<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Sporting News College Football COY (1973) Walter Camp Coach of the Year (1974) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 2001 (profile) </Td> </Tr> <P> Barry Layne Switzer (born October 5, 1937) is a former American football player and coach . He served for 16 years as head football coach at the University of Oklahoma and four years as head coach for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He helped the Cowboys win Super Bowl XXX against the Pittsburgh Steelers . He has one of the highest winning percentages of any college football coach in history, and is one of only three head coaches to win both a college football national championship and a Super Bowl, the others being Jimmy Johnson and Pete Carroll . </P> <P> Barry Switzer was born in Crossett, Arkansas, to parents Frank Mays Switzer and Mary Louise Switzer . Barry and his younger brother, Donnie, were at home in rural Ashley County, Arkansas with their mother and father when, in early February 1954, it was raided by the Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission and the Arkansas State Police . The Commission and the State Police found untaxed contraband liquor in the home . Frank made bond but was later tried and convicted of illegal trafficking in alcohol for purposes of re-sale ("bootlegging"). He was sentenced to a term of five years in prison, but that conviction was reversed upon appeal . Frank did serve five months of that term, and, as a result, missed seeing Barry play his senior season of high school football . </P>

Coaches who have won college and nfl championships