Report: Schembechler Will Be Tiger President

Bo Schembechler, who retired as football coach at the University of Michigan after the Rose Bowl, will be named president of the Detroit Tigers, the Ann Arbor News reported in today’s editions.

Schembechler, 60, will be named the club’s 12th president Monday, sources familiar with the situation told the newspaper. He announced his resignation Dec. 13 as football coach, but remains Michigan’s athletic director.

He will succeed Jim Campbell, who joined the Tigers in 1949 and has been president since 1978. Campbell, 65, will remain with the club for one season as adviser to Schembechler, the News said.

Tiger owner Tom Monaghan named Schembechler to the club’s six-member Board of Directors on Jan. 12, 1989. Schembechler is a board member of Domino’s Pizza Inc., also owned by Monaghan.