For Immediate Release: Thursday, May 11, 2017
Legendary high school football
Coach Bob Milloy to be honored by Montgomery Council on Tues., May 16
Winningest coach in Maryland history recently retired after coaching at 4 Montgomery schools
ROCKVILLE, Md., May 11, 2017—Bob Milloy, who has won more games as a high school football coach than anyone in Montgomery County history, will be honored by the Montgomery County Council at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 16, in Rockville. His former players and coaches that he was worked with—and coached against—are invited to attend the proceedings, which will be led by Councilmembers Sidney Katz and Nancy Navarro.
The ceremonies will be part of the Council’s regular weekly session will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Third Floor Hearing Room of the Council Office Building at 100 Maryland Ave. in Rockville. The meeting will be will be televised live by County Cable Montgomery (CCM). The channel can be viewed on Cable Channels 996 (high definition) and 6 (standard definition) on Comcast; Channels 1056 (HD) and 6 (SD) on RCN; and Channel 30 on Verizon.
The session also will be available live via streaming through the Council web site at http://tinyurl.com/z9982v8 . The meeting will be rebroadcast starting at 9 p.m. on Friday, May 19.
Coach Milloy recently announced he would be retiring after 47 years on the sidelines of Montgomery County schools. He spent the last 16 seasons coaching at Good Counsel, a private school in Olney. He previously was the head coach at Whitman High School in Bethesda, Springbrook in White Oak and Sherwood in Olney.
His career record included 405 victories, 124 losses and 1 tie. No. 2 on the list is the late John Harvill, who won 312 games coaching at Gaithersburg High. Coach Milloy’s teams went unbeaten in 1979, 1981 and 2011.
He is ranked No. 16 in the United States on the all-time win list for high school coaches.
Montgomery cable channel County Cable Montgomery did a story on Coach Milloy’s career shortly after he announced his retirement. That story can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqkPQ2S6Jpk .
“Montgomery County has been home to some of the leading people in the nation in many fields, including business, government, entertainment and sports,” said Councilmember Katz. “Many of those people have not only been leaders, they also influenced the lives of generations of people who were around them. Yet, only a few of these people would be called “legendary” in their respective fields, and when it comes to high school football, Bob Milloy certainly has earned the title of ‘legendary.’ We are fortunate he decided to stay on the sidelines in Montgomery County for 47 years.”
Coach Milloy’s teams won eight Maryland state titles, placing him in a tie with the late Al Thomas for the all-time most state titles by a Maryland coach. Coach Milloy’s Springbrook teams won state titles in 1979, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1988 and 1989. His Sherwood teams won state titles in 1995 and 1996.
He guided Good Counsel to four consecutive Washington Catholic Athletic Conference championships from 2009 to 2012. His teams finished as the No. 1-ranked team each of those four seasons in The Washington Post’s metropolitan area rankings of top high school teams. The undefeated 2011 Good Counsel team was ranked No. 4 nationally in the ESPN high school rankings.
He has coached numerous players who went on to play in college and in the NFL.
Coach Milloy has been named to the D.C. Sports Hall of Fame, the Maryland High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame, the National High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame and the Springbrook High School Hall of Fame.
The Pigskin Club of Washington, D.C., named him "Coach of the Year" in 1981, 1990, 1996 and 2007. He was honored by the Touchdown Club of Washington, D.C., as "Coach of the Year" in 1980, 1986, 1995 and 2012. The Touchdown Club named him "Coach of the Decade” for the 1990s.
Coach Milloy began his coaching career in Montgomery County while still in college at the University of Maryland. His first job was coaching at Little Flower School in Bethesda.
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