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Tom Hauck was one of the nicest men I will ever meet !!! When he was serving as Joe Glenn's D line coach on the 2001 NC team and then for his nephew Bobby, we would often see Coach Hauck at The MO Club after games, and he would humor this armchair QB by patiently taking out his pen, drawing X's and O's on bar napkins, and explain the shifts, stunts, stems and twists he was employing on our D line--the outstanding math teacher he was at Billings Srnior High shown through during these impromptu sessions almost always following a great GRIZ victory @ WA-GRIZ !!!
Tom played as a great GRIZ LB for us in the early-mid 1960's until he suffered a knee injury back when knee surgery was pretty primitive--no outpatient scope procedures back then--and as a result of this serious injury, Tom became our center over 60 years ago. From there after he graduated from UM, he went to Vietnam as a Army lieutenant and served honorably like his brother Robert, a US Marine, and Bobby and Tim's dad.
After Vietnam, Tom went on to teach math at Billings Senior High and coach football, eventually becoming the Bronc's head coach before retiring from the Billings Public Schools and becoming DC at Rocky Mtn. College of The Frontier Conference here in Billings and then shipping out back to Missoula 25 years ago to become new GRIZ HC Joe Glenn's DL coach.
Tom's service will be next Friday, Sept. 26, at 10 AM at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Missoula with the Catholic vigil from 6-8 PM at the Garden City Funeral Home on Thursday, 9/25. If you didn't know Coach Tom Hauck, the Butte Bulldog star high school athlete and GRIZ great player and coach, you should feel cheated--he was a good, decent, kind man and great coach that I will never forget !!!
Tom played as a great GRIZ LB for us in the early-mid 1960's until he suffered a knee injury back when knee surgery was pretty primitive--no outpatient scope procedures back then--and as a result of this serious injury, Tom became our center over 60 years ago. From there after he graduated from UM, he went to Vietnam as a Army lieutenant and served honorably like his brother Robert, a US Marine, and Bobby and Tim's dad.
After Vietnam, Tom went on to teach math at Billings Senior High and coach football, eventually becoming the Bronc's head coach before retiring from the Billings Public Schools and becoming DC at Rocky Mtn. College of The Frontier Conference here in Billings and then shipping out back to Missoula 25 years ago to become new GRIZ HC Joe Glenn's DL coach.
Tom's service will be next Friday, Sept. 26, at 10 AM at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Missoula with the Catholic vigil from 6-8 PM at the Garden City Funeral Home on Thursday, 9/25. If you didn't know Coach Tom Hauck, the Butte Bulldog star high school athlete and GRIZ great player and coach, you should feel cheated--he was a good, decent, kind man and great coach that I will never forget !!!
