University of Delaware head coach Harold R. "Tubby" Raymond became just the ninth coach in college football history to win 300 games Nov. 10 as the Blue Hens posted a 10-6 Atlantic 10 Conference victory over Richmond at Delaware Stadium.

A crowd of 18,923 watched Raymond join Eddie Robinson, John Gagliardi, Joe Paterno, Bear Bryant, Bobby Bowden, Pop Warner, Amos Alonzo Stagg and Roy Kidd as the only head coaches to win 300 career games. Now in his 36th season at the helm of the Blue Hens, Raymond is just the fourth coach to win all 300 games at the same school, joining Robinson, Paterno and Kidd. Raymond's career mark now stands at 300-119-3.

Delaware players, including 18 seniors playing their final home game at Delaware Stadium, hoisted Raymond on their shoulders and paraded him around the field. Raymond, who turned 75 Nov. 14, later addressed the crowd.

"This was one of the most pressured situations in my life," Raymond said in the postgame news conference of his quest for 300 wins. "Everyone has been asking about it. It was nice to get it at home. It's such a wonderful thing. Delaware football has been my life, and I've been lucky to see a lot of good things happen. Delaware football is a family, and everyone of those kids who have played here and those who have coached here have contributed to this."

Raymond's Delaware football coaching record includes three national titles, 14 Lambert Cup trophies, 16 NCAA playoff appearances, six Yankee Conference/Atlantic 10 titles, four NCAA Coach of the Year awards and one Yankee Conference/Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year honor.

He was inducted into the state of Delaware Sports Hall of Fame (1993), received the Vince Lombardi Football Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award (1999) and was inducted into UD's Alumni Wall of Fame (1999). He served as president of the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) (1981) and was chairman of the AFCA Rules Committee (1982). During his career, he has won recognition as AFCA Region II-AA Coach of the Year and New York Football Writers Association, ECAC 1-AA Coach of the Year (both in 1992), ABC Sports College Division Coach of the Year (1979) and AFCA Kodak College Division Coach of the Year (1971 and 1972) and received the Governor's Medal for contributions to the state of Delaware (1971).

In 2000, he was recognized by Sports Illustrated as one of the top 100 sports figures of the 20th century in the state of Delaware.

Thirty-one of Raymond's 36 teams (not including the current year's record) have had winning records, and only 14 times has a Raymond-coached squad had fewer than eight victories in a season.

An accomplished painter, he does a portrait of a senior team member each week. His acrylic paintings have been featured on ABC's Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Sports Illustrated, CNN and Fox Sports.

Harold Rupert Raymond was born Nov. 14, 1926 in Flint Mich. He was given the name "Tubby" by schoolmates. However, the late football coach Bear Bryant of Alabama called Raymond "Napoleon."

After graduating from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in education, Raymond was an assistant football coach at University High School in Ann Arbor, Mich. In 1950-51, he became that school's head coach. He was a backfield coach at the University of Maine from 1952-53 and came to Delaware in 1954. He was the Blue Hens backfield coach from 1954-65 and also the Hens head baseball coach from 1956-1965. He was named UD's head football coach in 1966.

He earned his master's degree in human development at UD in 1966.