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The Woody Hayes Archive | Ohio State hires a new coach (1951)

Editor's note: Each week during the college football season, BuckeyeXtra.com will bring subscribers the original coverage of an event in the life of legendary Ohio State coach Woody Hayes, taken from the archives of The Columbus Dispatch newspaper. These stories, photos and clippings predate the Internet era and are being presented in digital form for the first time.

(Originally published on the front page on Feb. 19, 1951)

Hayes to Coach OSU; Miami U Mentor Wins Five-Year Agreement

By PAUL HORNUNG

Thirty-eight-year-old Wayne Woodrow “Woody” Hayes closed up shop at Miami University Monday and moved his T-formation to Ohio State as its 19th head football coach.