Baldwin-Wallace's all-time winningest football coach passed away Saturday. Bob Packard, who retired after the 2001 season, was 64.

"He touched many, many lives in his illustrious coaching career and will be dearly missed," Jim Tressel, former Baldwin-Wallace quarterback and current Ohio state coach said in a statement. "The Tressel family, specifically, lost a much loved friend who had an important impact on our lives."

Packard was a player and later an assistant coach under Lee Tressel and was the Yellow Jacket offensive coordinator when the team won the 1978 national championship.

"I have been truly blessed," Packard said after his retirement in 2002, of his career that spanned 34 years as a player, assistant coach and then head coach at Baldwin-Wallace. "I always knew that I wanted to be a football coach. How many people get a chance to get their dream job at a place they love?

In his final season, Packard recorded his 156th career victory to surpass Lee Tressel – his coach and mentor – for the most coaching wins in Baldwin-Wallace history. A scholar-athlete, quarterback and safety, Packard participated in 285 victories; 58% of all wins to that time in the school's football history that dates to 1893.