Jack Harding

Jack Harding

Biographical details
Born	(1898-01-04)January 4, 1898 Avoca, Pennsylvania
Died	February 24, 1963(1963-02-24) (aged 65) Miami, Florida
Playing career
Football
1924–1925	Pittsburgh
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1926–1936	St. Thomas (PA)
1937–1942	Miami (FL)
1945–1947	Miami (FL)
Basketball
1926–1937	St. Thomas (PA)
Baseball
1940	Miami (FL)
1959	Miami (FL)
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1948–1963	Miami (FL)
Head coaching record
Overall	103–69–12 (football) 119–56 (basketball) 16–14–1 (baseball)
Bowls	1–0
College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1980 (profile)

John Joseph Harding (January 4, 1898 – February 24, 1963) 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 (.624) record and led the Hurricanes to four seasons of eight or more wins (1938, 1941, 1945, 1946). After resigning from coaching football, he served as the athletic director at Miami for 15 years until his death from cancer, on February 24, 1963, in Miami, Florida.^[1]

Head coaching record[]

Football[]

See also[]

• List of college football head coaches with non-consecutive tenure

References[]

External links[]

• Jack Harding at the College Football Hall of Fame
• Jack Harding at Find a Grave