In football, Marvin Bass.Bass was head coach of the Gamecocks between 1961-1965 and compiled a 17-29-3 record over those five seasons.
The University of Florida's head football coach in 1906, their first season, was Jack Forsythe. Forsythe coached the team through the 1908 season and compiled a 14-6-2 record over the three seasons he was head coach.
Sylvester Croom who took over at Mississippi State for the 2004 season.
That was Claude Gilbert who was the head coach from 1973-1980 and who took over for Don Coryell when he became head coach of the St. Louis Cardinals. Gilbert was replaced after the 1980 season with Doug Scovil.
North Texas.Fry was head coach of North Texas between 1973-1978 and compiled a record of 40-23-3, going 19-3 his final two seasons there. He took over at Iowa in 1979.
football coach for St Joe Prep in the 1930's winning 5 Catholic League championships, then head coach for Holy Cross College with a famous win over #1 BC in 1942
At the age of 26 Vince started his coaching career as Assistant coach for the freshman team at St. Cecilia high school. He then took over the head coaching position three years later. After a long wait of six years he was promoted assistant coach of the varsity football team.
Jack Crowe started the 1992 season as head coach of the Arkansas football team but was fired after the first game which they lost to The Citadel. Defensive coordinator Joe Kines took over as head coach for the rest of the season. Kines went back to being the defensive coordinator in 1993 when Danny Ford became head coach.
No, an African American had coach has never won the national championship, and in fact, the first African American head coach to lead his team to a Bowl Game victory did not come until 2013. David Shaw coached Stanford to a Rose Bowl victory over Wisconsin at that time.
2000 Detroit Lions. He had a 4-3 record in 7 games as head coach after taking over for Bobby Ross.
Chuck Pagano is the current head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. He took over for Jim Caldwell at the end of the 2011 season.
Jim Harbaugh, who was a successful college coach at Stanford, took over the San Francisco 49ers in 2011. He is the brother of John Harbaugh, head coach of the Baltimore Ravens.