John Joseph Harding 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.
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Miami Hurricanes baseball
The Miami Hurricanes baseball team is the college baseball program that represents the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. Since 1973, the program has been one of college baseball's elite with 25 College World Series appearances, winning four national championships and advancing to the NCAA regionals a record 44 consecutive years, from 1973 to 2016. Miami has won 29 NCAA Regional Titles, hosted 27 NCAA Regionals, and in each of their four national championship runs they were an NCAA Regional Host.
Prior to becoming head coach of the University of Miami baseball team in 1956, Jimmie Foxx (left), played Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, and Philadelphia Phillies. In 1940, he was the second player in Major League Baseball history (after Babe Ruth in 1929) to hit over 500 career home runs.
Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field, the home field for Miami Hurricanes baseball, on the campus of the University of Miami, 2007
Jim Morris, head coach of the Miami Hurricanes baseball team from 2004 to 2018, led the University of Miami to two College World Series championships in 1999 and 2001.