Chuck Klausing, an assistant football coach for Bobby Bowden from 1970-75, has died. Klausing passed away Thursday night at St. Andrew's Nursing Home in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He was 92.
 
He enjoyed a long and successful coaching career, first in the high school ranks where led Braddock (Pa.) to six straight WPIAL championships from 1954 to 1959 and set a national prep record with 56 consecutive games without a defeat.
 
Sports Illustrated once profiled Klausing's Braddock team in a four-page spread on Nov. 2, 1959 in the midst of its long winning streak.
 
Klausing spent one season at Rutgers as the freshman coach in 1960 and then three working on Paul Deitzel's staff at Army before assuming the head coaching position at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP).
 
When Bobby Bowden was hired to replace Jim Carlen in 1970, Klausing joined Bowden's Mountaineer staff as assistant head coach. He took on the role of defensive coordinator following WVU's defensive collapse in the 1972 Peach Bowl and remained in that position until Bowden left for Florida State following West Virginia's 13-10 Peach Bowl victory over N.C. State.
 
Klausing's defense that year limited Virginia Tech and Temple to just seven points and held the nation's second-leading rusher Tony Dorsett to just 107 yards and no touchdowns in the Mountaineers' unforgettable 17-14 victory over the Panthers at Mountaineer Field.
 
A week later, Dorsett exploded for a career-high 303 yards at Notre Dame.
 
Klausing, recalling West Virginia's great performance against Dorsett in 2005, asked his defensive ends one simple question.
 
"Can you run four yards as fast as Tony Dorsett can run eight yards?" Klausing said. "They said they thought they could. I wanted them to go straight up field and when they pitched to Dorsett, they were going to be there waiting for him."
 
There were there all afternoon to stop him.
 
Klausing's WVU defense also blanked a potent N.C. State offense featuring the Buckey twins and halfback Ted Brown in the second half in the Mountaineers' memorable 13-10 come-from-behind victory over the Wolfpack to cap a nine-win season for Bowden.
 
Sensing Bowden was likely going to make a move to Florida State at the end of the season, Klausing locked up the Carnegie Mellon head coaching position where he remained until 1985 when he joined Mike Gottfried's Pitt coaching staff for one season in 1986.
 
He returned to the high school ranks to coach Kiski Prep (Pa.) for seven years until his retirement in 1993.
 
Klausing resided in Indiana, Pennsylvania, during his retirement years and frequently returned to Morgantown for team get-togethers, most recently in 2015 for the Peach Bowl team's 40^th-year reunion.
 
He was a member of eight halls of fame, including the College Football Hall of Fame, in which he was inducted in 1998.