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Nov 8, 2006 · It marked the end of the brilliant coaching career of Floyd (Ben) Schwartzwalder, head man of the Syracuse Orange for the past 25 years. He had retired, after a quarter of a century as the head coach at one school. Less than a dozen men rank in this category.
Sep 23, 2023 · Syracuse inducts former football coach Ben Schwartzwalder into its Ring of Honor. Updated: Sep. 23, 2023, 9:46 p.m. |. Published: Sep. 23, 2023, 7:27 p.m. Ben Schwartzwalder carried off the...
He is the all-time winningest coach in school history with an overall record of 153 wins, 91 loses and 3 ties. He also guided the Orangemen to seven bowl games and won four Lambert Trophies. Since 1993, the winner of the Big East Conference Syracuse-West Virginia football game receives the Ben Schwartzwalder Trophy.
Feb 12, 2008 · Floyd "Ben" Schwartzwalder is Syracuse's all-time winningest coach, having led Syracuse to 153 victories, including the 1959 National Championship. Schwartzwalder is the longest-tenured coach in the history of the Syracuse program, with 25 seasons spent on the Orange sidelines.
He was Coach of the Year and Syracuse was national champion in 1959. He developed a string of fine running backs - Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, Floyd Little, Jim Nance, Larry Csonka. His given name was Floyd Burdette Schwartzwalder, but he was universally known as Ben.
Schwartzwalder was also a hero of the D-Day invasion and several other important engagements of World War II. He played center at West Virginia University, despite weighing only 146 pounds, and was an all-campus wrestler in 1930 in the 155-pound weight class. He was captain of the football team in 1933. Oops something went wrong: 403.
Apr 29, 1993 · Ben Schwartzwalder, who produced a national championship, a Heisman Trophy winner and a string of great running backs in a 25-year coaching career at Syracuse, died Wednesday at 83....
