DULUTH — Packed like sardines inside the family’s Ford Country Squire station wagon during the mid-1970s, James (Jimmy) Malosky Jr., and his three siblings Lisa, Linda and Tamme grew up spending many a Saturday morning traveling all over the state to watch their dad, James Sr., coach the Minnesota Duluth football team.
The trips, amazingly, never required an actual map, as the longtime Bulldog head coach had his own way of guiding his wife Lilah to the venue. “The map my mom used to get to games was a napkin — my dad would draw on a napkin and leave it on the kitchen counter for my mom,” Lisa Malosky recalled. “He’d leave to go to the bus and on the counter would be the map to wherever we were going—the name of the highways, get to the city, and then Lilah, you’re on your own.
” Oftentimes, the trips included Karen and David Stromme, who grew up just two doors down from the Maloskys on Chester Park Drive. “She’d have six of us in there and we thought it was the best thing ever,” she remembered. ADVERTISEMENT UMD football was a part of Malosky, Jr.
's life from the beginning up until he died on Monday, June 17, of cardiac arrest at the age of 58 at his home in Houston. Fittingly, a Celebration of Life is planned at the stadium bearing his family’s name on July 13 at UMD’s Malosky Stadium. Malosky Sr.
, died in 2011. “UMD football was just part of the legacy, part of the life, part of who he was and who he is,” Lisa said. Duluth’s homegrown quar.
