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Selvaggio and Stout acquired Ewbank’s coaching archives at an auction after Ewbank’s death in 1998.
In 2000, Selvaggio and Stout co-founded Miami’s Cradle of Coaches Archive, which consists of playbooks, game plans, scouting reports and other materials of the great coaches to come out of Oxford, including Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, Paul Brown and other former Redhawk coaches.
The name “Cradle of Coaches” refers to the deep lineage of successful coaches who have either started or gained fame from coaching at Miami.
“More than 100 Miami graduates were active in coaching or administrative work in the professional and collegiate levels,” according to their athletic website. “More than 30 of the men and women in the collegiate ranks are presently head coaches.”
Stout was contacted by NFL Films in 2015 about appearing in an “NFL Films Presents” episode about Ewbank, and a camera crew visited Stout’s home to interview him in July of that year.
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Selvaggio was interviewed the next day at the Cradle of Coaches Archive in Miami’s King Library.
“This is a great thrill for me,” Stout said. “I always heard about the great legacy of those great Miami coaches from my father. Through our bond came this passion for football history.”
Stout’s father, Gerald Stout, was a Miami graduate, who would work for the football program under then-coaches Woody Hayes and Ara Parseghian.
Gerald Stout was also a part of the original donation to Miami University and remained active until his death in 2008.
Steve Stout said that his father would be proud of the recognition the collection has received.
Steve Stout also assisted NFL Films on an episode of “A Football Life” featuring Paul Brown that aired on NFL Network in November of 2015.
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