Top Three Coaches of Buffalo’s Third Era

With kickoff just 40 days away and Buffalo Coach Maurice Linguist about to complete his first calendar year at Buffalo, I thought it would be neat to take a look back at some other UB coaches.

We’ve looked at the first and second era of UB football which covered from 1894 to 1942. After the war started UB football was sidelined and so the third era covers 1946-1970. It was a season fo change for college athletics and for the University at Buffalo itself, which changed from a private college to a state university as one of the four main institutions of the SUNY system.

Dick Offenhamer is the undisputed king of Buffalo coaches. In a time before conference titles and “bowl tie-ins” Offenhamer…