Steve Spurrier
Coach — born 1945
Steve Spurrier is a former American footballer and coach.
Steve Spurrier is an American Hall of Fame former college football quarterback and head coach whose three-decade career produced one Heisman Trophy (1966 at the University of Florida) and one NCAA Division I-A national championship as a head coach (1996 at the University of Florida) — making him one of only three people in college football history to win both the Heisman Trophy and the NCAA Division I-A national championship as a head coach. He was born Stephen Orr Spurrier on April 20, 1945, in Miami Beach, Florida. His father Graham Spurrier was a Presbyterian minister, and his mother Marjorie Spurrier was a homemaker.
His college football career at the University of Florida across 1964–1966 under coach Ray Graves produced his 1966 Heisman Trophy at age 21 (Florida's first Heisman Trophy in school history). His 1967 first-round NFL Draft third-overall selection by the San Francisco 49ers launched his 10-year NFL career.
His 1976 retirement from the NFL launched his college-football head-coaching career. His 1980 hiring as the head coach at his alma mater Duke University produced his early-career college-football head-coaching public profile. His 1989 hiring as the head coach at his alma mater University of Florida launched his 1990s and early-2000s SEC football head-coaching public profile.
His 1990–2001 Florida head-coaching tenure produced six SEC championships (1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000) and the 1996 NCAA Division I-A national championship (across which the Florida Gators defeated the Florida State Seminoles 52–20 in the 1997 Sugar Bowl). The 1996 championship was Florida's first NCAA national championship in football. His subsequent 2002–2004 NFL head-coaching tenure with the Washington Redskins, his 2005–2014 head-coaching tenure at the University of South Carolina, and his 2018 American Alliance of Football head-coaching tenure with the Orlando Apollos extended his American football coaching career. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2017. He married Jerri Spurrier in 1966, and the couple has four children.
His name Steve is the English short form of Stephen (from the Greek Stephanos meaning "crown"). Steve has been continuously among the most-popular American boys' names since 1880.
About the name Steve
Gender: Male · Origin: English
Abbreviation Of Steven And Stephen Often Used As An Independent Name. Stevie Is Also Used For Girls.