PENNY'S OBITUARY

MOREHEAD, Ky. – Former Morehead State football head coach Guy Penny passed away this week at the age of 90 in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
 
Visitation is Friday at the Woodfin Funeral Chapel in Murfreesboro. He is survived by his wife of 69 years, Kay B. Penny, along with three daughters, a brother, eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
 
One of the most successful coaches in Morehead State football program history, Penny (who led the Eagles from 1959-67) orchestrated the first Ohio Valley Conference championship in program history when MSU won a co-title in 1962. Four years later, Penny's Eagles won the outright OVC championship in 1966.
 
Penny was named OVC Coach of the Year in 1962 and 1966 and was the Kodak District 4 Coach of the Year in 1966.
 
He coached 15 student-athletes who were named All-OVC during his tenure, several of whom are now in the Morehead State Athletic Hall of Fame, as well as a pair of All-Americans. He was inducted into the MSU Athletic Hall of Fame in 1989. Penny was inducted into the Ohio Valley Conference Hall of Fame in 1996.
 
Penny was a native of Piedmont, Ala., where he was an all-state football star at Piedmont High School. He went on to earn a scholarship at the University of Mississippi and then embarked on his coaching career. He held positions at Collinsville (Ala.) and Geneva (Ala.) High Schools and UT Martin.
 
Penny graduated from Mississippi in 1950 and earned his Doctoral of Education from Southern Mississippi in 1969.
 
He was a physical education instructor and the chair of the physical education department at Middle Tennessee State from 1970 until retirement in 1993.