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Augie Bossu Day The Benedictine Community celebrates Augie Bossu Day on his birthday, May 5th! When Coach Bossu retired in 1994, he held the most wins by an Ohio head football coach. His impressive record in baseball makes him 1 of 2 Ohio coaches to register on the OHSAA all time wins list for football and baseball. He stayed on to be an assistant and freshmen football coach until 2005. He passed away at the age of 91 on January 1st, 2008.  Today, we want to return to the day Augie Bossu began his head coaching career for football at Benedictine. The Plain Dealer published this article on December 7th, 1954 announcing that Joe Rufus would become the first layman at Benedictine to be athletic director and that Augie Bossu would become head coach.  Joe Rufus had an impressive coaching record in Football himself, and is certainly famous for coaching