Miami Hurricanes football - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Miami Hurricanes football team represents the University of Miami in the sport of American football. The Hurricanes compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The program began in 1.
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AP national championships (1. Miami is ranked fourth on the list of All- time Associated Press National Poll Championships, tied with Southern California and behind Notre Dame, Oklahoma, and Alabama.[4]Miami also holds a number of NFL Draft records, including most first round selections in a single draft and most consecutive drafts with at least one first round selection.[5] As of the 2. National Football League season, UM had the most players active in the NFL of any university in the nation, with 4. Two Hurricanes have won the Heisman Trophy and nine have been inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame. The team plays its home games at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.
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History[edit]Beginnings (1. UM began with just a freshman football team in 1.
Its first game was played on October 2. Rollins College before 3.
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Under the guidance of head coach Howard P. Buck, the freshman team posted a perfect 8–0 record in its inaugural season. Two of the wins were against the University of Havana,[8] one on Thanksgiving Day in Miami and one at Havana on Christmas Day.
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Miami's last home game at of the season featured a first: the first Hurricane football game played on New Year's Day against Howard at Miami's University Stadium.[9] Around this time, the team adopted the official nickname "Hurricanes," though the exact timing and origin of the name is unclear; some reports suggest it was in reference to the devastating power of the 1. Varsity competition began in 1. Miami beating Rollins 3. The team improved to 4–4–1 in 1. Buck to keep his job, and he was replaced prior to the 1.
J. Burton Rix, previously head coach at Southern Methodist.[8] Rix's arrival was funded by a group of local businessmen.[1. That off- season, the program, which competed as an independent during its first two years of existence, joined the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). Miami play its first varsity road game (a 1. Southwest Louisiana), and Rix led the team to its first winning season, going 3–2.[8] His tenure, however, was short- lived; off- campus financing for the program dried up in the wake of the 1.
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Ernest Brett replaced Rix, and in 1. Miami played Temple in its first game outside the South, losing 3. Owls in Atlantic City, New Jersey.[8] On October 3. Hurricanes played in one of the nation's first night games vs.
Bowden College in Miami.[1. Brett only lasted one year, and Tom Mc. Cann became the program's fourth head coach in 1. Under Mc. Cann, the football program experienced its most successful seasons to that point. After a difficult first year, Miami put together a winning record in 1.
Palm Festival (later to be known as the Orange Bowl), defeating Manhattan College 7–0 at Moore Park in Miami.[8] A 5–1–2 campaign and another Palm Festival berth followed in 1. Bucknell in the first Orange Bowl, 2. In 1. 93. 5, a group of Miami football supporters sought to hire Red Grange as coach. However, the move was vetoed by President Bowman Foster Ashe, in part because of the $7,5. Grange had requested.[1. Instead Irl Tubbs took over as head coach in 1.
Miami compiled an 1. Jack Harding era (1. After Irl Tubbs resigned following the 1. Iowa, Jack Harding was hired to serve as both head football coach and athletic director at Miami.[7]In 1. Hurricanes moved into the brand new Burdine Municipal Stadium (renamed the Orange Bowl in 1. Miami.[7] The following year, Miami played archrival Florida for the first time, defeating the Gators 1.
Florida Field, and won the program's first Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association title with an 8–2 record. The Hurricanes, though, left the SIAA just three years later, becoming an independent once again. Harding led the Hurricanes to eight- and seven- win campaigns in 1.
World War II service.[7]Eddie Dunn, a former star running back at Miami under Harding, stepped into the void and served as head coach during Harding's two- year war service. Though the Hurricanes won five games in Dunn's first season, they faltered in the second, winning just one game against seven losses and a tie.
Fortunes changed with Harding's return in 1. Hurricanes went 9–1–1 and returned to the Orange Bowl for the first time since 1. Holy Cross 1. 3–6 in a memorable game.[1. With the score tied 6–6 and only seconds remaining, Holy Cross quarterback Gene De. Filippo was intercepted by Miami's Al Hudson at the 1.
Hudson dashed 8. 9 yards the other way for the game- winning touchdown as time expired.[7][1. Harding's Hurricanes won eight games in 1.
Athletic Director. He hired Andy Gustafson as the new head coach, closing out a nine- year tenure in which Miami went 5. Andy Gustafson era (1.
One of Andy Gustafson's major innovations at Miami was the "drive series" offense, an option- oriented attack from the Split- T formation that relied on zone blocking and featured either a fullback fake or carry on every play.[1. Under Gustafson's tutelage, Miami produced its first All- American, Al Carapella, in 1.
