BYU Athletics
Kopp was the only head coach in BYU history that was not LDS. He was the head coach for the Cougars 1956-58, finishing just shy of a winning record, 13-14-3. Kopp led the Cougars to a second-place Mountain States Conference finish in 1957 with a 5-3-2 record.
When I arrived on the BYU campus in the fall of 1958, there was optimism in the air. The BYU football team that coach Hal Kopp had assembled stood a good chance to defeat the University of Utah.
Dating back to the 1920s it had been a Utah-dominated rivalry.