Gerry Faust, the former football coach Notre Dame famously hired straight from the high school ranks, died Monday. He was 89. From 1981-85, Faust paced the Fighting Irish to a 30-26-1 record before resigning at the end of his fifth season.

High school and college football fans are mourning the loss of Gerry Faust, the former head coach at Moeller High School, University of Notre Dame and University of Akron who died at age 89. Faust was born in Dayton,

The man who built a small school football program on Montgomery Road into a national high school powerhouse by the mid-1970s died Monday at age 89. Gerry Faust was Moeller High School's first head coach he was so successful that he made the unprecedented move of going from the high school ranks straight to the University of Notre Dame in the fall of 1980.