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Former Ohio State assistant, Navy head coach George Chaump dies at 83
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A former Ohio State assistant and longtime college football coach George Chaump has died at the age of 83, according to a report from PennLive.com. A cause of death was not immediately known.
Chaump was a native of Scranton, Pennsylvania and spent 11 seasons at Ohio State as an assistant coach under Woody Hayes. He was on the staff from 1968-1978 and was considered one of the top assistants with the program.
After a decade with the Buckeyes, Chaump jumped to the NFL where he served as an assistant coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was in that position from 1979-1981. Following that three-year stretch, he took his first college coaching job at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. In four years at IUP, Chaump’s teams were 24-16-1.
Chaump then took a leap to Marshall, where he was the head coach from 1986-1989. In four years with the program, Chaump guided the Thundering Herd to a 33-16-1 record. His best seasons came in 1987 and 1988, leading Marshall to back-to-back playoff appearances at the NCAA Division I-AA level. The Thundering Herd were 10-5 in 1987 followed by an 11-2 mark the next year.
With a tremendous amount of success at Marshall, Chaump was then named the head coach at Navy. He coached the Midshipmen from 1990-1994 and compiled a 14-41 record in five years.
In 13 years of coaching, Chaump was 71-73-2.
Dustin grew up in the heart of Big Ten country and has been in sports media since 2010. He has been covering Big Ten football since 2014. You can follow him on Twitter: @SchutteCFB