Dick Trachok

Richard "Dick" Trachok (born c. 1926^[1]) is an American former university athletic director and college football coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Nevada, Reno from 1959 to 1968. He amassed a 40–48–3 record during his tenure. Trachok served as the University of Nevada athletic director until 1986.

He attended the University of Nevada, Reno, where he played on the football team as a fullback in 1943 and as a halfback from 1946 to 1948.^[2][3][4]

Trachok coached the Reno High School football team, where The Deseret News described him as "one of Nevada's most successful high school gridiron coaches."^[5] During a coaching clinic held in 1957 at the University of Utah, he recommended that coaches keep their offenses and defenses simple.^[5]

In April 1959, Nevada hired Trachok as its head coach.^[1] In November 1960, Trachok canceled a six-hour flight to Denver in favor of a 32-hour bus ride after a plane crash killed sixteen players from California Polytechnic.^[6] The Nevada flight had been booked with Arctic-Pacific, the same carrier that Cal Poly had used.^[6] Trachok finished his coaching tenure with a 40–48–3 record, and took over as Nevada's athletic director. He held that post until 1986.^[7] In 1975, the university inducted Trachok into the Nevada Athletics Hall of Fame.^[7]

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