Fred Hill Sr. (July 15, 1934 – March 2, 2019) was an
American football and
baseball coach. He served as the head baseball coach at
Rutgers University in
New Brunswick, New Jersey
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bids at the school. Hill was also a head baseball and
football
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coach for the
Montclair State University Red Hawks in
Upper Montclair, New Jersey. He compiled an overall college baseball coaching record of 1,089–749–9.
Coaching career
Montclair State
In seven seasons as football head coach he compiled a record of 52–16–4, including four
New Jersey State Athletic Conference titles. He also led them to the school's first 10-win season in 1981. As the Red Hawks' baseball coach, Hill went 148–91–1 in seven seasons. For his highly successful coaching efforts he was inducted into the Montclair State University Hall of Fame. His jersey number was also just the third to ever be retired at MSU, joining
Sam Mills and
Carol Blazejowski
Carol Ann Blazejowski (born September 29, 1956) is an American retired professional women's basketball player and the former president and General Manager of the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA ...
.
Rutgers
Hill served as the
Rutgers Scarlet Knights head baseball coach, a position that he held since from the 1984 through 2013 seasons. He recorded a record of 941–658–7 at Rutgers alone and sent 72 different players in 30 years to professional baseball careers. When Hill announced his retirement prior to the start of the 2014 NCAA baseball season, his 1,089 career wins ranked him 11th in college baseball history. He was named the
A-10 Coach of the Year three times and
Big East Coach of the Year once.
Caldwell
Hill was hired as an assistant coach of the
Caldwell University Cougars baseball program in 2015, a position he stayed in for two seasons.
Kean
In 2017, Hill joined
Kean University
Kean University () is a public university in Union Township, Union County, New Jersey, Union and Hillside, New Jersey. It is part of New Jersey's public system of higher education.
Kean University was founded in 1855 in Newark, New Jersey, as th ...
's baseball staff as an assistant coach.
Personal life
Hill's son,
Fred Hill, was the Scarlet Knights men's basketball head coach. His brother is
Brian Hill, a former assistant coach with the
NBA
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's
Detroit Pistons. He resided in
Verona with his wife Evelyn of more than 50 years. He had 6 children (Nancy, Linda, Tracey, Karen, Jimmy and, Fred); Hill also had 12 grandchildren (Jessica, Danielle, Steven, Brian, James, Natalie, Andrew, Caroline, Nicholas, Alexandra, Giselle, and Giancarlo). Fred Hill, Sr. attended
Clifford Scott High School
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in East Orange, NJ. He also attended Upsala College and graduated in 1957. Fred Hill, Jr. attended
Verona High School. Hill died on March 2 at the age of 84.
Head coaching record
College football
College baseball
Below is a table of Hill's yearly records as an NCAA head baseball coach.
References
External links
Rutgers profile
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1934 births
2019 deaths
American men's basketball players
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Kean Cougars baseball coaches
Montclair State Red Hawks baseball coaches
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Upsala Vikings baseball coaches
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High school baseball coaches in the United States
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