Stan Sheriff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Stan Sheriff

American football player and coach, college athletics administrator

Date of Birth: 24-Apr-1932

Place of Birth: Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

Date of Death: 16-Jan-1993

Profession: American football player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Stan Sheriff

  • Bruce Stanley Sheriff (April 24, 1932 – January 16, 1993) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.
  • He played college football at California Polytechnic State University from 1950 to 1953 and professionally in the National Football League (NFL) with the Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns between 1954 and 1957.
  • Sheriff served as the head football coach at the University of Northern Iowa from 1960 to 1982, compiling a record of 129–101–4.
  • The football field inside the UNI-Dome, Northern Iowa's football stadium, is named Sheriff Field in his honor.
  • Sheriff was then the athletic director at the University of Hawaii at Manoa from 1983 until his death in 1993.
  • He died on January 16, 1993, in Honolulu, Hawaii, after suffering a heart attack at Honolulu International Airport.
  • The Stan Sheriff Center, the home venue for Hawaii's basketball and volleyball teams, was renamed in his honor in 1998.

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