Joe Morrone, a Hall of Fame coach who led the University of Connecticut men’s soccer team to the 1981 national title, died on Wednesday at his home in Mansfield, Conn. He was 79.
The cause was pancreatic cancer, the school said.
Morrone guided the Huskies from 1969 to 1996. He previously coached at Middlebury College in Vermont from 1958 to 1968. His career record was 422-199-64.
The Huskies were nationally ranked 16th or better 14 times from 1975 to 1996, and the school’s soccer stadium on its campus in Storrs was named for Morrone in 1997.