After the death of Johns Hopkins football coach Jim Margraff early this year, there wasn't an extraordinary amount of talk about the games his teams won despite the fact that he was the winningest football coach in school history.
Instead, those who knew Margraff reflected on the life he led and the thousands of people he influenced.
"There are two words that come to mind when I think of Coach [Margraff] -- humility and decency. He was a great teacher and a great coach and to be a great teacher, you have to have humility. Jim had that," Hopkins men's lacrosse coach Dave Pietramala said. "And that second word -- decency. Jim was simply a decent man, and I mean that as the highest compliment. There was a time in the 1930s, '40s, '50s, when it meant something special to be called a decent person, and Jim was a decent man in that very special sense."
