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- | ====== Donnal Leahy #22 ====== | + | ====== Donnal |
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+ | Inducted into the University of Nebraska, Omaha Athletic Hall of Fame in 1993.\\ | ||
+ | Inducted into the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.\\ | ||
+ | Inducted into the Omaha Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.\\ | ||
+ | Inducted into the Creighton Hall of Fame in 2008.\\ | ||
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+ | ===== Marquette Career ===== | ||
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+ | Led Marquette in points after touchdown in both 1950 and 1951. | ||
+ | Was rewarded by selection to play in the annual Blue-Gray College All-Star game in 1951. | ||
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+ | ===== Post-Marquette Career ===== | ||
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+ | Leahy returned to Creighton Prep as a coach (head coach for 17 years) and ran a storied program. Under Leahy, Prep's pass-run oriented teams would win eight state championships (the second most by any coach in state history), and four of them went unbeaten. During 1952-72 at Prep, Leahy won 118 games and his teams amassed a .787 winning percentage. | ||
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+ | After serving as the director of coliseum activities at Ak-Sar-Ben, Leahy suited up as the athletic director at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. After 11 successful years, he left UNO and became Creighton' | ||
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+ | He then returned to UNO in 1995 to help start their Division I hockey program. Leahy reduced his role to assistant athletic director in 1997. | ||
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+ | ===== Links ===== | ||
+ | * [[http:// | ||
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