Florida State and a 1. Clemson in the Orange Bowl.[7][1. The following season, Miami won eight games and went to a bowl game in consecutive years for the first time in school history, shutting out Clemson 1. Gator Bowl. In the middle of the 1. NCAA imposed two one- year penalties against Miami for providing transportation and tryouts to prospective players.[1. As a result, Gustafson's 1. Hurricanes, whose lone loss came 1.
No. 1. 4 Auburn, finished the season ranked ninth in the Coaches' Poll, the first top ten poll finish in school history.[7][1. Two years later, an 8–1–1 Miami team, led by team captain and All- American Don Bosseler, was under consideration to play in the Sugar Bowl, but the program's bowl- ban was not due to expire until ten days after the game, rendering it ineligible to participate.[1. The team finished the season ranked sixth in both the AP and Coaches' Polls.[7]In the later years of Gustafson's tenure, two- time All- America quarterback George Mira guided the Hurricanes to berths in the 1. Liberty Bowl and the 1. Gotham Bowl, where they lost both games.[2. In 1. 96. 3, the team struggled to a 3–7 record. Nevertheless, Mira, who set many of the school's passing records during his four years at Miami, graced the cover of Sports Illustrated and finished fifth in the Heisman Trophy voting as a senior.[7][2.
Following the season, Gustafson decided to step down as head coach and Charlie Tate, an assistant at Georgia Tech, was hired to replace him.[2. Gustafson has the Hurricane record for most years as head coach (1. Charlie Tate era (1.
Charlie Tate's first seasons at Miami were uneventful, with the team posting a 4–5–1 record in 1. Ted Hendricks, the only three- time All- American in school history, and the Hurricanes won eight games, earning a trip to the Liberty Bowl, where they defeated No.
Virginia Tech, 1. In December 1. 96. African- Americanwide receiver Ray Bellamy signed a letter of intent to play football at the university.[2. Miami returned to bowl play in 1. Bluebonnet Bowl to Colorado, 3.
The Hurricanes had a 5–5–0 season in 1. Tate resigned as head coach two games into the 1.
Kichefski, Curci, Elliot, and Selmer eras (1. Walt Kichefski, an assistant on Tate's staff, was elevated to interim head coach in the wake of Tate's resignation and coached the team to a 3–8 record in 1. He was not retained the following season and Fran Curci, a former All- American quarterback under Andy Gustafson, was chosen as the program's new head coach. Curci's 1. 97. 1 team improved by a game, but rival Florida Gators defeated Miami in a game that came to be known as "the Florida Flop.""[2.
With Florida leading 4. Gator defense allowed Miami to score so that Florida would get the ball back and quarterback John Reaves would have the opportunity to gain the 1. NCAA record for career passing yards.[2.
Miami, when the inadvertent gift of a "fifth down" by officials enabled the Hurricanes to edge Tulane in the waning moments of the game for a 2. Curci left the program at the conclusion of the season and was replaced by Pete Elliot.[7] Elliot, in turn, lasted two seasons and stepped down in 1. Miami's athletic director. Offensive coordinator.
Carl Selmer was named the program's fifth head coach in six years.[3. Under Selmer, a trend that started earlier in the decade continued, with home attendance declining every year.[2. After finishing 2–8 in 1. Selmer, citing concerns about dwindling attendance and the loss of local blue- chip recruits to other schools.[3.
Lou Saban era (1. After a national search, Lou Saban, formerly head coach of the NFL's Buffalo Bills, Denver Broncos, and Boston Patriots,[2. December 2. 7, 1. Miami only won three games in 1. Saban was able to put together a well- regarded recruiting class that included future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly of East Brady, Pennsylvania.[2. Kelly had been recruited by Penn State as a linebacker and agreed to come to Miami after Saban promised him he would play quarterback.[2. Among the other 3.
Saban's first recruiting class were 1. NFL players.[7]The Hurricanes improved by three games in Saban's second season and Ottis Anderson emerged as an NFL talent. Anderson became the first Miami running back to rush for 1,0.
Anderson set numerous school rushing records and was Miami's career rushing leader until 2. Duke Johnson.[7]After just two seasons as head coach, Saban resigned in the wake of a controversy concerning football players throwing a Jewish man into Lake Osceola, an on campus lake.[3. He left after the 1.
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