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100 Teams in 100 Days: Bixler Can't Take the Pressure, Goes One and Done in 1946100 Teams in 100 Days: Bixler Can't Take the Pressure, Goes One and Done in 1946

Eleven Warriors | June 25, 2016

Related Topics: Carroll Widdoes, Ohio State Buckeyes football, Paul Bixler, Canton McKinley High School, Ohio Stadium, Head coach, Missouri Tigers football, University of Southern California

The Ohio State coaching staff remained the same. Kind of. Carroll Widdoes and Paul Bixler switched roles for the 1946 season.

71 days and counting.

Following the 1946 season, Ohio State's head coach, Carroll Widdoes, a quiet and reserved man, gladly stepped away from the spotlight, allowing assistant Paul Bixler to assume the job as the Buckeyes' 17th head football coach.

Bixler, a Cleveland native and Mount Union graduate began his career at Canton Central Junior High School. before quickly getting called up to Canton McKinley High School.

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