The 1950 John Carroll Blue Streaks football team was an

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team that represented

John Carroll University John Carroll University is a private Jesuit university in University Heights, Ohio. It is primarily an undergraduate, liberal arts institution accompanied by the John M. and Mary Jo Boler College of Business. John Carroll has an enrollment of 3, ...

as an independent during the

1950 college football season The 1950 college football season finished with the unbeaten and untied Oklahoma Sooners (9–0) being the consensus choice for national champion. On New Year's Day, however, the Sooners were upset by the Kentucky Wildcats (ranked No. 7 in the A ...

. The team compiled an 8–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 322 to 127. Herb "Skeeter" Eisele was the team's head coach for the fourth year. Senior

Don Shula Donald Francis Shula (January 4, 1930 – May 4, 2020) was an American football defensive back and coach who served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) from 1963 to 1995. The head coach of the Miami Dolphins for most of his ca ...

played at the halfback position. Shula later spent more than 40 years in the

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(NFL) as a player and coach and was inducted into the

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. John Carroll's football stadium is named

Don Shula Stadium Don Shula Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located on the campus of John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio, near Cleveland. Don Shula Stadium is home to the List of NCAA Division III football programs, Division III Blue Streaks of ...

in his honor. Fullback

Carl Taseff Carl N. Taseff (September 28, 1928 – February 27, 2005) was an American football player and assistant coach. Early life and college Taseff grew up in Ohio and went to college at John Carrol University in University Heights, Ohio, east of Clev ...

received Little All-America honors from the

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(AP) and was also selected by the AP as the captain of the All-Ohio football team. Taseff later played in the NFL and was an assistant coach under Shula with the

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John Carroll John Carroll may refer to: People Academia and science *Sir John Carroll (astronomer) (1899–1974), British astronomer *John Alexander Carroll (died 2000), American history professor *John Bissell Carroll (1916–2003), American cognitive sci ...

John Carroll Blue Streaks football seasons

John Carroll Blue Streaks football John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...