Stephen A. Coutchie (August 6, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an

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 with ...

player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Arizona State Teachers College at Tempe, now

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

, in 1946, compiling a record of 2–7–2. Before coming to Arizona State, Coutchie coached both football ''and'' basketball at Mesa Union High School in

Mesa, Arizona Mesa ( ) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, Maricopa County, in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is the most populous city in the East Valley (Phoenix metropolitan area), East Valley section of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. It is bordered by ...

, winning a combined five state championships (two football, three basketball). He attended Thornton Township High School in Harvey, Illinois and played football as a

quarterback The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive platoon and mostly line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern Ame ...

at the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Universit ...

from 1922 to 1923.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Coutchie, Steve 1899 births 1983 deaths American football quarterbacks Arizona State Sun Devils football coaches Illinois Fighting Illini football players High school football coaches in Arizona Sportspeople from Harvey, Illinois Players of American football from Cook County, Illinois