Find a Grave Howard Schnellenberger (1934-2021)

Find a Grave Howard Schnellenberger (1934-2021)
Howard Schnellenberger
Birth 16 Mar 1934
Saint Meinrad, Spencer County, Indiana, USA
Death 27 Mar 2021 (aged 87)
Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
Burial Details Unknown
Football Coach

He was best known for his stint as the head coach of the University of Miami (Florida) Hurricanes from 1979 to 1983, where he led them to a national championship in 1983. He also was the head coach of the National Football League’s Baltimore Colts from 1973 to 1974. From 1952 to 1956, he played football collegiately at the University of Kentucky and was a AP All-American in 1955.

After graduating from Kentucky, he worked there as an assistant coach under Blanton Collier from 1959 to 1960. In 1961, he joined the University of Alabama as offensive coordinator and helped the Crimson Tide win three national championships during his five year stay there. He joined the National Football League’s Los Angeles Rams in 1966 as an ends coach and served there until 1969.

In 1970, he joined Don Shula’s staff with the Miami Dolphins as the offensive coordinator and helped led the team to a perfect 17-0 season in 1972. He became the head coach of the Baltimore Colts the following season, in 1973, and coached them until the early part of the 1974 season. After he was dismissed by the Colts, he returned to the Dolphins as the offensive coordinator in 1975. He remained with the Dolphins until 1979, when he was named the head coach of the University of Miami (Florida).

He remained the head man of the Hurricanes for the next five years and brought the program to national prominence by leading them to a national championship in 1983. He left the Hurricanes in 1983 to take over a Miami team in the fledging United States Football League, but things didn’t work out and he was out of a job. In 1985, he was named the head coach of the University of Louisville, where he would serve for the next ten years. He went on to coach at both the University of Oklahoma and Florida Atlantic University before retiring from coaching in 2011.