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2010FBMG-History.Pdf NATIONAL TITLES PITT’S NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS YEAR RECORD COACH SE LEC TOR 1976 12-0 Majors Unan i mous 1937 9-0-1 Sutherland AP, DS, LS, IFA, WS, TFT 1936 8-1-1 Sutherland IPA, TFT 1934 9-1 Sutherland Davis 1931 8-1 Sutherland Davis 1929 9-1 Sutherland Davis 1918 4-1 Warner Unan i mous 1916 8-0 Warner Unan i mous 1915 8-0 Warner Davis NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS Dunkel System (1929-cur rent) a power index rating system devised by Dick Dunkel and syn di cat ed to 1. Notre Dame 17 news pa pers around the nation. 2. USC 13 Football Writers As so ci a tion of Amer i ca (1954-current) Yale 13 chosen by a five-man com mit tee rep re sent ing 4. Princeton 12 membership. 5. Alabama 11 Helms First Interstate Bank Athletic Foun da tion 6. PITTSBURGH 9 (1889-1982) orig i nal ly found ed in 1936 as Helms Athletic Foundation and changed in the early 1970s to RATING SYSTEMS Citizens Savings Athletic Foun da tion be fore current name was adopted in 1981. To settle countless ar gu ments, Sports Il lus trat ed in 1970 researched the first and only complete and wholly Illustrated Football An nu al (1924-41) an “azzi ratem” ac cu rate list ever com piled of college foot ball’s myth i cal system pub lished in this highly re gard ed magazine by national champions. Ev ery rec og nized authority that ever William F. Boand. presumed to name a No. 1 was included: Litkenhous System (1934-1984) a “dif fer ence-by-score” Associated Press (1936-current) poll of sports writ ers method syn di cat ed by Fred Litkenhouse and his brother and broad cast ers. Edward. Parke H. Davis Ratings (1889-1935) cho sen by Davis, a National Football Foun da tion and Hall of Fame (1959- player at Princeton in 1889 and a former coach 1995) chosen annually by com mit tee rep re sent ing at Wis con sin, Amherst and Lafayette, and first published membership. in the 1934 Spalding’s Foot ball Guide. Tony Dorsett and John Majors led Pittsburgh to its last national The Football Thesaurus (1927-58) sys tem devised by championship in 1976. Dickinson System (1924-40) chosen by Uni ver si ty Duke Houlgate and published in book of same title. The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was devised in of Illinois eco nom ics professor Frank G. Dickinson; based United Press International (1950-1995) poll of 35 col - 1998 to determine a national champion for college on system that awarded var i ous point totals for wins lege coaches. (Became the USA Today coaches poll.) over teams with winning or non-win ning records. football. The arrangement matches the country’s two Williamson System (1932-63) system of syn di cat ed top-rated teams against each other in a title game. power ratings chosen by Paul Williamson, a geologist Participating bowls include the Fiesta, Orange, Rose and and member of the Sugar Bowl com mit tee. Sugar. In addition to those four games, a BCS National Championship Game will be played at one of the bowl sites, which began for the 2006 season. 148 MEDIA INFORMATION 2010 PREVIEW COACHING STAFF PANTHER The University of Pittsburgh has won nine national championships — the most of any Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) program in the East and the sixth best ever. Pitt’s national champion teams not only ranked as the best in the land in that given year, but in many cases were among the elite teams in college football history. I Under the direction of Head Coach John Majors in 1976, Pitt completed perhaps the most miraculous turnaround in college football history by rolling to a 12-0 record and claiming the school’s ninth national title. The flawless record was a stark contrast to five seasons prior, when the Panthers went 1-10. The 1976 Panthers were lauded as the 17th greatest college team of all-time by Sporting News. I The legendary Jock Sutherland coached Pitt to five national titles during his coaching tenure. Sutherland’s 1937 unit ranked as the best team in the land with a 9-0-1 record. Among the Panthers’ vanquished opponents that year: Penn State (28-7), Notre Dame (21-6), Nebraska (13-7), Wisconsin (21-0) and West Virginia (20-0). The tie? A 0-0 deadlock with Fordham. I Under Glenn “Pop” Warner, Pitt won three national championships in four years. Considered one of the greatest coaches in football history, Warner directed the Panthers to titles in 1915, 1916 and 1918. During that period, Pitt won 30 straight games. Sports Illustrated trumpets the Panthers’ 1976 championship following a victory over Georgia I Perhaps Pitt’s greatest team ever didn’t win a national title. The Panthers’ 1980 team finished second in both (27-3) in the Sugar Bowl. major polls with an 11-1 record, its lone blemish an October loss at Florida State. Although Pitt PROFILES finished second in both the Associated Press and United Press International polls, The New York Times Computer Poll ranked the Panthers as the best team in the country. An amazing 12 players from that squad were selected in the NFL draft the following spring, including three first-rounders. I Pitt has finished second in a major poll three times. It has ranked in 2009 SEASON IN REVIEW the top four 10 times. Marshall Goldberg and Coach Jock Sutherland helped Pittsburgh RECORD BOOK to national championships in 1936 and 1937. M PITT HISTORY PRO FOOTBALL THIS IS PITT John Majors following the Jan. 1, 1977 Sugar Bowl win over Georgia. 