At 20 years old, John Mitchell became the youngest coach in college football at the time, as well as Alabama's first African-American assistant coach.
Eddie Robinson Coach John Gagliardi Division 3 has 471 Coach Eddie Robinson Division 2 has 408 Coach Bobby Bowden Division 1 (major college teams) has 377
Pat Fitzgerald is the youngest person to ever become a head coach in NCAA Division 1-A history. He was just 31 when he became the head coach of the Northwestern Wildcats football team in 2006.
Fritz Pollard was the first African American quarterback in the NFL. He was also the first African American coach in the NFL.
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If by division one football you actually mean the Football Bowl Subdivision (at the time known as I-A), then FA Dry may be the first. He first became a head coach at Tulsa in 1972. That predates Willie Jeffries, who was the first African-American head coach at a I-A school, coaching at Wichita State in 1979. There have been many African American head coaches at the Historically Black Colleges and Universities, many of which are now at the Football Championship Subdivision (previously I-AA). Since Joe Paterno has had 111 wins vacated, Eddie Robinson is considered by the NCAA to be the winningest coach in division one football history, having started as the head coach of Grambling in 1941. Grambling is in the Southwestern Athletic Conference at the FCS level.
African American Division 1-A head football coaches in the 2008 season: 1) Ty Willingham - University of Washington 2) Sylvester Croom - Mississippi State University 3) Ron Prince - Kansas State University 4) Turner Gill - Buffalo University 5) Randy Shannon - University of Miami Norries Wilson is currently the head coach at Division 1-AA Columbia and is the first African American head football coach in Ivy League history. Other African Americans who have been head coaches at the college level are MacDaniel Singleton at Boston State College, Mark Garrett at Assumption, Floyd Keith at Rhode Island, Mel Mills at Becker College. This list is incomplete. As of 2006, the NCAA reported 16 African American head football coaches at its 616 affliated institutions.
Jim Miller - American football coach - was born in 1920.
John Murphy - American football coach - was born in 1932.
Jack Gregory - American football coach - was born in 1929.
Sean Ryan - American football coach - was born in 1972.
Tim Murphy - American football coach - was born in 1956.
Dave Smith - American football coach - was born in 1933.
David Walker - American football coach - was born in 1969.
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.
At 20 years old, John Mitchell became the youngest coach in college football at the time, as well as Alabama's first African-American assistant coach.
Ted Williams - American football coach - was born on 1943-11-17.