Nov 10 | Football
Nov. 10, 2011
DALLAS (SMU) - With a 6-3 mark - its best since 1986 - and bowl-eligible for the third straight season, SMU hosts Navy in a nationally-televised match-up on Saturday, Nov. 12, at 2:30 p.m. The two teams will battle for the Gansz Trophy, a traveling trophy created to honor late coaching legend Frank Gansz.
Considered perhaps the top special teams coach in the history of the NFL, Gansz spent time at both SMU and the Naval Academy. Gansz was starting his second season as special teams coach on the Hilltop when he passed away on April 27, 2009. As a collegian, Gansz played center and linebacker for the Naval Academy from 1957 to 1959 and graduated in 1960. He also spent four seasons as an assistant coach at Navy (1969-72). In all, Gansz was a veteran of 38 seasons of coaching - 24 in the NFL and 14 in the collegiate ranks.
On the field, SMU is 13-3 in its last 16 home games, dating back to the start of the 2009 season, but one of those losses came to Navy in overtime in 2009.
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