Wayne Hardin
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 23, 1926 Smackover, Arkansas |
| Died | April 12, 2017 (aged 91) Oreland, Pennsylvania |
| Alma mater | College of the Pacific |
| Playing career | |
| 1946–1948 | Pacific (CA) |
| Position(s) | Halfback, quarterback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1949 | Pacific (CA) (SA) |
| 1950–1951 | Ceres HS (CA) |
| 1952 | Pacific (CA) (backfield) |
| 1953–1954 | Porterville JC |
| 1955–1958 | Navy (assistant) |
| 1959–1964 | Navy |
| 1966 | Philadelphia Bulldogs |
| 1970–1982 | Temple |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 118–74–5 (college) 9–8 (junior college) |
| Bowls | 1–2 |
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College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 2013 (profile) |
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Irving Wayne Hardin (March 23, 1926 – April 12, 2017) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the United States Naval Academy from 1959 to 1964 and at Temple University from 1970 to 1982, compiling a career college football record 118–74–5. Hardin led Navy to appearances in the 1961 Orange Bowl and the 1964 Cotton Bowl Classic, and coached two Midshipmen to the Heisman Trophy, Joe Bellino in 1960 and Roger Staubach in 1963.
After leaving Navy, Hardin coached the Philadelphia Bulldogs of the Continental Football League, leading the team to a championship in 1966. Hardin was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2013.
Hardin was born in Smackover, Arkansas and attended high school in . He played college football at the College of the Pacific under Hall of Fame coach Amos Alonzo Stagg and his successor, Larry Siemering. Hardin won 11 varsity letters at Pacific before he graduated in 1950. He was inducted into the College of the Pacific's Athletics Hall of Fame in 1998.
After serving as a student assistant coach in 1949 at Pacific, Hardin began his professional coaching career in 1950 at Ceres High School in Ceres, California. There he coached football and basketball. Hardin returned to his alma mater, Pacific, in 1952 as the backfield coach under Ernie Jorge. He then moved on to Porterville College, a community college in Porterville, California, where in two seasons as head football coach, 1952 and 1953, he tallied a mark of 9–8. In 1955, Hardin was hired as an assistant football coach at the United States Naval Academy under Eddie Erdelatz.
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