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| Pat Sullivan |
Former TCU head football coach and Auburn
Heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan passed away on Saturday, November 30. He was
69 and had suffered from mouth cancer since 2003.
As a quarterback at Auburn from 1968
to 1971, Sullivan won the Heisman Trophy in 1971.
Sullivan was a second-round
selection in the 1972 National Football League (NFL) Draft by the Atlanta
Falcons. He was with Atlanta from 1972 to 1976, then the Washington Redskins in
1976 and 1977.
He served as an assistant coach for Auburn
head football coach Pat Dye from 1986 to 1992.
Sullivan was TCU’s head coach from
1992 to 1997. Under his leadership, TCU won a share of the Southwest Conference
championship in 1994 and appeared in the Independence Bowl following that
season. While at TCU, Sullivan recruited LaDainian Tomlinson to become a Horned
Frog.
After TCU, Sullivan was an offensive
coordinator at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and head football coach at Samford. He retired after the 2014 season.
Sullivan is a member of the College
Football Hall of Fame and Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.
Sullivan is survived by his wife, Jean, of 50
years, three children and eight grandchildren.
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