Dave hart tennessee ad biography

American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator

David R.

Hart (May 24, 1925 – March 14, 2009)^[1] was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.

Hart has more than 25 years of service as a director of athletics.

Hart has more than 25 years of service as a director of athletics.

Tennessee Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics, Dave Hart, who is entering his sixth year at the helm of the Volunteer Athletics program.

David R. Hart (May 24, – March 14, ) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.

This wonderful memoir traces his life from growing up in Preston, Idaho, to Logan, Utah, from his high school coaching career, to his retirement as director of.

Hart helped upgrade Tennessee's facilities while dramatically improving the financial situation of an athletic department that had posted a $ million budget.

He served as the head football coach at the University of Pittsburgh from 1966 to 1968, compiling a record of 3–27.

Biography

Hart was the athletic director at the University of Louisville from 1973 to 1978.

He also served in the same capacity at the University of Missouri from 1978 to 1986, before he was appointed as the commissioner of the Southern Conference.

Hart was a native of Connellsville, Pennsylvania. He coached high school football in Pennsylvania for eleven years before moving to the college ranks in 1962, when he became an assistant coach at the University of Kentucky.

After two seasons at Kentucky, Hart moved to the United States Naval Academy, where he coached the defensive backfield in 1964 and 1965.^[2]

Hart died on March 14, 2009