The Colorado College community mourns the loss of legendary coach and associate professor Frank Flood, who passed away early Tuesday at the age of 80.

Memorial services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26, at St. Mary's Cathedral, located in downtown Colorado Springs at 22 West Kiowa Street.   

Flood, who was inducted into the CC Athletics Hall of Fame as a member of its third class on March 1, 1997, served as former head football coach Jerry Carle's assistant and right-hand man for three decades before retiring in 1991.

It actually was Flood's off-the-cuff suggestion that prompted Carle to adopt the single-wing offense that carried the Tigers to a 46-7-2 record during a six-year span in the early 1970s.  

Flood also coached boxing and track, producing the school's first-ever track-and-field All-American in javelin thrower Marshall Griffith in 1969.  

Frequently a father figure for athletes and non-athletes alike, Flood was especially influential with minority students who came to him with any kind of problem.

The Frank Flood & Randy Bobier Endowed Scholarship, established in his honor shortly after his retirement, has been awarded annually since 1991 to a student athlete who qualifies for need-based financial aid and who “contributes to the ethnic and socio-economic diversity of the student body at CC.”