Howard Schnellenberger

Date of birth	March 16, 1934
Place of birth	Louisville, Kentucky
Sport	Football
College	Florida Atlantic University
Title	Head coach
Record with Team	28-30
Overall Record	128-107
Coaching Stats	College Football DataWarehouse
School as a player
1952-1956	University of Kentucky
Position	Tight end
Coaching positions
2001-present 1995 1985-1994 1979-1983	Florida Atlantic University University of Oklahoma University of Louisville University of Miami

Howard Schnellenberger (born March 16, 1934) is an American football coach at both the professional and college level. He is currently married to Mrs. Beverlee Schnellenberger and is head coach of Florida Atlantic University. He previously held head coaching positions with the University of Oklahoma, University of Louisville, University of Miami, and the Baltimore Colts. He has also worked extensively as an assistant coach at the college and pro levels, including being a part of the staff of the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins. Schnellenberger is also famous for recruiting Joe Namath to the University of Alabama for Bear Bryant in 1961. March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in leap years). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... Louisville redirects here. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... Florida Atlantic University, also commonly referred to as FAU or Florida Atlantic, is a coeducational state university located in Boca Raton, Florida, USA. The university has six additional satellite campuses in Florida; located in the cities of Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, Port St. ... The head coach in sports coaching is the coach who is in charge of the other coaches. ... The University of Kentucky, also referred to as UK, is a public, co-educational university located in Lexington, Kentucky. ... The tight end (TE) is a position in American football on the offensive team. ... Florida Atlantic University, also commonly referred to as FAU or Florida Atlantic, is a coeducational state university located in Boca Raton, Florida, USA. The university has six additional satellite campuses in Florida; located in the cities of Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, Port St. ... The University of Oklahoma, often called OU or Oklahoma, is a coeducational public research university located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. ... The University of Louisville (also known as U of L) is a public, state-supported university located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. ... The University of Miami (also known as UM or just The U) is a private university founded in 1925 with its main campus in the city of Coral Gables in metropolitan Miami, Florida, in the United States. ... March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in leap years). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... NFL logo For other uses of the abbreviation NFL, see NFL (disambiguation). ... Florida Atlantic University, also commonly referred to as FAU or Florida Atlantic, is a coeducational state university located in Boca Raton, Florida, USA. The university has six additional satellite campuses in Florida; located in the cities of Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, Port St. ... The University of Oklahoma, often called OU or Oklahoma, is a coeducational public research university located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. ... The University of Louisville (also known as U of L) is a public, state-supported university located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. ... The University of Miami (also known as UM or just The U) is a private university founded in 1925 with its main campus in the city of Coral Gables in metropolitan Miami, Florida, in the United States. ... There have been two unrelated American football teams called the Baltimore Colts based in Baltimore, Maryland. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... City Miami Gardens, Florida Other nicknames The Fins, The Fish Team colors Aqua, Coral and Navy Head Coach Cam Cameron Owner Wayne Huizenga General manager Randy Mueller Mascot T. D. League/Conference affiliations American Football League (1966-1969) Eastern Division (1966-1969) National Football League (1970–present) American Football Conference... Joseph William Namath (born May 31, 1943), also known as Broadway Joe, was an American football Hall of Fame quarterback in the American Football League and National Football League during the 1960s and 1970s. ... The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA or colloquially as Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship campus of the University of Alabama System. ... Image:Bear V. LSU.jpg Paul Bear Bryant prepares his team to play the LSU Tigers in Legion Field in the late 1970s. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ...

Schnellenberger was an All-American as a player at the University of Kentucky and worked as an assistant coach there under head coach Blanton Collier. There he joined the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Schnellenberger also served as offensive coordinator under his college coach Bear Bryant at Alabama, helping Alabama to win three national championships in 1961, 1964 and 1965 before leaving in 1966 to take a job in the NFL as offensive coordinator of the Los Angeles Rams then being hired by Don Shula in 1970 to become the offensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins, parlaying the success of Miami's 1972 perfect season into becoming the new head coach of the Baltimore Colts in 1973. All-American, a Broadway musical with book by Mel Brooks, music by Charles Strouse, and lyrics by Lee Adams, opened in New York on March 19, 1962, and played 80 performances. ... The University of Kentucky, also referred to as UK, is a public, co-educational university located in Lexington, Kentucky. ... Blanton Long Collier (born July 2, 1906, Millersburg, Kentucky; died March 22, 1983, Houston, Texas) was an American football coach who led the University of Kentucky (1954-1961) and Cleveland Browns (1963-1970). ... Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity (ΠΚΑ) is an international, secret, social, Greek-letter, college fraternity. ... Look up fraternity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An offensive coordinator typically refers to a coach on a football team in the National Football League (or at others levels of American football) who is in charge of the offense. ... Image:Bear V. LSU.jpg Paul Bear Bryant prepares his team to play the LSU Tigers in Legion Field in the late 1970s. ... The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA or colloquially as Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship campus of the University of Alabama System. ... The Bear Bryant Trophy, the AP national championship trophy Division I-A football is the only NCAA-sponsored sport without an organized tournament to determine its champion. ... The St. ... Donald Francis Shula (born January 4, 1930 in Grand River, Ohio) is a former professional football coach for the National Football League. ... City Miami Gardens, Florida Other nicknames The Fins, The Fish Team colors Aqua, Coral and Navy Head Coach Cam Cameron Owner Wayne Huizenga General manager Randy Mueller Mascot T. D. League/Conference affiliations American Football League (1966-1969) Eastern Division (1966-1969) National Football League (1970–present) American Football Conference... There have been two unrelated American football teams called the Baltimore Colts based in Baltimore, Maryland. ...

