North Texas Mean Green football
Current season
First season	1913
Athletic director	Rick Villarreal
Head coach	Todd Dodge
	2nd year, 3–21  (.125)
Home stadium	[[Fouts Field]]
Stadium capacity	30,000[1]
Stadium surface	Field Turf
Location	Denton, TX
Conference	Sun Belt
All-time record	461–412–33 (.527)
Postseason bowl record	2–5–0
Conference titles	Lone Star: 8 Gulf Coast: 5 Missouri Valley: 5 Southland: 2 Sun Belt: 4
Colors	Green and White
Fight song	UNT Fight Song
Mascot	Scrappy
Marching band	Green Brigade Marching Band
Rivals	SMU Mustangs MTSU Blue Raiders New Mexico State Aggies
Website	www.meangreensports.com

The North Texas Mean Green football team represents the University of North Texas in NCAA Division I-FBS (formerly known as I-A) college football, competing as a member of the Sun Belt Conference. The Mean Green have attained several conference championships; most recently, four consecutive Sun Belt Conference championships.^[2]

Since 1951, the North Texas Mean Green has played its home games at Fouts Field, a stadium with a current capacity of 30,000 on the campus in Denton, Texas. Plans for a new stadium located within the Mean Green Village are in the works but no start date for construction has been made.

On December 12, 2006, Todd Dodge was announced as the next Mean Green head coach, replacing former coach Darrell Dickey, who was fired on November 8 after going 3-9 in 2006. Dodge (offensive co-ordinator at UNT from 1991-92) was one of the nation’s most successful high school football coaches, amassing a 98-11 record overall at Carroll High School in Southlake, Texas.

In June 2009, North Texas accepted to play the Georgia Bulldogs at Sanford Stadium to open the 2013 season. Georgia will pay North Texas $975,000—the most UGA has ever guaranteed a visiting team.^[3]

Contents 1 History 1.1 Conference Championships 1.2 Bowl Games 2 Players 2.1 Retired Numbers 2.2 College Football Hall of Famers 2.3 Pro Football Hall of Famers 2.4 Current NFL players 3 Coaches 4 Facilities 5 References

[edit] History

[edit] Conference Championships

Year	Conference	Coach
1932	Lone Star	Jack Sisco
1935	Lone Star	Jack Sisco
1936	Lone Star	Jack Sisco
1939	Lone Star	Jack Sisco
1940	Lone Star	Jack Sisco
1941	Lone Star	Jack Sisco
1946	Lone Star	Odus Mitchell
1947	Lone Star	Odus Mitchell
1950	Gulf Coast	Odus Mitchell
1951	Gulf Coast	Odus Mitchell
1952	Gulf Coast	Odus Mitchell
1955	Gulf Coast	Odus Mitchell
1956	Gulf Coast	Odus Mitchell
1958	Missouri Valley	Odus Mitchell
1959	Missouri Valley	Odus Mitchell
1966	Missouri Valley	Odus Mitchell
1967	Missouri Valley	Rod Rust
1973	Missouri Valley	Hayden Fry
1983	Southland	Corky Nelson
1994	Southland	Matt Simon
2001	Sun Belt	Darrell Dickey
2002	Sun Belt	Darrell Dickey
2003	Sun Belt	Darrell Dickey
2004	Sun Belt	Darrell Dickey

[edit] Bowl Games

Date	Bowl	W/L	Opponent	PF	PA
December 21, 1946	Optimist	W	Pacific	14	13
January 1, 1948	Salad	L	Nevada	6	13
December 31, 1959	Sun	L	New Mexico State	8	28
December 17, 2001	New Orleans	L	Colorado State	20	45
December 17, 2002	New Orleans	W	Cincinnati	24	19
December 16, 2003	New Orleans	L	Memphis	17	27
December 14, 2004	New Orleans	L	Southern Miss	10	31

[edit] Players

[edit] Retired Numbers

• 28 - Abner Haynes (1957-59)
• 33 - Ray Renfro (1949-50)
• 55 - Richard Gill (1968-69)
• 75 - "Mean" Joe Greene (1966-69)

[edit] College Football Hall of Famers

• "Mean" Joe Greene

[edit] Pro Football Hall of Famers

• "Mean" Joe Greene

[edit] Current NFL players

• Patrick Cobbs, Running back, Miami Dolphins
• Brad Kassell, Linebacker, New York Jets
• Cody Spencer, Linebacker, New York Jets
• Brian Waters, Guard, Kansas City Chiefs^[4]

[edit] Coaches

Years	Coach	Seasons	W	L	T	%	CW	CL	CT	%	CC	Postseason
1913-14	J. W. Pender	2	3	4	0	.429	0	0	0	.000	0	0-0
1915-19	J. W. St. Clair	5	20	10	3	.652	0	0	0	.000	0	0-0
1920-24	Theron Fouts	5	23	14	2	.615	10	2	1	.846	0	0-0
1925-28	John Reid	4	16	18	3	.473	10	8	2	.600	0	0-0
1929-41	Jack Sisco	13	74	37	10	.653	44	8	8	.867	7	0-0
1942	Lloyd Russell	1	3	5	0	.375	1	2	0	.333	0	0-0
1946-66	Odus Mitchell	21	122	85	9	.586	43	26	2	.634	9	1-2
1967-72	Rod Rust	6	29	32	1	.476	16	14	0	.533	1	0-0
1973-78	Hayden Fry	6	40	23	3	.629	6	4	2	.667	1	0-0
1979-80	Jerry Moore	2	11	11	0	.500	0	0	0	.000	0	0-0
1981	Bob Tyler	1	2	9	0	.182	0	0	0	.000	0	0-0
1982-90	Corky Nelson	9	48	52	1	.480	24	20	1	.556	1	0-3
1991-93	Dennis Parker	3	11	21	1	.348	7	14	0	.333	0	0-0
1994-97	Matt Simon	4	18	26	1	.411	10	5	1	.688	1	0-1
1998-2006	Darrell Dickey	9	42	64	0	.396	31	20	0	.608	4	1-3
2007-Present	Todd Dodge	2	2	16	0	.111	1	8	0	.111	0	0-0
Total	16 Coaches	92	464	421	34	.523	203	129	17	.630	24	2-9

CW=Conference Wins, CL=Conference Losses, CT=Conference Ties, CC=Conference Championships

[edit] Facilities

Since 1952, the Mean Green have played their home football games at Fouts Field.

Plans for a new football stadium are (as of 2008) currently underway. It would be part of the new Mean Green Village, which is being constructed in several stages.

[edit] References

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