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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Dennis Erickson, John L. Smith, Bob Devaney, Joe Glenn, Bunny Oakes, William Henry Dietz, Bobby Wallace, Joe Tiller, Lloyd Eaton, Leon Fuller, Jack Crowe, Bill Lewis, Fred Akers, Phil Dickens, Bowden Wyatt, Rocky Long, Todd Whitten, Charlie Weatherbie, Danny Hope, Mike Van Diest, Joel Hunt, Neil Callaway, Fritz Shurmur, Kevin Sumlin, Dana Dimel, Dave Christensen, Wayne Bolt, Alex Wood, Marcus Arroyo, Randy Melvin, Al Kincaid, Manny Matsakis, Bob Bratkowski, Vance Joseph, Jim Chaney, George Cafego, Carl Selmer, Jim Marshall, Clay Stapleton, Ralph Thacker, John Corbett, Gene Huey, Bob Hicks, Derrick Shepard, Okie Blanchard. Excerpt: Dennis Erickson (born March 24, 1947) is an American football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at Arizona State University, a position he has held since the 2007 season. In 2008, the Arizona Board of Regents approved a contract extension to keep Dennis Erickson at Arizona State through June 2012. Previously, Erickson was the head football coach at the University of Idaho (1982-1985, 2006), the University of Wyoming (1986), Washington State University (1987-1988), the University of Miami (1989-1994), and Oregon State University (1999-2002). Erickson was also the head coach of two teams in the NFL: the Seattle Seahawks (1995-1998) and the San Francisco 49ers (2003-2004), where he tallied a mark of 40-56. During his stint at Miami, Erickson's team won two national championships, in 1989 and 1991. Erickson was raised in Ferndale, Washington, 100 miles (160 km) north of Seattle, and in Everett, 25 miles north of Seattle. His father, Robert "Pink" Erickson, was the head football coach at Ferndale High School before becoming the head coach at Cascade High School in Everett. The younger Erickson played quarterback at the rival Everett High, coached by next-door neighbor, Bill...