PASADENA, Calif. - On Saturday, the Rose Bowl Operating Company will officially dedicate the press box at the Rose Bowl Stadium as the Terry Donahue Pavilion in a tribute to the most successful football coach in UCLA football and Pac-8/10 (now 12) Conference history.

Donahue, who compiled a 151-74-8 record as UCLA’s head coach from 1976-1995, was inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 1997 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 2002. Additionally, in 2008, he received the Edward A. Dickson (UCLA) Alumnus of the Year for “Outstanding achievement in his professional field, in service to his community, in public service and in service to the University.”

As a 195-pound defensive lineman on the 1965 UCLA team that upset heavily-favored USC, then took down top-ranked Michigan State in the 1966 Rose Bowl game, Donahue was the personification of the “gutty little Bruin.” After graduating, Donahue returned to the program under Pepper Rodgers and also served as an assistant under Dick Vermiel on the 1976 Rose Bowl championship team that beat Ohio State. He succeeded Vermiel that same year. That began a 20-year stint in which Donahue brought UCLA into college football’s elite. His Bruin teams played in three Rose Bowls (1983, 1984 and 1986). Donahue owns the most conference wins of any coach in Pac-10 history (98) and the most wins in UCLA history (151). He also owns a 10-9-1 record vs. USC.

Under Donahue’s tutelage, UCLA produced 34 first-team All-Americans and had 14 players selected in the first round of the NFL draft. Besides his Rose Bowl and College Football Hall of Fame inductions, Donahue is enshrined in the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame (2001) and the Sun Bowl Hall of Fame (2005).