Does Mike McCarthy, Green Bay Packers head coach, look familiar?
If you are a Linfield College football fan, maybe he does. Did you see him in McMinnville?
McCarthy played for the Baker University (Kansas) Wildcats versus the Linfield Wildcats (Oregon) in the NAIA Div II 1986 national championship football game.
On a muddy field at McMinnville (Ore.) High School’s Wortman Stadium, Linfield won, 17-0. The game was played Saturday, Dec. 13, 1986.
A Pittsburgh native, McCarthy played the 1985 and 1986 seasons at Baker after attending Salem (W. Va.) College and Scottsdale (Ariz.) Community College. He was a tight end and team captain for Baker during the 1986 season.
According to statistics in a game story in the Dec. 14, 1986, Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard, McCarthy did not make a catch in the Baker-Linfield game.
Linfield is located in McMinnville, Ore., about 39 miles from Portland, Ore. Baker University is in Baldwin City, Kan., about 52 miles from Kansas City, Mo.
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Mike McCarthy’s Green Bay Packers Super Bowl XLV press conference - Feb. 1, 2011, quotes include…
When did you realize you wanted to be a head coach?
"When I was in college at Baker University, I had the opportunity to talk to our head coach at the time, Charlie Richard and our offensive coordinator Dan Harris.”
Mike McCarthy’ Green Bay Packers press conf. transcript - Jan. 27, 2011, quotes include …
Please speak about your time at Baker and Fort Hays and how that laid the foundation for you to become coach of a Super Bowl team.
“My experience at Baker University, I was around a great coach, knew it then, in Charlie Richard. He was very successful, was an excellent recruiter. When you took the field, you felt like you were the best prepared team, so those two years there, we had two very good football teams, and still have personal relationships still today back there. Dan Harris just retired as the athletic director, was the offensive coordinator and was also an excellent coach. He's a line coach.”
