Sad news for longtime Notre Dame football fans broke Monday. Gerry Faust, who coached the Irish from 1981 to 1985, has died at age 89.

High school and college football fans are mourning the loss of Gerry Faust, the former head coach at Moeller High School, University of Notre Dame and University of Akron who died at age 89. Faust was born in Dayton, Ohio, and played quarterback for the Flyers. He led Moeller to a record of 178-23-2 as the Crusaders' head coach from 1962 to 1980.