All-time results 1946 | 5-5
1948 | 6-2-2
Big Ten Co-Champions 1953 | 9-1, 5-1 (t-1st)
National Champions 1951 | 9-0
Head Coach: Biggie Munn Sept. 22 W 6-0 Oregon State Sept. 29 W 25-0 Michigan Oct. 6 W 24-20 Ohio State Oct. 13 W 20-14 Marquette Oct. 20 W 32-21 Penn State Oct. 27 W 53-26 Pittsburgh HC Nov. 10 W 35-0 Notre Dame Nov. 17 W 30-26 Indiana Nov. 24 W 45-7 Colorado
H 33,373 A 97,239 A 82,640 H 39,251 A 30,674 H 42,163 H 51,296 A 20,000 H 29,987
A 97,239 A 22,595 H 49,123 H 38,254 H 51,162 A 49,500 A 22,000 H 52,472 H 35,845
1954 | 3-6, 1-5 (t-8th)
Head Coach: Duffy Daugherty Sept. 25 L 10-14 Iowa Oct. 2 L 0-6 Wisconsin Oct. 9 W 21-14 Indiana Oct. 16 L 19-20 Notre Dame Oct. 23 L 13-27 Purdue HC Oct. 30 L 13-19 Minnesota Nov. 6 W 54-6 Washington St. Nov. 13 L 7-33 Michigan Nov. 20 W 40-10 Marquette
A 50,000 H 51,194 A 25,000 A 57,238 H 52,619 A 63,575 H 45,849 A 97,239 H 39,354
the university
www.msuspartans.com
One of the most popular coaches in the history of college football was Michigan State’s personable Duffy Daugherty. An undergraduate star for Syracuse, he was a member of Biggie Munn’s staff there in 1946 when State hired Munn. Daugherty served initially as line coach at MSU, tutoring such Spartan standouts as Don Coleman and Frank Kush. Then, following State’s 1954 Rose Bowl victory over UCLA, Munn stepped in as athletic director and named Duffy as head coach. Daugherty’s ’55 club went 9-1 and received the Big Ten’s Rose Bowl bid, defeating UCLA, 17-14. His greatest teams, though, came in 1965 and ’66 when those two star-studded squads posted a cumulative record of 19-1-1 and two Big Ten championships. The only loss was a 14-12 defeat at the hands of UCLA in the 1966 Rose Bowl and the lone tie was the monumental 10-10 “Game of the Century” vs. Notre Dame in ’66. Duffy’s 1965 Spartans were a defensive juggernaut and won the No. 1 ranking in the final UPI poll. During Duffy’s 19 seasons at MSU, 29 different players earned first-team All-America honors. The list included such stars as Earl Morrall, Sherman Lewis, George Webster, Clinton Jones, Gene Washington, Bubba Smith, Brad Van Pelt and Billy Joe DuPree. Daugherty’s individual honors included National Coach of the Year laurels in both 1955 and ’65, and induction into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1984. Duffy died in 1987 at the age of 72, in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Bowl History
Head Coach: Biggie Munn Sept. 27 W 27-13 Michigan Oct. 4 W 17-14 Oregon State Oct. 11 W 48-6 Texas A&M Oct. 18 W 48-7 Syracuse Oct. 25 W 34-7 Penn State HC Nov. 1 W 14-7 Purdue Nov. 8 W 41-14 Indiana Nov. 15 W 21-3 Notre Dame Nov. 22 W 62-13 Marquette
1954-72 MSU Record: 109-69-5
Honors & awards
National Champions 1952 | 9-0
Hugh Duffy Daugherty
Spartan history
Michigan A Mississippi State H Washington St. A Iowa State HC H Kentucky H Marquette H Santa Clara H Temple A Hawaii A
32,500 97,239 39,376 35,656 29,029 57,886 45,237 47,361 28,679
N 101,000
Spartan Records
1947 | 7-2
1950 | 8-1
Head Coach: Biggie Munn Sept. 23 W 38-13 Oregon State H A Sept. 30 W 14-7 Michigan Oct. 7 L 7-34 Maryland H Oct. 14 W 33-14 William & Mary HC H Oct. 21 W 34-6 Marquette H Oct. 28 W 36-33 Notre Dame A Nov. 4 W 35-0 Indiana H Nov. 11 W 27-0 Minnesota H Nov. 18 W 19-0 Pittsburgh A
ROSE BOWL Jan. 1 W 28-20 UCLA
2010 Recap