Schnellenberger's Colts went 4-10 in his one full season but managed to pull an upset on the heavily favored Dolphins towards the end of the 1973 season. After the Colts started the 1974 season 0-3, Schnellenberger was fired and replaced by Joe Thomas. He returned to the Dolphins coaching staff the following year and remained there until being offered the head coaching job at the University of Miami. Joe Thomas (born on December 4, 1984 in Brookfield, Wisconsin) is an offensive tackle for the Wisconsin Badgers. ...

Schnellenberger arrived to a Miami program that was on its last legs, with the program having almost been dropped by the university just a few years prior. Drawing from the boot camp methodology learned from mentors Bryant and Shula and a pro-style pass-oriented playbook not yet the norm in Division 1 college football, Miami developed a passing game that allowed them to have advantage over teams not equipped to defend such an attack. By his third season at Miami, the team had finished the season in the AP Poll top 25 twice--something that had not happened there since 1966. Boot Camp is a software assistant made available by Apple Computer that assists users in installing Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (Home, Professional, and Media Center Editions only, not Tablet PC Edition) on Intel-based Macintosh computers. ... Division 1 was the second level in the league system of Swedish football between 1987 and 1999. ... A college football game between Colorado State University and the Air Force Academy. ... The Associated Press (AP) Poll, along with the USA Today Coaches Poll, ranks the top 25 NCAA Division I college football and basketball teams, weekly. ...

He coached Miami to a National Championship in 1983, defeating Nebraska in the 50th Orange Bowl. In all he has 20 years of head coaching experience and a 126-98-3 record at the college level. Following his championship at the University of Miami, Schnellenberger departed for the USFL where he was to become head coach for what was to be a South Florida team (a relocated Washington Federals franchise). That job never materialized, however, and Schnellenberger never coached a USFL game. The Nebraska Cornhuskers (often abbreviated to Huskers) is the name given to several sports teams of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. ... The Orange Bowl is an annual college football game that is usually played on January 1 in the Miami, Florida metro area, in the United States. ... The United States Football League was a professional American football league that played three seasons between 1983 and 1985, in the process presenting the rival National Football League with its greatest competitor since the 1960s version of the American Football League. ... Orlando Renegades was a professional American Football team that played in the United States Football League in the mid 1980s. ...

While at the University of Louisville, Schnellenberger took a moribund program on the verge of being dropped to 1-AA status to two bowl victories, one of which was an unprecedented 34-7 thrashing of the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 1991 Fiesta Bowl, capping a 10-1-1 season and the school's first-ever national ranking (11). The University of Louisville (also known as U of L) is a public, state-supported university located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. ... The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA, or colloquially as Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. ... The Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Tostitos tortilla chips (a Frito-Lay product), is a United States college football game played annually since 1971. ...

Schnellenberger left Louisville in 1995 to take the job as head coach at Oklahoma. He lasted only one year there, as the Sooners struggled to a 5-5-1 record (including a shutout lost to in-state rival Oklahoma State. Schnellenberger abruptly resigned after that season and has been notoriously and uncharacteristically tight-lipped about his tenure there ever since. There have been allegations that Schnellenberger would often appear inebriated at Oklahoma team practices and would often deny his players access to water--a practice allegedly learned from his mentor, Bear Bryant.[1] The University of Oklahoma (OU) is an institution of higher learning located in Oklahoma. ... Oklahoma State University Logo The Oklahoma State University System comprises of five educational instututes across Oklahoma. ...

After a few years out of the limelight, Schnellenberger resurfaced in 1998, when he was named director of football operations for Florida Atlantic University, with the task of building a football program from scratch. He spent most of the next year raising funds for the program, and the FAU board of regents approved adding football in 1999. Schnellenberger at that time was named the first head coach for FAU football. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Florida Atlantic University, also commonly referred to as FAU or Florida Atlantic, is a coeducational state university located in Boca Raton, Florida, USA. The university has six additional satellite campuses in Florida; located in the cities of Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, Port St. ...

After two additional years of fundraising, recruiting and practice, FAU football formally began on September 1, 2001. After playing four years at the Division 1-AA level, with their biggest success being a trip to the semifinals of the 2003 1-AA playoffs, FAU moved to the Sun Belt Conference and Division 1-A level in 2005, a goal that had been one of Schnellenberger's primary objectives upon building the program. The Sun Belt Conference is a college athletic conference that has been affiliated with the NCAAs Division I since 1976. ...

External links

• Biography at Collegesports.com