Changes

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.

 

The school has had a long and embarrassing history with its football team, even prior to becoming a national powerhouse.

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 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.

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) and Miami is a full member in all sports.

 

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.

In 1994, Tony Russell, a former UM academic advisor, pleaded guilty to helping more than 80 student athletes, 57 of whom were football players, falsify Pell Grant applications in exchange for kickbacks from the players themselves. The scandal dated all the way back to 1989 and secured more than $220,000 in federal grant money. Federal officials later said that Russell had engineered "perhaps the largest centralized fraud ... ever committed" in the history of the Pell Grant program.<ref name="Wolff">{{cite news | title=Why the University of Miami should drop football | accessdate=2006-11-11 | url=http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1006688/index.htm | publisher=CNNSI.com | date=1995-06-12}}</ref><ref>{{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|pages=131–33, 144, 156–57, 166}}</ref>  

In 1994, Tony Russell, a former UM academic advisor, pleaded guilty to helping more than 80 student athletes, 57 of whom were football players, falsify Pell Grant applications in exchange for kickbacks from the players themselves. The scandal dated all the way back to 1989 and secured more than $220,000 in federal grant money. Federal officials later said that Russell had engineered "perhaps the largest centralized fraud ... ever committed" in the history of the Pell Grant program.<ref name="Wolff">{{cite news | title=Why the University of Miami should drop football | accessdate=2006-11-11 | url=http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1006688/index.htm | publisher=CNNSI.com | date=1995-06-12}}</ref><ref>{{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|pages=131–33, 144, 156–57, 166}}</ref>