Harvey Hampton -- Football

Harvey graduated from Forrest City High School in 1972 after starting for the Mustangs for three years.
He was named to the All-State football team in 1971 and then went on to attend the University of Arkansas, playing for Coach Frank Broyles.
He started for the Hogs defensively all four years and earned the Crip Hall Homecoming Award as a senior in 1976.
Following college, Hampton coached at the college level at both Arkansas (1983) and at the University of Memphis.
Elected to the Forrest City Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002.

Tom Hardin -- Football / Track

Tom Hardin attended the University of Arkansas, where he lettered in track and cross-country.
In 1950 his team won the first Southwest Conference Championship. That year Hardin set a mile record, which was also the fastest mile run by any athlete in Arkansas. In June of 1951 he graduated from Arkansas with a Bachelor of Science in Education degree.
In 1951 Hardin began his coaching career at Benton Junior High School, where he enjoyed successful seasons in football, basketball and track. He moved to coaching senior football and track in 1959 at Benton Senior High while also serving as athletic director. He had successful seasons from 1959 to 1964. His next stop was Fayetteville High School, where he coached football and track (1963-67) and performed athletic director duties. He had a 67-19-5 record as a high school football coach prior to joining FHS.
In 1966 his football team was ranked fourth in the state, and in 1965 the track team won numerous championships, including state, setting 14 new state records. In 1967 Hardin was named the head track and cross-country coach at the University of Arkansas.
In 1970 he served as athletic director at Brevard County School District and in 1972 was named the assistant superintendent at Pulaski County Special School District. In July of 1978 he was named superintendent of that district. He passed away in 2007.

Jamel Harris -- Graduate Assistant Football Coach - Defense, Tulsa Golden Hurricane

(as of football season 2002) Jamel Harris is in his first season (2002) as a graduate assistant coach for the Tulsa football program. He will assist with coaching the Hurricane defense.
Harris was a four-year letterwinner at the University of Arkansas (1996-99). A three-year starting linebacker, Harris was credited with 203 career tackles and had 77 stops his senior season. He played two years on the Razorback defense that was coached by coordinator Keith Burns.
As a prep running back, Harris was the Alabama Class 1A-3A Player of the Year his senior season. He was a four-year all-conference performer at Wicksburg High School while gaining 5,007 yards and 48 touchdowns during his career.
A native of Dothan, Alabama, Harris earned his bachelor's degree in kinesiology from Arkansas in 2000.

Ken Hatfield -- Head Coach, Rice University Owls

(as of football season 2005) The national coach of the year in 1983 at Air Force, the native of Helena, Ark., has been successful at every coaching stop. He led the Air Force to successive bowl trips in 1982-83, then took Arkansas to dominance in the SWC with six bowl trips in his six seasons in Fayetteville. The Houston Post named Hatfield the SWCs coach of the decade in the 1980s. The Razorbacks were league champions in 1988 and 89 before he moved on to Clemson. By winning another title in his first season back in the league, Hatfield joined a short list of SWC coaches who won three straight titles.
Clemson remained one of the best programs in college football under Hatfield. His first team in 1990 compiled a 10-2 record, including a 30-0 win over Illinois in the Hall of Fame Bowl in Tampa, Fla. The 91 squad won the ACC championship, and the 93 team went 8-3 to win a berth in the Peach Bowl vs. Kentucky. All four of his Clemson teams spent time ranked among the nation's top 20 teams.
Hatfield's college playing career was a fitting prelude to his coaching prosperity. An academic all-America selection for Arkansas 1964 national champions, he led the nation in punt returns in both 1963 and 64 after a second-place finish as a sophomore in 1962. He remains the only college player to finish in the top two in punt returns for three straight seasons and his 16.2 yard average on 70 career returns still ranks 12th in NCAA history. He immediately went into coaching after graduation, first at the high school level and then as an assistant coach at Army, Tennessee, Florida and Air Force. In 13 seasons as an assistant, he helped teams to seven bowl games and was part of a SEC championship at Tennessee in 1969.
In 1978, he was named offensive coordinator at Air Force on Bill Parcells coaching staff. A year later, Parcells was wooed to the professional game and Hatfield had his first head coaching position.
The Falcons had not had a winning season since 1973, but by his fourth season Hatfield had led the Academy to an 8-5 record and a Hall of Fame Bowl win over Vanderbilt. In 1983, the Falcons went 10-2, including wins over Notre Dame, Navy and Mississippi in the Independence Bowl. Hatfield won the Bobby Dodd Award as the national coach of the year and was selected by the American Football Coaches Association as its national honoree.
Returning to Arkansas in 1984, the Razorbacks became the SWCs dominant team during his tenure. His Arkansas squads compiled a 55-17-1 record and appeared in the Liberty, Holiday, Orange and Cotton Bowls. The 1988-89 teams won SWC championships and he was the leagues coach of the year in 88.
An accounting major who earned his degree in 1965, Hatfield was the recipient of the Swartz Award, presented annually to Arkansas top student-athlete. The 1964 all-SWC pick was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1989 and was a member of the Razorbacks' all-time team selected to celebrate the university's grid centennial in 1994.

