Hall of Fame
Grant Teaff played football in the 1950's at Snyder,
Texas High School, San Angelo junior College, and
McMurry College. He was a center and was team captain
at all three levels-high school, junior college, and
senior college. In later life he was a famous speaker,
and he often said "I fell in love with football. At age
14 I said my life goal was to be a football coach."
A football coach indeed. Grant Teaff had this record:
1956 assistant coach Lubbock Texas High School,
1957-59 assistant McMurry College,
1960-65 head coach McMurry,
1966-1968 assistant Texas Tech,
1969-71 head coach Angelo State,
1972-92 head coach Baylor.
He was 23-35-2 in 6 years at McMurry, 19-11 in 3 years
at Angelo State, 128-105-6 in 21 years at Baylor.
His total for 30 years: 170-151-8.
The Baylor job earned him national recognition.
When he arrived, the Bears were considering dropping
out of division I football. In 5 years they had won
only 7 games while losing 43. Teaff persuaded them to
keep trying. His team won two southwest Conference
titles and were in 8 bowl games.
He was named the conference Coach of the Year 6 times
and in 1974 was national Coach of the year. He was
chosen 12 times to coach in post-season all-star games
- the East-West Shrine Game, Blue Gray Game, Hula Bowl,
and Japan Bowl.
Teaff served one year as Baylor director of athletics.
In 1993 he joined the American Football Coaches
Association as executive director. In this job he
continued his impact on the game of football and the
way it is coached and administered.