The most successful Spartan coach of all-time in terms of winning percentage (.857) is former Minnesota AllAmerican Clarence “Biggie” Munn. He came to MSC directly from Syracuse where he served as head coach for only one season. Despite an inauspicious 55-0 drubbing from Michigan in his Spartan debut, Munn quickly turned things around as the team ended the 1947 campaign with a 7-2 record. Workman-like progress continued the next two seasons, but then the Spartans burst onto the national scene in 1950, finishing in the Top 10 in the final wire service polls with an 8-1 mark that included victories over third-ranked Michigan and Notre Dame. Munn compiled a 27-1 worksheet over the next three years, winning back-to-back national championships in 1951 and ’52 with identical 9-0 records. In 1952, Munn earned national Coach of the Year honors from the American Football Coaches Association after the Spartans produced wins over three ranked opponents, including No. 17 Penn State, No. 8 Purdue and No. 6 Notre Dame. MSC ran its winning streak to 28-straight games in 1953 before losing at Purdue, 6-0. In their first season of competition in the Big Ten, the Spartans grabbed a share of the 1953 league championship with a 5-1 record. MSC posted its third consecutive 9-win season in 1953, thanks to its 28-20 victory over UCLA in the 1954 Rose Bowl. In seven seasons at MSC, Munn produced 18 All-Americans, including the great two-way tackle Don Coleman. He was voted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1959. About a week after his team’s Rose Bowl victory, Munn stepped down from coaching to assume the duties as MSC’s athletics director. He served in that capacity for 18 years, building the Spartans into a nationally prominent football program. In 1971, a stroke forced Munn to retire from MSU and four years later in 1975, he died at the age of 66.
A 97,239 H 29,992 H 32,080 H 33,268 H 43,495 H 36,986 H 50,965 A 22,239 A 16,000
A 47,125 A 61,594 H 51,049 H 51,698 A 35,000 H 51,108 A 82,328 H 52,324 H 42,170
Coaching staff
1947-53 MSU Record: 54-9-2
Head Coach: Biggie Munn Sept. 24 L 3-7 Michigan Oct. 1 W 48-7 Marquette Oct. 8 W 14-7 Maryland Oct. 15 W 42-13 William & Mary Oct. 22 W 24-0 Penn State HC Oct. 29 W 62-14 Temple Nov. 5 L 21-34 Notre Dame Nov. 12 L 20-25 Oregon State Nov. 19 W 75-0 Arizona
Head Coach: Biggie Munn Sept. 26 W 21-7 Iowa Oct. 3 W 21-0 Minnesota Oct. 10 W 26-19 Texas Christian Oct. 17 W 47-18 Indiana HC Oct. 24 L 0-6 Purdue Oct. 31 W 34-6 Oregon State Nov. 7 W 28-13 Ohio State Nov. 14 W 14-6 Michigan Nov. 21 W 21-15 Marquette
2011 Spartans
H 51,526 H 30,017 A 58,186 H 36,616 A 23,000 A 12,000 H 37,131 A 8,000 H 36,313 A 20,000
1949 | 6-3
Clarence “Biggie” Munn
Head Coach: Biggie Munn Sept. 27 L 0-55 Oct. 4 W 7-0 Oct. 11 W 21-7 Oct. 18 W 20-0 Oct. 25 L 6-7 Nov. 1 W 13-7 Nov. 8 W 28-0 Nov. 15 W 14-6 Nov. 29 W 58-19
Head Coach: Biggie Munn Sept. 25 L 7-13 Michigan Oct. 2 W 68-21 Hawaii Oct. 9 L 7-26 Notre Dame Oct. 16 W 61-7 Arizona HC Oct. 23 T 14-14 Penn State Oct. 30 W 46-21 Oregon State Nov. 6 W 47-0 Marquette Nov. 13 W 48-7 Iowa State Nov. 20 W 40-0 Washington St. Nov. 27 T 21-21 Santa Clara
2011 outlook
Head Coach: Charlie Bachman Sept. 28 W 42-0 Wayne State H Oct. 5 L 20-34 Boston College H Oct. 12 L 0-6 Mississippi State H Oct. 19 W 19-16 Penn State A Oct. 26 L 7-18 Cincinnati H Nov. 2 L 14-39 Kentucky A Nov. 9 L 7-55 Michigan A Nov. 16 W 20-0 Marquette HC H Nov. 23 W 26-14 Maryland H Nov. 30 W 26-20 Washington St. H
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