Cal State Fullerton Titans football The Cal State Fullerton Titans football team 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 - 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 . History . The Cal State Fullerton 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 . Entering the 1972 season , the Titans would move their home games from Anaheim Stadium to the Santa Ana Bowl , with Pete Yoder starting the season as the program ' s second all - time head coach . After completing a pair of 7 – 4 seasons , the Titans would suffer their first losing season following a 4 – 7 campaign in the 1974 season . It was during this year that Fullerton would make the move from the California Collegiate Athletic Association into the Pacific Coast Athletic Association ( now the Big West ) . For the 1975 season , Fullerton would hire former Pacific assistant coach Jim Colletto , as the third head coach in program history . During the Colletto era , the Titans would not have a winning season , with the lone bright spot of his tenure coming in 1978 with Obie Graves rushing for 1 , 789 total yards including 291 - yards in a 34 – 9 upset of Long Beach State . Colletto would be removed from his position following the 1979 season with Gene Murphy being announced as the program ' s fourth all - time head coach on December 16 , 1979 . Entering Murphy ' s first season , the Titans would move their home games to a temporary on - campus stadium , and continue to not see success on the field with losing seasons from the 1980 through the 1982 seasons . For the 1983 season , Fullerton would again move their home games , this time to Cerritos College in addition to making the 1983 California Bowl after winning their first conference championship . The Titans would build upon the successes in finishing the 1984 season again as conference champion with a record of 11 – 1 . Following the season , Murphy was named UPI West Coast Coach of the Year and the Titans would finish in the final top 20 UPI poll . The Titans would never again reach the highs of the 1984 season and would embark on a steady decline through the late 1980s and into the early 1990s . By the late 1980s , the program was in financial trouble with the Fullerton Academic Senate voting 24 – 7 to recommend disbanding the program . Although halted by then - university president Milton A . Gordon , on December 7 , 1992 , Fullerton announced that it would suspend the program effective immediately for a year , with the intention of returning to play at the Division I - AA level for the 1994 season . However the move to I - AA never occurred and Fullerton has been without football since 1992 . By 1995 , the notion of resurrecting the program began to take shape . In fall 1995 , the Fullerton Students Athletic Advisory Committee asked the student body in an election if they supported Titan football . At that time , 89 percent of respondents voted favorably for the reinstatement of football . The effort to resurrect the program continues to this day , complete with a petition to reinstate the football team . Although the Titans have not played a game since 1992 , Fullerton is still the NCAA record holder in several categories . These records include : both most fumbles and most fumbles lost for a single season with 73 and 41 respectively during the 1992 season ; the most kickoff returns per game with an average of 7 . 3 per game for the 1990 season ; the 10th highest number of rushing yards in a single game with 357 by Mike Pringle on November 4 , 1989 , against New Mexico State ; and being part of the fourth highest combined score in a tied game with their 41 – 41 contest against San Diego State on September 23 , 1989 . Head coaches . In the CFL . In addition to the players that competed in the NFL , there have been several former Titans that have had significant careers in the Canadian Football League . The three players of note include : Mike Pringle who is the league ' s all - time leading rusher , Damon Allen , the league ' s all - time leading passer and former all - time pro football passing leader with 72 , 381 passing yards , and Allen Pitts , the league ' s all - time leading receiver until 2008 when he was surpassed by Milt Stegall .