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Don Coryell (born October 17, 1924) is a former American football coach, who coached in the NFL first with the St. Louis Cardinals from 1973-1977 and then the San Diego Chargers from 1978-1986. He is well-known for his innovations to football's passing offense, and was one of the pioneers of the true West Coast Offense.

Prior to the NFL, Coryell coached 12 season with the San Diego State University Aztecs, using the philosophy of recruiting only junior college players. The 1966, 1968 and 1969 Aztec teams compiled unbeaten records.

Coryell is the first coach ever to win more than 100 games at both the collegiate and professional level. He won three consecutive Western Division titles (1979, 1980, 1981) as the San Diego Chargers head coach and reached the playoffs four times. With Dan Fouts as quarterback, "Air Coryell" was perhaps the greatest passing offense in NFL history.

At San Diego State, Coryell helped develop a number of quarterbacks for the NFL, including Don Horn, Dennis Shaw and Brian Sipe, and also coached two players who later became actors: Fred Dryer and Carl Weathers. Coryell's development of future coaches included John Madden, Joe Gibbs, Jim Hanifan, Ernie Zampese, and Al Saunders.

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