coach_years overall_record coach_team awards cfbdwid bowl_record sport birth_date player_teams article_title name
1974 1983 1984 & ndash ; 1988 1989 & ndash ; & 1993 1994 & ndash ; 1998 2001 & ndash ; ndash 2005 2007 & ndash ; 2010 ; 1978 1979 & ndash ; 57 -lrb- college -rrb- 47 & ndash ; 15 -lrb- high & school -rrb- ndash ; 97 & ndash ; 1 florida -lrb- ahc/dc -rrb- arkansas -lrb- ahc/dc -rrb- rice duke franklin a hs -lrb- nc -rrb- lenoir -- rhyne & m -lrb- dc/rc -rrb- air force bobby -rrb- acc coach of the year -lrb- 1994 -rrb- dodd coach of the year award -lrb- 1994 885 0 & ndash ; 1 football 3 march 1944 western carolina florida fred goldsmith -lrb- american football -rrb-
 fred goldsmith
fred goldsmith -lrb- american football -rrb-

fred goldsmith -lrb- born march 3 , 1944 -rrb- is a former american college football coach .
his final job was as the 18th head football coach for lenoir -- rhyne university , an ncaa division ii school in hickory , north carolina .
hired on november 28 , 2006 , goldsmith arrived at lenoir-rhyne fresh off a successful four-year run at franklin high school in franklin , north carolina , where he compiled an overall win-loss record of 47 -- 15 .
goldsmith retired on may 3 , 2011 .
-lsb- http://lrbears.com/article.asp?articleid=1190] goldsmith is perhaps best known for his coaching successes in the 1990s at two ncaa division i programs that are not accustomed to success : duke university and rice university .
his résumé includes the 1992 sports illustrated national ncaa football coach of the year and the 1994 bobby dodd coach of the year award .
at duke , he breathed life into a program still in the doldrums of the post-steve spurrier era and was known as a capable defensive tactician .
his team 's offenses were often hampered by the lack of athletic personnel and forced goldsmith to compensate by running draws on third-and-long and throwing wide receiver screens 10 to 15 times a game .
his successful collegiate coaching career , however , saw an unceremonious end when he was relieved of his duties by duke athletics director joe alleva just a year into alleva 's tenure , after only six wins in his last three seasons .
in addition , under goldsmith 's tenure , duke 's football program was ordered to pay walk-on kicker , heather sue mercer , $ 2,000,001 in nominal and punitive damages for its discriminatory treatment of her during her time on the team .
a federal jury found that mercer was afforded less of an opportunity to practice and compete than other ` similarly situated ' players -lrb- other walk-on kickers -rrb- .
her allegations also included sexist statements made to her by coach goldsmith .
-lrb- see `` mercer v. duke university '' , 190 f. 3d 643 -lrb- 4th cir .
1999 -rrb- .
