Coach Dick Tomey '60 to be Inducted Into Pima County Sports Hall of Fame

October 8, 2017

Dick Tomey, a longtime college football coach and 1960 graduate of DePauw University, will be inducted into Tucson, Arizona's Pima County Sports Hall of Fame.  Tomey and another thirteen 2017 honorees -- including Rodney Peete -- will be feted at an October 29 banquet.

Tomey served as the head football coach at the University of Hawaii (1977–1986), University of Arizona (1987–2000), and San Jose State University (2005–2009), compiling a career college football record of 183–145–7.  He also served as an assistant coach for the NFL's San Francisco 49ers.

The Arizona Daily Star notes, "Believe it or not, Tomey’s best sport was baseball at DePauw University. Even while coaching Arizona’s Desert Swarm teams of the 1990s, Tomey was a catcher in a Tucson city baseball league playing against those 30 years younger and more than holding his own." (photo, l-r: Phil Eskew Jr. '63, Tomey and DePauw President Robert G. Bottoms in 1995)

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In 1994, Tomey was inducted into the DePauw University Athletic Hall of Fame.

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