149 SPECIAL AWARDS Pitt players have captured college JOHN W. HEISMAN MEMORIAL TROPHY 1976 Tony Dorsett Awarded annually to the outstanding college football player by the Downtown Athletic football’s most prestigious awards, Club of New York. including the Heisman Trophy, LOMBARDI AWARD 1980 Hugh Green Presented each year to the outstanding col lege lineman or linebacker by the Rotary Club Walter Camp Award, Maxwell of Hous ton. Award, Outland Trophy, Lombardi OUTLAND TROPHY Award and the Biletnikoff Award. 1980 Mark May Presented each year by the Football Writ ers Association of America to the out stand ing col le giate interior lineman. BILETNIKOFF AWARD 2000 Antonio Bryant, 2003 Larry Fitzgerald Awarded annually to the nation’s top collegiate receiver by the Tallahassee Quarterback Club. MAXWELL AWARD 1976 Tony Dorsett, 1980 Hugh Green Highlights the top college player in the nation and is presented by the Maxwell Club of Phil a del phia. WALTER CAMP AWARD 1976 Tony Dorsett, 1980 Hugh Green (first defensive play er to win the award), 2003 Larry Fitzgerald (first sophomore to win the award) Presented by the Walter Camp Football Foun da tion of New Haven, Conn., to the college player of the year. Hugh Green with the Maxwell Award Larry Fitzgerald with the Walter Camp Award Biletnikoff Award winner Antonio Bryant 150 PITT AND THE HEISMAN TROPHY MEDIA INFORMATION 2010 PREVIEW COACHING STAFF PANTHER Legendary tailback Tony Dorsett was selected as the winner 1976 1937 of the Heisman Trophy in 1976, the same season he led the 1. Tony Dorsett Pittsburgh 1. Clint Frank Yale Panthers to the national title with a 12-0 record. While 2. Ricky Bell Southern California 2. Byron White Colorado Dorsett is Pitt’s lone winner of the Heisman, the Panthers 3. Rob Lytle Michigan 3. Marshall Goldberg Pittsburgh 4. Terry Miller Oklahoma State 4. Alex Wojciechowicz Fordham have had eight total players finish in the top five in the 5. Tom Kramer Rice 5. Joe Kilgrow Alabama final balloting. Pitt players have finished in the top 10 of the Heisman voting 14 times. 1975 OTHER TOP 10 HEISMAN FINISHES 1. Archie Griffin Ohio State BY PITT PLAYERS: 2003 2. Chuck Muncie California Matt Cavanaugh (seventh, 1977) 1. Jason White Oklahoma 3. Ricky Bell Southern California Mike Ditka (sixth, 1960) 2. Larry Fitzgerald Pittsburgh 4. Tony Dorsett Pittsburgh Bill Fralic (sixth, 1984; eighth, 1983) 3. Eli Manning Mississippi 5. Joe Washington Oklahoma Edgar “Special Delivery” Jones (seventh, 1941) Dan Marino (ninth, 1982) 4. Chris Perry Michigan 1938 5. Darren Sproles Kansas State 1. Davey O’Brien TCU 1987 2. Marshall Goldberg Pittsburgh 1. Tim Brown Notre Dame 3. Sid Luckman Columbia 2. Don McPherson Syracuse 4. Bob MacLeod Dartmouth 3. Gordon Lockbaum Holy Cross 5. Vic Bottari California 4. Lorenzo White Michigan State 5. Craig “Ironhead” Heyward Pittsburgh PROFILES 1981 1. Marcus Allen Southern California 2. Herschel Walker Georgia 3. Jim McMahon Brigham Young 4. Dan Marino Pittsburgh 5. Art Schlichter Ohio State 2009 SEASON IN REVIEW 1980 1. George Rogers South Carolina 2. Hugh Green Pittsburgh 3. Herschel Walker Georgia 4. Mark Herrmann Purdue 5. Jim McMahon Brigham Young RECORD BOOK M PITT HISTORY Heisman Trophy winner Tony Dorsett PRO FOOTBALL THIS IS PITT Larry Fitzgerald earned numerous honors in 2003, winning the prestigious Walter Camp and Biletnikoff Awards. He additionally was the Heisman Trophy runner-up, becoming, at the time, the highest finishing sophomore in the history of the award. Fitzgerald (second from right) is pictured with fellow 2003 Heisman finalists (from left to right) Jason White of Oklahoma, Eli Manning of Mississippi and Chris Perry of Michigan. 151 ALL-AMERICANS The following list of Pitt’s First Team All-Americans was YEAR NAME POS. com piled from various sourc es, including the NCAA Football 1927 Bill Kern T 1927 Gil bert Welch# B Guide, and consists of players who were first-team selections 1928 Mike Getto* T on one or more of the All-Amer i can teams.
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