The 1973 Tampa Spartans football team represented the University of Tampa in the

1973 NCAA Division I football season The 1973 NCAA Division I football season was the first for the NCAA's current three-division structure. Effective with the 1973–74 academic year, schools formerly in the NCAA "University Division" were classified as Division I (later subdiv ...

. It was the Spartans' 37th season and they competed as an NCAA Division I independent. The team was led by head coach

Dennis Fryzel Dennis Fryzel (February 21, 1942 – July 6, 2009) was an American football coach. He was he last head football coach at the University of Tampa. He was the captain of the football team at Garfield Heights High School, where he lost his teeth to o ...

, in his first year, and played their home games at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida. They finished with a record of eight wins and three losses (8–3). Fryzel was hired on January 3, 1973, to serve as the replacement for Earle Bruce who resigned to become the head coach at

Iowa State Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the n ...

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