What is Jack Lengyel?
[[File:Jack Lengyel.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Lengyel in 2008]] '''Jack Robert Lengyel''' (born 1935) is an American software executive and former [[American football|football]] coach, [[lacrosse]] coach, and college athletics administrator. Lengyel was born in [[Akron, Ohio]]. Lengyel was the head football coach at the [[College of Wooster]] from 1966 to 1970 and at [[Marshall University]] from 1971 until 1974, having a [[college football]] record of 33–54. At Marshall, he took over the [[Marshall Thundering Herd football|Thundering Herd football]] program after the [[Southern Airways Flight 932]] plane crash that killed nearly the entire team in 1970. Lengyel was the [[athletic director]] at [[California State University, Fresno]] from 1983 to 1986, at the [[University of Missouri]] from 1986 to 1988, and at the [[United States Naval Academy]] from 1988 to 2001. He was the interim athletic director at [[Temple University]] in 2002, at [[Eastern Kentucky University]] from 2002 to 2003, and at the [[University of Colorado Boulder]] from 2004 to 2005. In the 2006 movie ''[[We Are Marshall]]'', is based on the Marshall plane crash and Marshall's [[1971 Marshall Thundering Herd football team|1971 team]] where he is played by [[Matthew McConaughey]]. ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} *[http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=600&ATCLID=89615 Jack Lengyel hiring press release] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001414/http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=600&ATCLID=89615 |date=2016-03-04 }} by Colorado athletics {{DEFAULTSORT:Lengyel, Jack}} [[Category:1935 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American football players]] [[Category:American football coaches]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Akron, Ohio]] {{US-sports-bio-stub}}