JUST IN: Harbaugh joins an exclusive group that includes national champions and hall-of-famers

Harbaugh joins an exclusive group of national champions and Hall of Famers. Harbaugh is only the fifth of the 12 to return after losing as a player and will aim to match the likes of Bob Stoops and John Robinson in winning their first trip to Pasadena as head coaches.

Harbaugh is only the third player/coach with Michigan ties to appear in the Rose Bowl, and only the second to do so as a member of the Wolverines. Pete Elliot was a Michigan athlete who later led California and Illinois to the granddaddy of them all as a head coach. Bump Elliott, Pete’s brother, led the Wolverines to the Rose Bowl as both a player and a coach.

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The following is a list of everyone who has ever played in the Rose Bowl, as well as head coach Jim Harbaugh (Michigan).

As a player, he was 0-1 with a 22-15 loss to Arizona State in 1987.

 

TBD as a coach

 

Bret Bielema (Wisconsin, Iowa)

As a player, he was 0-1; in 1991, he was defeated by Washington, 46-34.
As a coach, he is 0-2*; he lost 21-19 to TCU in 2011 and 45-38 to Oregon in 2012 (Wisconsin qualified for a third Rose Bowl under Bielema in 2013, but he resigned before the game to take the head coaching position at Arkansas).

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Rick Neuheisel (UCLA, Seattle)

As a player, he went 2-0, defeating Michigan 24-14 in 1983 and Illinois 45-9 in 1984.

 

As a coach, he is 1-0, having defeated Purdue 34-24 in 2001.

 

Bob Stoops (Oklahoma, Iowa)

As a player, he was 0-1 with a 28-0 loss against Washington in 1982.

 

As a coach, he is 0-1; in 2003, he defeated Washington State 34-14.

 

UCLA’s Terry Donahue

As a player, he went 1-0 and defeated Michigan State 14-12 in 1966.

 

As a coach, he went 3-1, defeating Michigan 24-14 in 1983, Illinois 45-9 in 1984, Iowa 45-28 in 1986, and Wisconsin 21-16 in 1994.

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John Robinson (USC, Oregon)

As a player, he was 0-1 with a 10-7 loss against Ohio State in 1958.

 

As a coach, he was 4-0; he defeated Michigan 14-6 in 1977; he defeated Michigan 17-9 in 1979; he defeated Ohio State 17-16 in 1980; and he defeated Northwestern 41-32 in 1996.

 

Pete Elliott (Illinois, California, and Michigan)

As a player, he was 1-0; he defeated USC 49-0 in 1948 (Michigan).

 

 

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As a coach, he was 1-1; he lost 38-12 to Iowa in 1959 (California) and 17-7 to Washington in 1964 (Illinois).

 

Elliott (Michigan) has been bumped.

As a player, he was 1-0; in 1948, he defeated USC 49-0.

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As a coach, he was 1-0, defeating Oregon State 34-7 in 1965.

 

Tommy Prothro (UCLA, Duke, Oregon State)

As a player, he was 0-1; he was defeated by Oregon State, 20-16, in 1942 (Duke).

 

As a coach, he was 1-2; he lost 35-19 to Iowa in 1957 (Oregon State) and 34-7 to Michigan in 1965 (Oregon State). – In 1966, UCLA defeated Michigan State 14-12.

 

Chuck Taylor (Stanford University)

As a player, he was 1-0, defeating Nebraska 21-13 in 1941.

 

As a coach, he was 0-1 with a 40-7 loss against Illinois in 1952.

 

USC’s Jess Hill

As a player, he went 1-0, defeating Pittsburgh 47-14 in 1930.

 

As a coach, he was 1-1; he defeated Wisconsin 7-0 in 1953 and lost to Ohio State 20-7 in 1955.

 

Oregon’s Charles ‘Shy’ Huntington

As a player, he was 1-0; in 1917, he defeated Penn 14-0.

 

As a coach, he was 0-1 with a 7-6 loss to Harvard in 1919.

 

 

 

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