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Miami (OH) head coach Ara Parseghian was the 20th head coach of the Northwestern Wildcats football team and was the youngest coach in the Big Ten when he took the job at 32 years old in late 1955. [22] His Northwestern career began in 1956 with just one win in his first six games. [23]
Jones attended the University of Arkansas, where he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. [10] He was co-captain of Arkansas' 1964 national championship football team. He was an offensive lineman for College Football Hall of Fame coach Frank Broyles and a teammate of college football and NFL coach Jimmy Johnson, whom Jones hired as his first head coach after purchasing the Cowboys.
1896 Northwestern team. The Northwestern Wildcats football [42] team has evidence of organization as early as 1876, but evidence confirms that Northwestern football was played in 1882 as a group of Northwestern men played a "football heat" against a group of Lake Forest men. The Wildcats have since achieved an all-time high rank of No. 1 during ...
Following his dismissal from Northwestern, Fitzgerald became a parent volunteer for Loyola Academy's football team. [23] Fitzgerald's son, Ryan, was the team's starting quarterback for the 2023 season. [23] Loyola Academy beat Lincoln-Way East High School to win the 2023 IHSA Class 8A State Football Championship. [24]
James Arthur Burrow (born November 29, 1953), [1] commonly known as Jimmy Burrow, is an American former professional football defensive back in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and National Football League (NFL) and retired college football coach. He is the father of Joe Burrow. Burrow played college football at the University of Nebraska ...
He played professionally in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Calgary Stampeders, from 1976 to 1981, and in the United States Football League (USFL) for the Los Angeles Express, in 1983. Burleson is the father of four sons, including National Football League (NFL) wide receiver Nate Burleson and National Basketball Association (NBA ...
Wilson started playing football with his father and brother at the age of four, and played his first organized game for the Tuckahoe Tomahawks youth football team in sixth grade. [6] [10] Wilson's great-great-grandfather was enslaved to a Confederate colonel and was freed after the American Civil War. [11]
This is a list of seasons completed by the Northwestern Wildcats football team of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Since the team's creation in 1882, the Wildcats have participated in more than 1,100 officially sanctioned games, including 9 bowl games.