Dan Radakovich (football)

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Name = Dan Radakovich
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CoachYears = 1957-69 1970 1971, 1974-77 1972-73 1978 1979-81 1982 1983 1984 1985-88 1994 1993, 1995-2007
CoachTeams = Penn State (ass't) Cincinnati (ass't) Pittsburgh Steelers (ass't) Colorado (ass't) San Francisco 49ers (ass't) Los Angeles Rams (ass't) NC State (ass't) Denver Broncos (ass't) Minnesota Vikings (ass't) Cleveland Browns (ass't) St. Louis Rams (ass't) Robert Morris (ass't)
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Dan Radakovich is a former NFL football player and later an offensive line coach who helped coach the Pittsburgh Steelers to multiple Super Bowl wins in the 1970s. He spent 48 years in collegiate and professional coaching before his retirement in 2008.

Radakovich graduated from Penn State in 1957, and immediately began working on the coaching staff of the Nittany Lions, which he continued until 1969. He went Cincinnati in 1970, but joined the Steelers in 1971.

Described as "lean, and blond, a center in his playing days", [Arthur J. Rooney Jr., "Ruanaidh: The Story of Art Rooney and His Clan" (2008), p. 317.] Radakovich was "a Western Pennsylvania guy who had been on Noll's staff in 1971 but resigned to take a coaching job in college football". [Arthur J. Rooney Jr., "Ruanaidh: The Story of Art Rooney and His Clan" (2008), p. 316.] However, the college football job did not work out, and Radakovich returned to working with professional football, where he helped persuade Chuck Noll to draft Franco Harris out of Penn State.

After a stint in Colorado, he coached the Steelers offensive line from 1974-1977. In 1978, Radakovich left Pittsburgh to work on the coaching staff of the Los Angeles Rams. His last position was as an assistant with Robert Morris University.

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* [http://www.northeastconference.org/News/robert/2008/4/24/fb-radakovichrel.asp?path=robert Robert Morris Assistant Head Football Coach Dan Radakovich To Retire In June] , posted April 4, 2008.

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