Article: Longtime Mayo football coach dies at 70.(Obituary)

Byline: Steve Webb

Sep. 11--Ralph Pucci was excited about coaching football again. The longtime Rochester Mayo High School coach had signed on to coach his grandson's youth football team. On Saturday, while coaching that Rochester youth team in its first game of the season, Pucci collapsed and died of a heart attack. He was 70 years old. He had a heart attack in 1990, although he had not had any serious problems since then. Pucci coached football at Mayo for 26 years, 22 of them as the school's head coach. His overall win-loss record was 106-95 from 1972 to 1993. He was one of several longtime coaches at Mayo, a coaching fraternity that forged ...

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