May 11, 2000
EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State University will induct Frank Kush into its Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday, Sept. 8, 2000. The class, the first inducted since 1996, includes the former Arizona State head football coach and eight others.
An anchor in MSU's defensive line during its national championship season of 1952, Frank Kush was an All-America pick as a senior guard by the Associated Press, Look Magazine, New York News, Fox Movietone, Athletic Publications and All-Catholic. A three-time letterwinner for Biggie Munn, he won the Duffy Daugherty Award in 1952 and participated in the 1953 Senior Bowl and North-South Game. He enjoyed a successful stint as head coach at Arizona State (1958-79) where he was named the National College Coach of the Year in 1975 and the conference coach of the year six times. Kush coached the East-West game, the Hula Bowl and the Senior Bowl. After 25 years at ASU, Kush moved on to coach the Hamilton Tiger Cats in the Canadian Football League in 1981. In 1982, he was named the head coach of the Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. Kush changed leagues in 1984, when he became coach of the Arizona Outlaws of the USFL. He was inducted into the National Football Foundation College Hall of Fame in 1995 and is also a member of ASU's Hall of Distinction. Kush was named to the Lansing State Journal's MSU Centennial Super Squad Pre-Big Ten era list as a lineman in 1996 and was inducted into the Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame in 1998.