The second coach in Miami hockey history passed away late Tuesday. He was 72.
Bill Davidge, the RedHawks’ bench boss in 1985-89, was integral in transitioning men’s ice hockey to the varsity level from a club sport as an assistant under inaugural head coach Steve Cady.
Davidge played for Ohio State and joined Miami as a graduate assistant in 1977, earning a Master’s the following year.
Following his coaching career in Oxford, Davidge scouted for several teams, including Columbus, for which he was one of the team’s first employees prior to the Blue Jackets entering the league via expansion in 2000.
When Columbus hit the ice, Davidge transitioned to broadcasting, providing radio and television color commentary for nearly 20 years.
Davidge had suffered a stroke and fought multiple myeloma — a plasma cell cancer for which he received chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant — in recent years.
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