Vic Fusia | |
Birth Date: | 13 November 1913 |
Birth Place: | Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Death Place: | Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Player Years1: | 1934–1937 |
Player Team1: | Manhattan |
Player Years2: | 1942 |
Player Team2: | Jacksonville NAS |
Player Positions: | Halfback |
Coach Years1: | 1948–1950 |
Coach Team1: | Indiana HS (PA) |
Coach Years2: | 1951–1954 |
Coach Team2: | Brown (backfield) |
Coach Years3: | 1955–1960 |
Coach Team3: | Pittsburgh (backfield) |
Coach Years4: | 1961–1970 |
Coach Team4: | UMass |
Overall Record: | 59–32–2 (college) |
Bowl Record: | 0–1 |
Championships: | 5 Yankee (1963–1964, 1966–1967, 1969) |
Awards: | New England Coach of the Year (1964) |
Victor H. Fusia (November 13, 1913 – 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. He resigned after the 1970 season to become the school's staff associate in charge of sports promotion.[1] He remained with the school until his retirement in 1982. Fusia died of a heart attack on January 18, 1991.[2]