American football player and coach

Barry Switzer

Barry Layne Switzer is an American former college and professional football coach. He served for 16 years as head football coach at the University of Oklahoma and four years as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He won three national championships at Oklahoma, and led the Cowboys to win Super Bowl XXX against the Pittsburgh Steelers. He has one of the highest winning percentages of any college football coach in history, and is the second of only three head coaches to win both a college football national championship and a Super Bowl: the others are his Cowboys predecessor Jimmy Johnson and Pete Carroll with the Seattle Seahawks.

Born

1937

October 5

Died

Living

Era

1930s

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Barry, in brief

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Key dates

1937 Born

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816 King Louis the Pious is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope.
869 The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to depose patriarch Photios I.
1143 With the signing of the Treaty of Zamora, King Alfonso VII of León and Castile recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.

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The world in 1937

When Barry arrived

april 1 Aden becomes a British crown colony.
april 1 The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
april 12 Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
april 26 Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by the German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria.

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Avraham Adan 1926–2012 Israeli general (died 2012) Bill Willis 1921–2007 American football player and coach (born 1921) Brian O'Nolan 1911–1966 Irish author (born 1911) Chevalier d'Eon 1728–1810 French diplomat and spy (born 1728) Glynis Johns 1923–2024 British actress and singer (born 1923) Kenneth D. Taylor 1934– Canadian businessman and diplomat (died 2015) Louis II of Anjou (died 1417) 1377– Michael Andretti 1962– American race car driver Neil Peart 1958–2020 Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer (born 1952)

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Also born in 1937

Abner Haynes 1937–2024 American football player (born 1937) Alain Badiou 1937– French philosopher and academic Alice Coltrane 1937–2007 American pianist and composer (died 2007) Bill Cosby 1937– American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter Billy Meier 1937– Swiss author and photographer Birju Maharaj 1937–2022 Indian dancer, composer, singer and exponent of the Lucknow "Kalka-Bindadin" Gharana of Kathak dance (died 2022) Bobby Charlton 1937–2023 English footballer and manager (died 2023) Carlos Lamarca 1937–1971 Brazilian captain (died 1971) Colin Powell 1937–2021 American general and politician, 65th United States Secretary of State (died 2021)

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