He was inducted in the UA Letterman's Hall of Honor in 1995.

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Darrell Hawkins -- Administrative Assistant for Men's Basketball, University of Houston

(as of basketball season 2006-07) Darrell Hawkins begins his first season (06-07) as an administrative assistant after spending the past four years at Prairie View A&M.
Hawkins served as the Panthers' interim head coach in 2005-06 after serving three years as an assistant coach. There, he played an integral part in Prairie View winning its first Southwestern Conference championship in 40 years in 2002-03. He also coached five All-SWAC players during his tenure.
Born in Houston and raised in the city of Prairie View, Hawkins was a four-year letterman at the University of Arkansas, and helped lead the team to two Southwest Conference championships and two Southeastern Conference championships.
In addition to the Razorbacks playing in the 1990 NCAA Final Four, they also had an Elite Eight and three Sweet 16 appearances during his career. During his senior year, Hawkins led Arkansas in rebounding, and he was a All-SEC Second Team selection. He also tied a NCAA Tournament record with eight steals in a game.
After his collegiate career, Hawkins played professionally in the Continental Basketball Association, the United States Basketball League, and overseas in China and Europe.
Hawkins graduated from Arkansas in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in marketing.

Monte Henderson -- Defensive Backs Coach / Recruiting Coordinator, Western Illinois University Leathernecks

(as of football season 2008) Former University of Arkansas assistant Monte Henderson joined the Western Illinois football staff as the defensive backs coach on March 22, 2005.
Henderson spent the last seven years in a variety of capacities with the Razorbacks, working last year with the secondary under 21-year veteran coach Bobby Allen. The 2004 Arkansas defense ranked fourth in the SEC and 21st nationally, holding opponents to 187.0 passing yards per game, and picking off 17 passes, the third-most in the SEC.
Henderson served the last two seasons as a defensive graduate assistant, coordinating the offensive scout team and assisting in the breakdown of opponents' offensive game film. He spent his first year working directly with defensive line coach Tracy Rocker. In those two seasons, the Razorbacks compiled a 14-10 record and a win over Missouri in the 2003 Independence Bowl.
Prior to becoming a GA at Arkansas, Henderson worked as an administrative assistant on the Razorback staff from 1998 to 2002, aiding in game planning and preparation, recruiting and game day management. In his seven seasons in Fayetteville, Henderson was part of six bowl teams and two SEC Western Division championship squads (1998, 2002).
A native of Conway, Ark., Henderson received his undergraduate degree from Arkansas in 2001, earning a bachelor of science degree in kinesiology.
An all-America in football at Conway High School, Henderson was a cornerback at UA-Pine Bluff prior to transferring to Arkansas.

Fitz Hill -- Head Coach, San Jose State University Spartans

(as of football season 2004) The native of Arkadelphia, AR, is in his fourth season ('04) as the head football coach at San José State University. He signed a four year contract extension on January 28, 2003. The Spartans were 3-9 on the field in 2001. Yet, his first season was filled with accomplishments. The team ranked in the top-25 nationally in total offense (23rd) and passing offense (18th), twice set single-game school records for total offense and had quarterback Marcus Arroyo set a NCAA record for single-game passing efficiency.
After a year at Northeast Louisiana University, he returned to Arkadelphia, majored in journalism and was a football star at Ouachita Baptist University. He was an all-conference, all-district and All-American wide receiver his junior and senior seasons.
From 1992 to 2000, he was a fixture on the University of Arkansas staff. Through three different head coaches and four post-season bowl appearances over the next eight seasons, the one constant on-the-field presence was assistant coach Fitz Hill. Hill received the Bronze Star for his service in Operation Desert Storm.

