Cal State Fullerton Titans football | |
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First season | 1970 |
Last season | 1992 |
Head coach |
Gene Murphy (final coach) 13 year, 59–89–1 (.399) |
Stadium | Titan Stadium (Cal State Fullerton) |
Seating capacity | 10,000 |
Field surface | Grass |
Location | Fullerton, California |
Conference | Big West |
All-time record | 107–150–3 (.417) |
Bowl record | 0–1–0 (.000) |
Colors | Navy Blue, White, and Orange |
The Cal State Fullerton Titans football program represented California State University, Fullerton from the 1970 through 1992 seasons. The Titans originally competed as a member of the California Collegiate Athletic Association from 1970 to 1973 before moving to the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (now the Big West) in 1974 where they remained through the 1991 season. The Titans would compete in their final year as an I-A Independent prior to the program being disbanded. Fullerton played its home games at multiple stadiums throughout their history with the most recent being Titan Stadium, in Fullerton, California.
The CSUF Titans football team traces its roots to 1969 when in May, former USC assistant coach Dick Coury was hired as the program's first head coach. The team would win their inaugural game against Cal Poly Pomona by a score of 31–0 on September 19, 1970, and play to a 0–0 tie in their inaugural home game against Cal Lutheran at Anaheim Stadium. Following moderate success in the inaugural 1970 season with a record of 6–4–1, the 1971 season was marked with tragedy when a plane crash on November 13, 1971, resulted in the deaths of three Titan assistant coaches: Joe O'Hara, Dallas Moon and Bill Hannah. Just two weeks following the incident, Fullerton played before their largest ever home crowd of 60,415 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum against the Grambling State University Tigers.