Vic Miranda

Vic Miranda
Florida Gators
Position Guard
Career history
College Florida (19571960)
Bowl games
High school North Miami
Personal information
Born: Miami, Florida
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight 198 lb (90 kg)
Career highlights and awards

Victor Russell "Vic" Miranda was a college football player and insurance executive.[1] He was a two-way lineman for coaches Bob Woodruff and Ray Graves' Florida Gators football teams.[2] A native of Miami,[3] Miranda faced assault charges as a freshman.[4] Miranda was selected All-SEC and AP Honorable Mention All-America in 1960,[5][6] a year in which his defense helped spark the Gators to a defeat of Baylor in the Gator Bowl.[7] The Gators halted a 75-yard drive by Baylor on the half-yard line in the first quarter, setting the stage for two second quarter touchdowns.[8] Larry Libertore was the game's MVP. Miranda also won the school's coveted Fergie Ferguson Award.[9] He was inducted into the University of Florida Athletics Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great." Miranda was also a prominent booster for the Gators program, once president of boosters.[10]

See also

References

  1. "A Home With No Hard Feelings". tribunedigital-sunsentinel.
  2. "Uf Can Make History ...and Bury It". tribunedigital-sunsentinel.
  3. George Solomon (September 11, 1958). "Miranda Figures In Gator Plans". The Miami News.
  4. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19570517&id=f7AzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YuoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2801,560569&hl=en
  5. "University of Florida Athletics".
  6. "Miranda On 1st Team, Libertore on Second". Daytona Beach Morning Journal. November 30, 1960.
  7. "The Greatest Moments of Florida Gators Football".
  8. "Gator Bowl Memories: Gators Hold Off Baylor in Wild Finish to Claim 1960 Gator Bowl". Florida Gators.
  9. "Florida Gators IQ".
  10. "Gainesville Sun - Google News Archive Search".
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