Vic Miranda

Vic Miranda
Florida Gators
Position Guard
Career history
College Florida (1957–1960)
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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