By Alabama NewsCenter Staff
Patrick Fain Dye, who coached Auburn University’s football team from 1981 until 1992, was born on Nov. 6, 1939, in rural Blythe, Georgia. Dye played football at the University of Georgia and earned All-SEC and All-American honors. After completing his military service to fulfill an ROTC obligation, Dye went to work for coach Paul “Bear” Bryant at the University of Alabama as a defensive coach. Alabama won two national championships and five SEC championships during Dye’s tenure, leading him to his first job as a head coach at East Carolina University. After a 48-18-1 record, he spent one year at the University of Wyoming and took a team that had a losing record the previous season to a 6-5 record. Next stop, Auburn, where his teams went 99-39-4 and became consistently competitive with the Crimson Tide. Dye led the effort to play the Iron Bowl in Auburn every other year after the contract to play the game annually at Legion Field ended in 1988.
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