Calvert Hall to honor former football coach Miceli
Former Calvert Hall football coach and longtime math teacher Augie Miceli will be honored before the Cardinals' home game Friday night. (Brendan Cavanaugh/Patuxent Publishing)
Calvert Hall will honor former football coach Augie Miceli at a ceremony before Friday night’s game to dedicate a coaches’ wing in his name in Paul Angelo Russo Stadium.
Miceli coached the Cardinals from 1974 to 1987 and won 104 games – more than any other Cardinals’ coach. In 1979, he was named The Baltimore Sun’s All-Metro Coach of the Year after leading the Cardinals to an undefeated season and the MSA A Conference championship.
Miceli’s teams won a handful of MSA titles, but he is perhaps most revered for winning seven straight Turkey Bowls, the most consecutive wins for the Cardinals in the Thanksgiving Day rivalry with Loyola that is in its 92nd year.
Last year, Miceli celebrated his 50th year of teaching at Calvert Hall, where he helped out with the football team at times after leaving the head coaching position.
“This will be the first thing that will be permanent in his name,” said Frank Kelly, a 1982 graduate who, along with his three brothers, played for Miceli. “I think 10 or 15 years ago, a scholarship was endowed in his name, but this is tied to him as a football coach. He has taught at Calvert Hall for more than 50 years, but this is really related to football.”
Before the game Friday, a sign will be unveiled near the spot where the Cardinals emerge from their locker room, proclaiming the Augie Miceli Sr. Coaches’ Wing, Kelly said.
“It’s a great way to recognize him for his many years of coaching and all the championship teams he coached,” he said.
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Please convey my congrats to Augie for his good work. Here in Las Vegas I contine to work with math as a tutor to athlete at UNLV. This is my 51st year of teaching/coachcing. Us math people go on for a log time!! Congrats to Augie
Posted by: charlie sullivan | October 12, 2011 4:22 PM