Joe Maddock ( coach ) Joseph Herbert Maddock ( July 11 , 1877 – November 11 , 1943 ) was a college football player and coach . He was an All - Western tackle for the University of Michigan ' s " Point - a - Minute " football teams from 1902 – 1903 . He also set a Western Conference record in the hammer throw . He later served as a head football coach at the University of Utah , where he compiled a record of 28 – 9 – 1 between 1904 and 1909 . Biography . Athlete . Maddock was born in East Jordan , Michigan and began his collegiate career at Albion College . In 1901 , the 24 - year - old Maddock played for Albion football coach Chester Brewer who taught him the " Wisconsin style of tackle play . " Maddock was so effective against the University of Michigan in 1901 that Coach Fielding H . Yost enticed him to transfer to Michigan . He became a star for Yost ' s " Point - a - Minute " teams in 1902 and 1903 . He played tackle and punter at the University of Michigan on Fielding H . Yost ' s " Point - a - Minute " teams . Though he was a lineman , Maddock was also used as a ball carrier in short - yardage situations . As reported by " The New York Times " , the Wolverines used " big Joe Maddock , the sturdy right tackle , for first downs when a few yards were needed . " In Michigan ' s 1903 victory over Minnesota , Maddock and Willie Heston were the Wolverines ' s biggest ground gainers . After the game , Coach Yost told reporters , " They would not be stopped by ordinary tackles nor by less than three or four Minnesota men , who sometimes had to sit on them to stop them at all . " Maddock gained extensive attention for his role in Michigan ' s 1903 win over Wisconsin by a score of 16 – 0 . Maddock played at four different positions in the game leading one newspaper to report : " The great surprise , however , is that the famous Maddock , right tackle , will today play four positions , tackle , half , full back and quarter back . Michigan has a series of new plays in which Maddock ' s multiple duties are possible . On defense he will play tackle : when Wisconsin ' s line is to be bucked Maddock will be full back in plays whose exact nature is a secret . " Maddock was selected as a first - team All - Western player in both 1902 and 1903 . He was a unanimous All - Western pick in 1903 . Maddock was also a champion wrestler and member of the University of Michigan track team . In May 1903 , he broke the Western Intercollegiate hammer throw record with a throw of 141 feet , five inches . Coach . Maddock later became a successful coach at the University of Utah and University of Oregon . In 1904 , he was hired as the head football , basketball and track coach at the University of Utah , based on the recommendation of his former coach Brewer . When Maddock was hired in September 1904 , a Salt Lake City newspaper reported that the team hoped to see some " Yost " style football : " Utah is to see some real ' Yost ' football this year . Maddock comes fresh from Ann Arbor , where for the past four years he has been studying gridiron tactics under the direction of the peerless ' Hurry - Up ' Yost , who has placed Michigan at the top ot the football heap . Maddock certainly understands the Michigan ' system , ' and with fair material tho University ought to have a team this season that will trim anything in the intermountain country . " From 1904 to 1909 , he led Utah to a 36 – 9 – 1 record . In 1905 , a newspaper reported that Maddock is the " whole goods " at Utah : " He has the Mormons all football crazy . He has written here to say that his team now holds the championship of Utah , Montana , Wyoming ' and the greater part of Colorado . When he won the hard - fought battle with Colorado College a week ago the Salt Lake City papers said : ' Maddock is a now way of saying success . The great Michigan tackle has taken boys who never saw a football before and made them the star players of the Rocky Mountain States . " Student spirit at Utah became so enthusiastic while Maddock was the coach that a song was written dedicated to Maddock and his team for their sportsmanship and football play . A player for Maddock ' s Utah teams later recalled the coach ' s advice to his team as " backs — keep your knees up and elbows out , and linemen — get lower and lower even if your noses rub in the grass . " After retiring from coaching in 1910 , Maddock moved to Idaho , where he went into business in Mackay . Later he moved to Idaho Falls , Idaho and coached the football team there for several years . Maddock returned to the profession in 1920 and 1921 as an assistant coach under Fielding Yost at Michigan . He returned to Idaho Falls where he went into business and served as a volunteer coach at the local high school . In February 1924 , he was hired as the head football coach at the University of Oregon . Fielding Yost recommended him for the job , telling the Oregon athletic director , " Maddock is one of the greatest tackles that I have ever known . I consider him an excellent football coach with fine enthusiasm and personality . " Maddock coached the Ducks to a 4 – 3 – 2 record in his one season as head coach . In January 1925 , Maddock resigned his position at Oregon . The university asked him to devote his entire time to athletics , but Maddock declined . Maddock operated three stores in Idaho and indicated that a full - time position would be too great a sacrifice to his business . In his seven years as a head football coach , Maddock never had a losing season . Later years . After returning to Idaho , he coached the Idaho Falls High School football team until 1934 . In 1934 , he moved to Parker , Idaho where he was in the grocery business until his death in 1943 . In November 1943 , Maddock died at age 66 of a lung ailment after two months in a Salt Lake City hospital . He was survived by his wife Bennetia Maddock .