At Michigan, Elliott played football with his brother Bump, who also became a well known college coach.
Coaching career
After college, Elliot served as an assistant football coach at Oregon State University from 1949 to 1950 and the University of Oklahoma from 1951 to 1955. He was the golf coach at Oklahoma.[2] In 1956, he took the head football coaching job at Nebraska, lasting one year with a record of 4–6. The next year, he took over at California, where he remained until 1959 with a compiled record of 10–21. In 1958, he led the Golden Bears to an AAWU title and an appearance in the Rose Bowl, where they lost to Iowa.
In 1960, Elliott succeeded Ray Eliot at Illinois and was at the school until 1966. With the Illini, his record was 31–34–1, earning a Big Ten title and Rose Bowl victory over Washington during the 1963 season. He, along with basketball coaches Harry Combes and Howie Braun, was pressured into resigning on March 19, 1967, by the university which was threatened with expulsion by the Big Ten Conference over a slush fund scandal.[3] In 1973, he became head coach at Miami, where he remained for two years and compiled an 11–11 record.
Elliott served as athletic director at Miami from 1973 to 1978. In March 1978, Elliott rejoined his former boss, Bud Wilkinson, as an assistant with the NFL St. Louis Cardinals. Elliott served as executive director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame from 1979 to 1996 and was serving on its board of trustees. Elliott was also a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and was selected as a Significant Sig.
Elliott died at the age of 86 of congestive heart failure on January 4, 2013, in Canton, Ohio.[4]
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