Event Date: January 10th, 1983
Event Description: Wranglers Name Coach
Source: United Press International
Doug Shively, a defensive specialist with nine years experience in the NFL, was named Monday head coach of the Arizona Wranglers of the new United States Football League. Shivley, 44, signed a three-year contract with the Wranglers.
He had been linebacker coach for the past six seasons with the Atlanta Falcons and previously worked three years with New Orleans. At New Orleans, Shivley worked with Harry Hulmes, now chief operating officer of the Wranglers.
“It's a challenge to me to be involved with a football team from the ground up,” said Shively. He added there were not a lot of jobs that could have persuaded him to leave Atlanta.
His immediate task, he told a news conference, will be to hire a staff of six assistants and to help sign players taken in last week's USFL draft. Shivley has less than three weeks to do that as USFL clubs will begin practicing for their spring season about Feb. 1.
Shively, a native of Lexington, Ky., graduated from Kentucky in 1959 after lettering three years as an end. He was co-captain of the Wildcats in his senior year. Before he reached the pro coaching ranks, Shively was an assistant at five colleges.
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