Factoid 17 - Howard Jones: Tied for Third in the Number of National Championships Won

Howard Jones is tied for third in the number of NCAA football national championships won. (However, he also played for three national championships while at Yale, so you might want to count him as having eleven championships.)

Howard Jones won a total of eight NCAAF football national championships via one poll or another: one while coaching Yale, one while coaching Iowa, and six as head coach of USC. He was born on August 23, 1885 and played for Yale for three seasons when they went undefeated (28-0-2) and won three national championships. He was head coach at: Syracuse (1908), Yale (1909), Ohio State (1910), Yale (1913), Iowa (1916-1923), Duke (1924), and USC (1925-1940).

His 1900 championship as Yale’s head coach is interesting in that it was unanimous across all polls of the day, a feat he would never match as the head coach of USC.