Rose Bowl Hall of Fame
1976 Rose Bowl Game
2014 Inductee
Dick Vermeil built one of the most distinguished coaching careers in football history. He retired in 2006 following 15 seasons as an NFL head coach and 14 years in broadcasting, as well as coaching stints in both college and high school football.
Vermeil became the head football coach at UCLA in 1974 and led the Bruins to a Rose Bowl Game victory over the No. 1-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes on Jan. 1, 1976. Later that year, Vermeil began his career as an NFL head coach when he was hired to guide the Philadelphia Eagles. In his seven seasons with the team, Vermeil engineered four playoff appearances, highlighted by an NFC Championship Game win over the Dallas Cowboys and an appearance in Super Bowl XV versus the Oakland Raiders (1980 season). He left
coaching in 1982 to begin a broadcasting career, working as an NFL and college football analyst for CBS and ABC. Vermeil is the only person to have coached a winning team in the Rose Bowl and also broadcast a game years later.
In 1997, Vermeil returned to the NFL as the head coach of the St. Louis Rams and led the team to its first Super Bowl victory. In the 1999 season, the Rams beat the Tennessee Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV. Vermeil also was head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs from 2001 to 2005. His 2003 squad won a division championship.
