Ed Biles

[paulxu]

RIP Coach Ed Biles.

Was there a few years when I was a student.

https://local12.com/sports/xu-musket...ading-ed-biles

[Masterofreality]

Ed Biles was Head Football Coach when I was a freshman. His last year, was the last year that Xavier football had a winning record. Tom Checcini, did have a 5-5-1 record in 1973, however. The last year of X Football.

Biles was a GREAT football coach. Left Xavier, went to the pros as an NFL Assistant then became Head Coach of the Houston Oilers.
He ran a "Center Eligible" offensive play to help Xavier beat the University Of Kentucky one year.
Dude was a colorful guy too. My old friend and former Sports Information Director Jack Cherry told me some rollicking stories about Eddie. There was a bourbon bottle in Ed's desk drawer in his office at Schmidt. I walked into Schmidt one afternoon to see Ray Baldwin about a Golf team matter, and there was Eddie and Jack sharing shots BEFORE practice. It wasn't the only time. College Sports were a whole different thing back then. There were dinners set up by Cherry with different AD's of other schools, Big Jim McCafferty and Biles ostensibly for scheduling discussions. Not sure how much actual business was accomplished, but Jack said there was plenty of whisky, trash talking and arm wrestling at the Maisonette.

#RIPEd

[paulxu]

'65 was a great year for Muskie football.
8-2 record, with wins over UC, Dayton, Villanova, Miami, OU, Kent St, Quantico and Toledo.
Lost to Texas Western, and on a last minute field goal to Chattanooga. (Kicked by a former classmate of mine from Notre Dame HS in Chattanooga).

Probably Biles best year. Carroll Williams and Abramowicz clicked all year. Beetle Bailey anchored the D.

[bobbiemcgee]

I got engaged after the Quantico game. I had just spent 6 weeks at Quantico in the PLC program. Invited the whole Marine Band to the party and they came. Night of Muskie lore for sure. Ed Biles was a character.

[xudash]

Thank you MOR, Paul and Bobbie for those stories. Truly enjoyable.

As I've noted before, my freshman year was the first year WITHOUT Xavier football. Cochran Field was such a pretty setting. Oh, well.

[nickgyp]

Have not posted in a long time but I had seen Joe Abe's post on Musketeer Madness about Biles being sick and today that he had passed away. I was only a kid when he coached at Xavier. Remember well the years of Dan Abramowicz and Carroll Williams. Yes, Dash, Cochran Field was a pretty setting for football and I recall both opposing teams coming from Schmidt Fieldhouse's locker rooms. The homecoming floats. The halftime show when the XU Band performed in the dark with lights on their hats. The black drum major who was more entertaining and enthusiastic as any drum major of the day. All very good memories.

And another link to Xavier's gridiron past gone. Very sad. May coach Biles rest in peace.

[bobbiemcgee]

'65 was a great year for Muskie football.
8-2 record, with wins over UC, Dayton, Villanova, Miami, OU, Kent St, Quantico and Toledo.
Lost to Texas Western, and on a last minute field goal to Chattanooga. (Kicked by a former classmate of mine from Notre Dame HS in Chattanooga).

Probably Biles best year. Carroll Williams and Abramowicz clicked all year. Beetle Bailey anchored the D.

Thought the loss was to UTEP in the Sun Bowl.

[xudash]

Which year did we win the salad bowl (forerunner to the Fiesta Bowl)?

[Masterofreality]

Which year did we win the salad bowl (forerunner to the Fiesta Bowl)?

1954.

[paulxu]

Thought the loss was to UTEP in the Sun Bowl.

Back then, UTEP was called Texas Western. They played their games in Sun Bowl stadium, which also hosted the aptly named Sun Bowl at year's end.

Texas Western in that same season (65-66) beat Adolph Rupp for the NCAA championship.