Murray Warmath
In 1960, Warmath led the Minnesota Golden Gophers to a share of the Big Ten Conference title, an appearance in the Rose Bowl, and a national championship, the program's most recent to date.Despite fans throwing garbage on his lawn and talk from Gopher boosters that the University should buy out the last two years of his contract,[2][3] Warmath would survive the storm and the following season the Gophers won the Big Ten title, with an 8–1 record, and were declared national champions by the Associated Press and United Press International after the regular season was completed.With the national exposure of his bowl appearances, Warmath was able to recruit other top black athletes including future NFL stars Bobby Bell, Carl Eller, and Aaron Brown.Ironically, the year Warmath won the wire service polls national championship, The University of Mississippi, Warmath's archrival at Mississippi State, only narrowly lost the AP championship vote[5], but was declared the Football Writers Association of America national champion after it won the Sugar Bowl and all the bowl games were completed.Warmath stayed in that role until 1978 when he took a job with the Minnesota Vikings as an assistant coach, a position he held for two seasons before becoming a regional scout for the team.