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Until the 1960s, the school was racially segregated for only white students.

Until the 1960s, the school was racially segregated for only white students.

==Football team==

==Football team==

The school has had a long and embarrassing history with its football team. In 1935, a group of Miami football supporters tried to hire [[Red Grange]] as coach. However, the move was vetoed by President [[Bowman Foster Ashe]], in part because of the $7,500 salary that Grange had requested,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scholar.library.miami.edu/umhistory/DisplaySubjects.php?DisplayPages&subject_id=Athletics&current_page=1|title=University of Miami Legacy Images|accessdate=December 29, 2012}}</ref> and there have been tensions with alumni over the management of the team ever since.

The school has had a long and embarrassing history with its football team.

 

In 1935, a group of Miami football supporters tried to hire [[Red Grange]] as coach. However, the move was vetoed by President [[Bowman Foster Ashe]], in part because of the $7,500 salary that Grange had requested,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scholar.library.miami.edu/umhistory/DisplaySubjects.php?DisplayPages&subject_id=Athletics&current_page=1|title=University of Miami Legacy Images|accessdate=December 29, 2012}}</ref> and there have been tensions with alumni over the management of the team ever since.

In the middle of the 1954 football season, the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] imposed two one-year penalties against Miami for providing transportation and tryouts to prospective players.<ref name="gustafson">{{cite news|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1069459/1/index.htm|title=Drive at Miami: Coach Andy Gustafson has the system and the men|last=Hickman|first=Herman|date=1955-04-11|work=[[Sports Illustrated]]|accessdate=December 29, 2012}}</ref>  As a result, Gustafson's 1954 squad was ineligible to play in a [[bowl game]]. Following the season, Gustafson decided to step down as head coach.

In the middle of the 1954 football season, the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] imposed two one-year penalties against Miami for providing transportation and tryouts to prospective players.<ref name="gustafson">{{cite news|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1069459/1/index.htm|title=Drive at Miami: Coach Andy Gustafson has the system and the men|last=Hickman|first=Herman|date=1955-04-11|work=[[Sports Illustrated]]|accessdate=December 29, 2012}}</ref>  As a result, Gustafson's 1954 squad was ineligible to play in a [[bowl game]]. Following the season, Gustafson decided to step down as head coach.

At the end of the 1978 football season (his second as head coach) Lou Saban resigned in the wake of a controversy concerning football players throwing an orthodox Jewish employee of the campus Jewish ministry into Lake Osceola, a lake on the campus.<ref name="Feldman 2004 17–18">{{cite book|last=Feldman|first=Bruce|title=Cane Mutiny: How the Miami Hurricanes Overturned the Football Establishment|publisher=[[New American Library]]|location=New York|year=2004|pages=17–18|isbn=0-451-21297-5|accessdate=December 29, 2012}}</ref>

At the end of the 1978 football season (his second as head coach) Lou Saban resigned in the wake of a controversy concerning football players throwing an orthodox Jewish employee of the campus Jewish ministry into Lake Osceola, a lake on the campus.<ref name="Feldman 2004 17–18">{{cite book|last=Feldman|first=Bruce|title=Cane Mutiny: How the Miami Hurricanes Overturned the Football Establishment|publisher=[[New American Library]]|location=New York|year=2004|pages=17–18|isbn=0-451-21297-5|accessdate=December 29, 2012}}</ref>

Through the 1990 football season, UM had played football games against the [[University of Notre Dame]] for 27 years; the rivalry featured two vastly different programs which earned the nickname "Catholics vs. Convicts". In 1990, the UM team lost to Notre Dame 29–20, and Notre Dame had decided to discontinue the series,<ref name="nd rivalry1">{{cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1990-10-18/sports/sp-3904_1_notre-dame|title=Great and Passionate Rivalry Will End Saturday With Miami–Notre Dame Game|date=1990-10-18|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|accessdate=2009-10-15}}</ref> feeling the intensity of the games had reached an unhealthy level.<ref name="cane mutiny">{{cite book|last=Feldman|first=Bruce|title=Cane Mutiny: How the Miami Hurricanes Overturned the Football Establishment|publisher=[[New American Library]]|location=New York|year=2004|isbn=0-451-21297-5|accessdate=December 29, 2012}}</ref>  The rivalry has been partially restarted since Notre Dame is a partial member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (though an independent in football) whereas Miami is a full member.

Through the 1990 football season, UM had played football games against the [[University of Notre Dame]] for 27 years; the rivalry featured two vastly different programs which earned the nickname "Catholics vs. Convicts". In 1990, the UM team lost to Notre Dame 29–20, and Notre Dame had decided to discontinue the series,<ref name="nd rivalry1">{{cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1990-10-18/sports/sp-3904_1_notre-dame|title=Great and Passionate Rivalry Will End Saturday With Miami–Notre Dame Game|date=1990-10-18|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|accessdate=2009-10-15}}</ref> feeling the intensity of the games had reached an unhealthy level.<ref name="cane mutiny">{{cite book|last=Feldman|first=Bruce|title=Cane Mutiny: How the Miami Hurricanes Overturned the Football Establishment|publisher=[[New American Library]]|location=New York|year=2004|isbn=0-451-21297-5|accessdate=December 29, 2012}}</ref>  The rivalry has been partially restarted since Notre Dame is a partial member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (though an independent in football) whereas Miami is a full member.