Michael Dennehy (born June 13, 1950) is a former

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the

University of Montana Western The University of Montana Western (UMW) is a public college in Dillon, Montana. It is affiliated with the University of Montana and part of the Montana University System. It was founded in 1893 as Montana State Normal School and was also the West ...

(1988–1990), the

University of Montana The University of Montana (UM) is a public research university in Missoula, Montana. UM is a flagship institution of the Montana University System and its second largest campus. UM reported 10,962 undergraduate and graduate students in the fa ...

(1996–1999), and

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(2000–2004), compiling a career college football record of 68–62.

Playing career

As a

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on the Grizzlies' football team from 1971 to 1972, Dennehy earned first-team all-

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honors in 1972. He is tied for second in single-season Big Sky history with 10 interceptions in 1972, while leading the league that year, as well. Dennehy is tied for ninth in league history with 16 career interceptions.

Coaching career

Dennehy started his college coaching career as an assistant coach for Montana State before switching to coach at high school level for a number of years. He returned to college football coaching at the

, a small NAIA school, before moving on to become the offensive coordinator at the

. In 1996, he was promoted to head coach of the

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, but left following the 1999 season to take at post as the head coach of Utah State, replacing Dave Arslanian. In 2005 Dennehy was fired as head coach of Utah State after compiling a record of 19–37. Dennehy became athletics director at Jefferson High School in

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in 2006. Dennehy resigned after the 2006–07 school year.

Head coaching record

College

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dennehy, Mike 1950 births Living people American football safeties Montana Grizzlies football players Montana Grizzlies football coaches Montana State Bobcats football coaches Montana Western Bulldogs football coaches Utah State Aggies football coaches High school football coaches in Montana High school football coaches in Washington (state) High school football coaches in Wyoming Sportspeople from Butte, Montana