death_date coach_team birth_date death_place player_years coach_sport cfbdwid bowl_record admin_years image name cfbhof_year birth_place sport cfbhof_id admin_team coach_years overall_record player_sport article_title player_team
24 february 1963 st. miami -lrb- fl -rrb- st. thomas -lrb- pa -rrb- miami thomas -lrb- fl -rrb- miami -lrb- fl -rrb- -lrb- pa -rrb- miami -lrb- fl -rrb- 4 january 1898 miami , florida 1924 -- 1925 football basketball baseball 970 1 -- 0 1948 -- 1963 jack harding.jpg jack harding 1980 avoca , pennsylvania football , basketball , baseball 30068 miami -lrb- fl -rrb- 1926 1926 -- 1937 1940 1959 -- 1936 1937 -- 1942 1945 -- 1947 103 -- 56 -lrb- basketball -rrb- 16 -- 14 -- 1 -- -lrb- baseball -rrb- 69 -- 12 -lrb- football -rrb- 119 football jack harding
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jack harding

jack harding -lrb- january 4 , 1898 -- february 2 , 1963 -rrb- was an american football , basketball , and baseball player , coach , and college athletics administrator .
he served as the head football coach at st. thomas college -- now the university of scranton -- from 1926 to 1936 and at the university of miami from 1937 to 1942 and 1945 to 1947 , compiling a career college football record of 103 -- 69 -- 12 .
harding was also the head basketball coach at st. thomas from 1926 to 1937 , amassing record of 119 -- 56 .
he was the head baseball coach at miami in 1940 and 1959 , tallying a mark of 16 -- 14 -- 1 .
harding was inducted into the college football hall of fame as a coach in 1980 .
during his two stints coaching football at miami , harding compiled a 54 -- 32 -- 3 -lrb- .624 -rrb- record and led the hurricanes to four seasons of eight or more wins -lrb- 1938 , 1941 , 1945 , 1946 -rrb- .
after resigning from coaching football , he served as the athletic director at miami for 15 years until his death in 1963 .
