Decades later, George Welsh still revered for time at Navy

As a player, George Welsh quarterbacked Navy to a Sugar Bowl bid. He later returned the football program to success as the Mids head coach in the 1970s before departing and turning a woebegone Virginia program into a winner. Courtesy of Navy Sports Information Department - Original Credit: (Courtesy of Navy Sports Information / HANDOUT) Sixteen years after he retired from coaching football, 35 years after he left the sideline at the U.S. Naval Academy, George Welsh is still very much in the game.

Welsh, now 83, was honored at last Saturday's Virginia-Louisville game in Charlottesville, 25 years after he won the Bobby Dodd National Coach of the Year award for leading the Cavaliers to yet…