Madre Hill -- Running Backs Coach, Florida International University Golden Panthers

(as of football season 2006) Madre Hill, who led the Southeastern Conference in rushing in 1995 and later played four years of professional football, was named assistant football coach (running backs) at Florida International University in 2006. He was previously hired at the University of South Carolina on December 11, 2004 and let go on November 30, 2005.
Hill ranks as one of the University of Arkansas' all-time top tailbacks. The native of Malvern, Ark., rushed for a school-record 1,387 yards in 1995, a total that led the SEC, and helped lead the Razorbacks to the SEC Championship game in Atlanta against the Florida Gators. Hill was named first-team All-SEC that season. Despite having to overcome two knee injuries during his career (1994-98), he finished his playing days with 2,407 yards and 25 touchdowns. He scored a school-record six touchdowns in game against South Carolina in 1995, a season in which he tallied six 100-plus rushing yard games. Also recognized as a dangerous kickoff return specialist, Hill returned a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown vs. LSU in 1994. Hill was named to Arkansas' All-Decade team for the 1990s. He served as a graduate assistant coach at Arkansas in 2004.
Hill was a seventh round draft pick in 1999 by the Cleveland Browns. He played one season with the Browns and two years in NFL Europe before joining the Oakland Raiders in 2002. He was a member of the Raiders' AFC Championship team that season that played in the Super Bowl against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Hill came back to Arkansas to earn his bachelor's degree in 2004.

Lou Holtz -- Head Coach, University of South Carolina Gamecocks

(as of football season 2004) Lou Holtz has established himself as one of the most successful college football coaches of all time. He's taken three different programs to top 20 finishes, won a national championship and national coach of the year honors, and guided teams to 21 postseason bowl games, is the man entrusted with leading the University of South Carolina football program. After going 0-11 at South Carolina in 1999, Lou engineered one of the biggest turnarounds in College football history, leading the gamecocks to an 8-4 record, including an impressive victory over Ohio St. in the Outback Bowl. 2001 saw Lou lead USC to a 9-3 record and another victory over Ohio St. in the Outback Bowl.
Lou Holtz has been a builder of programs throughout his illustrious 27 years as a collegiate head football coach. First at William &Mary ... then at North Carolina State ... then at Arkansas ... then at Minnesota ... then at Notre Dame ... at all five universities, Holtz led those programs to a postseason bowl game by his second season at the helm and consistently produced winning teams that also recorded superlative graduation rates. He is one of only 15 coaches in the history of the sport to reach the coveted 200-victory plateau.
Holtz served as a college football analyst for CBS Sports. Most recently, he was head coach at Notre Dame for 11 seasons from 1986-96, where he rekindled the football fortunes at one of the country's most prestigious programs, claiming a national championship and leading the Fighting Irish to nine consecutive New Year's Day bowl games.
His teams reeled off 23 consecutive victories through the 1988 and '89 seasons to establish the longest winning streak in Notre Dame history. Holtz came to Notre Dame after rebuilding programs at Minnesota (1984-85), Arkansas (1977-83), North Carolina State (1972-75) and William & Mary (1969-71). He spent the 1976 season as head coach of the NFL's New York Jets.
Holtz's sterling seven-season mark of 60-21-2 (.735) at Arkansas included six straight bowl appearances after he arrived, the first time the Razorbacks had ever played in bowl games in more than four straight seasons. His first six Arkansas teams combined to average exactly nine victories per year. Four of his Razorback teams finished in the final top 10 poll, while five finished in the top 20.
Holtz quickly made a name for himself at Arkansas by taking his first Razorback team in 1977 to an 11-1 record, highlighted by a stunning 31-6 upset of second-ranked and once-beaten Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. That victory left Arkansas third in both of the final polls and came despite the fact Holtz had suspended, before the squad traveled to Miami, three players who had combined to score 78 percent of Arkansas' touchdowns in 1977. That season, Holtz was named National Coach of the Year by the Football Writers Association of America and the Walter Camp Foundation. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008.
Holtz's 1979 Arkansas team was co-champions of the Southwest Conference and his 1980 and 1982 squad claimed bowl victories. During his seven seasons at Arkansas, his teams played before sellout crowds at every home game. U of A Coaching Records.

