Adolf "Ad" Rutschman (born October 30, 1931) is an
American football
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coach, former baseball coach, and college athletics administrator. He was a head football coach for 24 seasons, head baseball coach for 13 seasons, and served as athletic director for 25 years at
Linfield College
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. He is the first athletic director emeritus in the history of the college. He also served as head coach of football and baseball at his alma mater,
Hillsboro High School.
Early years
Rutschman was an athlete at
Hillsboro High School (Hilhi Spartans) in his hometown of
Hillsboro, Oregon
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. There he starred as a running back in the late 1940s, scoring 20 career touchdowns. After high school, he turned down a professional contract with the NFL's
Detroit Lions
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and made up his mind to teach and coach sports. He received his degree in physical education and began teaching at Hilhi in 1954. He was an assistant baseball coach in 1955 before becoming the head baseball coach in 1956. He became the head football coach three years after that, winning a state championship in 1966.
As baseball coach of the Spartans he led the school to a co-state championship in 1962, with the title game rained out. He also led the team to both the 1966 and 1968 AAA state titles (the top division at that time in the
OSAA
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). The 1966 team featured future
Major League player
Bob Beall
Robert Brooks Beall (born April 24, 1948) is a former professional American baseball player who played Major League Baseball for the Atlanta Braves (, -) and the Pittsburgh Pirates in (). He played in a total of 148 games in his four-year Major L ...
, and the 1968 team Bob's brothers Jim and Gene. Rutschman also coached the first event, a baseball game, at Hillsboro's
Hare Field
Hare Field is a multi-sport facility located in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. The facility opened in 1965 and is owned by the Hillsboro School District. Hare Field includes a baseball stadium, a football stadium, practice fields, and track an ...
in 1965. Hillsboro had four
Little League
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.
Legacy
Rutschman's grandson,
Adley Rutschman
Adley Stan Rutschman (born February 6, 1998) is an American professional baseball catcher for the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for the Oregon State Beavers. He was named the Pac-12 Conference Playe ...
, was a
catcher
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for the
Oregon State Beavers baseball
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team. Adley was the
College World Series Most Outstanding Player
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on Oregon State's
2018 College World Series
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championship team and was selected by the
Baltimore Orioles
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with the first overall pick in the
2019 Major League Baseball Draft
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.
Head coaching record
College football
References
External links
Linfield profile*
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1931 births
Living people
Linfield Wildcats athletic directors
Linfield Wildcats baseball coaches
Linfield Wildcats football coaches
High school baseball coaches in the United States
High school football coaches in Oregon
College Football Hall of Fame inductees
Hillsboro High School (Oregon) alumni
Linfield University alumni
Sportspeople from Hillsboro, Oregon
Coaches of American football from Oregon
Baseball coaches from Oregon