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Vic Fusia
Sport(s) Football
Biographical details
Born
(1916-11-21)November 21, 1916
Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania
Died January 18, 1991(1991-01-18) (aged 74)
Amherst, Massachusetts
Playing career
1930s Manhattan
1942 Jacksonville NAS

Position(s) Halfback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1948–1950 Indiana HS (PA)
1951–1954
Brown (backfield)
1955–1960
Pittsburgh (backfield)
1961–1970 UMass

Head coaching record
Overall 59–32–2 (college)
Bowls 0–1
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
5 Yankee (1963–1964, 1966–1967, 1969)
Awards
New England Coach of the Year (1964)


Victor M. Fusia (November 21, 1916 – January 18, 1991) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1961 to 1970. He compiled a 59–32–2 overall record and won five Yankee Conference championships.


Born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, Fusia was a 1938 graduate of Manhattan College and a Navy veteran of World War II. He coached five years in the Pennsylvania high school system in the 1950s and was an assistant coach at Brown and the Pittsburgh before becoming the head coach at Massachusetts.



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Year
Team
Overall
Conference Standing
Bowl/playoffs

UMass Redmen (Yankee Conference) (1961–1970)

1961

UMass
5–4 3–1 2nd

1962

UMass
6–3 4–1 2nd

1963

UMass
8–0–1 5–0 1st

1964

UMass
8–2 5–0 1st
L Tangerine

1965

UMass
7–2 4–1 2nd

1966

UMass
6–3 5–0 1st

1967

UMass
7–2 5–0 1st

1968

UMass
2–8 2–3 T–3rd

1969

UMass
6–3 5–0 1st

1970

UMass
4–5–1 3–1–1 2nd

UMass:
59–32–2 41–7–1
Total: 59–32–2

      National championship         Conference title         Conference division title or championship game berth


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