Harold Horton -- Football

Horton lettered in football at Arkansas in 1960 and 1961. He came to coach at UA in 1968 after coaching at Forrest City HS. Horton led the UCA football team to back-to-back NAIA championships (1984-85) and to seven straight AIC championships, earning the league's Coach of the Year honors five times. He was the NAIA Coach of the Year in 1983. Horton compiled a 74-12-5 record at UCA, the highest winning percentage in school history and had the most victories in school history. During his tenure, Horton coached 21 All-Americans and led the Bears to 38 straight regular-season wins. Horton was elected to Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1989.

Corky Houghton -- Assistant Head Coach / Offensive Line Coach, Louisiana College Wildcats

(as of football season 2005) Coach Houghton is originally from Overland Park, Kansas where he attended Shawnee Mission South High School. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Austin College in Sherman, TX where he was an Academic All-American and a 2 year letterman on the football team. He has coached at Austin College, Trinity Valley Community College, University of Arkansas, University of Texas at El Paso, Baytown Sterling High School, Austin High School, Louisiana College and Wakeland High School in Frisco, TX.

Raymond House -- Head Coach, Arkansas War Cats (WFL)

(as of the 2008 season) Raymond House was named head coach of the Arkansas War Cats (World Football League) on October 18, 2007. Previously, he was hired as the Defensive Coordinator for the Arkansas Stars (NIFL) on January 6, 2006 and was named head coach on January 17, 2006. He was demoted to DC on April 19 after going 1-3 and would resign, be rehired as head coach then move back to assistant coach all before the season was over.
After graduation from the University of Arkansas in 2002, House was signed by the Atlanta Falcons as a defensive end. He spent the next two seasons in the NFL.
After leaving the NFL, House went on to play for the Ottawa Renegades (CFL) for one season.

Gary Howard -- Head Football Coach, University of Central Oklahoma

(as of football season 2002) At the helm of one of NCAA Division II's elite programs is veteran head coach Gary Howard, who is in his third decade as a member of the Central Oklahoma football staff.
UCO's all-time winningest football coach with a 162-105-6 career record that ranks among the best in Division II, Howard is in his 26th year as the Broncho skipper. UCO has established itself as a perennial national contender in the past nine years, having compiled an amazing 71-26-1 record in that span while qualifying for the playoffs three of the past five years.
Howard, who handles the on-field coaching of the offensive line, has led the Bronchos to three Lone Star Conference North Division titles and two overall league crowns in the past four years.
UCO has had 16 winning seasons under Howard, including 13 years with seven or more wins. The veteran coach has directed the Bronchos to seven of the school's nine playoff appearances, topped by an NAIA national championship effort in 1982.
Gary reached the 100-win plateau in 1994 when the Bronchos beat intrastate rival Langston 38-10, surpassed legendary C.W. Wantland as the school's all-time win leader in 1995 when UCO beat LU 30-26 and reached the 150-win mark last season.
Gary began his coaching career in 1964 as an offensive line coach at Arkansas, then spent two years as an assistant at Del City High School. He served as defensive coordinator for Northeastern Oklahoma A&M's national championship team in 1967 before coming to Edmond in 1968 as UCO's defensive coordinator.
He served in that capacity for nine years before taking over the head coaching job on March 17, 1977.
Howard was a high school standout at Tulsa Central and played collegiately at Arkansas, helping the Razorbacks to one Southwestern Conference championship.
Gary, a member of the American Football Coaches Association, received his bachelor's from Arkansas and later earned a master's from UCO.

Jim Lee Howell -- Football

Jim Howell lettered at Arkansas from 1933-35. In 1954 Howell became head coach of the NFL's New York Giants. With some help from a couple of future Hall of Fame assistant coach's and shrewd trading of draft picks for veterans, he rebuilt the squad to win the World Championship in 1956. The Giants first Championship since 1938. Coach Howell was the Ends Coach for the Giants from 1949-53. He was an assistant coach at Arkansas in 1936 and served as Head Coach at Wagner College from 1947-53. He led Wagner to a 24-30-3 record. He was instrumental in rebuilding a Wagner football program after the United States fought in World War II.

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