  Dick went on to Maine Maritime Academy and Air Force, coached football with the Cleveland Browns and was head coach at UMass.
  
  He revived a Syracuse football program between 1981 and 1991, taking the ' 88 team to the Sugar Bowl where they tied Auburn and remained undefeated, 11-0-1.
  
  Most New England fans know Dick from the two years he spent with the Patriots as head coach.Through all of that, he has remained close to Maine and Bradbury Street.
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  Dick is better than anyone at making sure former neighbors know of the good and the sad news.How often that happens for others on other streets in other places one can only guess.
  
  As time goes by, those connections mean even more.Dick and Jack were and are part of a life fabric that is miniscule in location but huge in meaning.

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  Published on: 4/24/2007    Last Visited: 4/24/2007  

  Former Orange star Chris Gedney will replace Dick MacPherson as analyst » More
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  , Bud: MacPherson remains a treasure
  
  , Talk Orange football

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  Published on: 1/10/2006    Last Visited: 9/28/2009  

  Former UMass head coach Dick MacPherson came in and led the Patriots in a boola-boola fest, but managed only an unremarkable 8-24 record in 1991 and 1992. MacPherson had to leave the Patriots after 1992 due to health reasons.

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  Published on: 9/1/2007    Last Visited: 9/1/2007  

  This will be a gabfest with former Orange coach Dick MacPherson.

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  Published on: 9/29/2008    Last Visited: 9/29/2008  

  Dick MacPherson, former football coach for Syracuse University and the New England Patriots, found Haggart's determination in his fight against cancer so inspiring that he introduced him to the Patriots football players and held him up as a man of courage.Haggart's visit with the team helped spur them to victory over a then-unbeaten opponent, according to MacPherson.
  
  Several hundred mourners attended his funeral service at St. Lucy's Church.

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