32 Facts About Howard Schnellenberger

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Howard Leslie Schnellenberger was an American football coach with long service at both the professional and college levels.

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Howard Schnellenberger held head coaching positions with the National Football League's Baltimore Colts and in college for the University of Miami, University of Oklahoma, University of Louisville, and Florida Atlantic University.

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Howard Schnellenberger won a national championship with Miami in 1983.

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Howard Schnellenberger is famous for having recruited Joe Namath to Alabama for Bear Bryant in 1961.

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Howard Schnellenberger was born to German-American parents, Leslie and Rosena Howard Schnellenberger, in the tiny hamlet of Saint Meinrad, Indiana.

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Howard Schnellenberger graduated from Flaget High School in Louisville, Kentucky, where he played football, basketball and baseball before earning a scholarship to the University of Kentucky.

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Howard Schnellenberger played college football as an end for the Kentucky Wildcats, and was named a 1955 All-American by the Associated Press and Newspaper Enterprise Association.

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Howard Schnellenberger then played professionally for 2 seasons with the CFL Toronto Argonauts.

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Howard Schnellenberger subsequently worked as an assistant coach at Kentucky under head coach Blanton Collier in 1959 and 1960.

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In January 1961, Howard Schnellenberger joined the coaching staff of the Alabama Crimson Tide as an assistant to head coach Bear Bryant.

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Howard Schnellenberger left Alabama in early 1966 to take a job in the National Football League as offensive ends coach of the Los Angeles Rams under George Allen.

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Howard Schnellenberger helped coach the Dolphins to their undefeated 1972 season and victory in Super Bowl VII.

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Howard Schnellenberger signed a three-year contract to succeed John Sandusky as head coach of the Baltimore Colts on February 14,1973.

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Howard Schnellenberger was reunited with general manager Joe Thomas, both of whom had been colleagues with the Dolphins.

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Howard Schnellenberger joined a team in the midst of an influx of younger players.

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Howard Schnellenberger returned to the Dolphins coaching staff the following year and remained there until he was offered the head coaching job at the University of Miami.

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In 1979, Howard Schnellenberger arrived to a University of Miami program that was struggling.

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Under his "State of Miami" plan, Howard Schnellenberger's teams took the best from the three-county area around the city, went after the state's best, then aimed at targets among the nation's elite recruits; it became a model of how to recruit in college football.

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Howard Schnellenberger coached Miami to its first national championship in 1983, defeating Nebraska in the Orange Bowl.

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Howard Schnellenberger was replaced as head coach of the Hurricanes by Jimmy Johnson.

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Howard Schnellenberger was interviewed about his time at the University of Miami for the documentary The U, which premiered December 12,2009, on ESPN.

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Howard Schnellenberger received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1984.

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Howard Schnellenberger was inducted into the University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame in 1993.

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In 1985, Howard Schnellenberger returned to his hometown to coach another struggling program, the University of Louisville Cardinals.

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Howard Schnellenberger inherited a situation that was as bad, if not worse, than what he'd inherited at Miami.

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Howard Schnellenberger recalled in a 2012 interview that his departure was a direct result of the impending creation of Conference USA:.

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Howard Schnellenberger was hired to replace him on December 16,1994.

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Howard Schnellenberger was able to raise $13 million in pledges, lobbied the state legislature, and by the time then-FAU President Anthony Catanese asked him to find a coach in 1999, Schnellenberger selected himself.

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Howard Schnellenberger married Beverlee Donnelly of St Johns, Quebec, in May 1959; they had three sons.

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Howard Schnellenberger was known for his gravelly baritone voice and was known for smoking a trademark pipe, but he gave it up after he found out his son was diagnosed with cancer.

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Howard Schnellenberger was famous for his colorful press conference quips, so much so that the Louisville Eccentric Observer ran a feature called "SchnellSpeak of the Week".

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Howard Schnellenberger died on March 27,2021, eleven days after his 87th birthday.