Dick Coury is a former American football

American football

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 coach who served as head coach of the Boston/New Orleans/Portland Breakers

Portland Breakers

The Portland Breakers were a professional American Football team that played in the United States Football League in the mid 1980s. Before moving to Portland, Oregon, the franchise was previously in Boston, Massachusetts as the Boston Breakers and New Orleans, Louisiana as the New Orleans...

 of the United States Football League

United States Football League

The United States Football League was an American football league which was in active operation from 1983 to 1987. It played a spring/summer schedule in its first three seasons and a traditional autumn/winter schedule was set to commence before league operations ceased.The USFL was conceived in...

 from 1983 to 1985. He was named as the USFL coach of the year in 1983.

A 1951 University of Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame

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 graduate, Coury was not a football player, but served as a student assistant for head coach Frank Leahy

Frank Leahy

Francis William Leahy was an American football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and professional sports executive...

. Coury also served as head coach of Mater Dei High School

Mater Dei High School (Santa Ana, California)

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, compiling a record of 85–9–5 from 1957 to 1965 before joining University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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 coach John McKay's staff as defensive coordinator

Defensive coordinator

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Coury then moved on to California State University, Fullerton

California State University, Fullerton

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, serving as the school's first head coach in 1970 and 1971, tallying a record of 13–8–1.

Coury has also held coaching positions with the Denver Broncos

Denver Broncos

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, Houston Oilers, Los Angeles Rams, Minnesota Vikings

Minnesota Vikings

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, New England Patriots

New England Patriots

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, Philadelphia Eagles

Philadelphia Eagles

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, and San Diego Chargers

San Diego Chargers

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 and served as head coach of the Portland Storm

Portland Storm

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 of the World Football League

World Football League

The World Football League was a short-lived gridiron football league that played in 1974 and part of 1975. Although the league's proclaimed ambition was to bring American football onto a worldwide stage, the farthest the WFL reached was placing a team – the Hawaiians – in Honolulu, Hawaii. The...

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