The University of Delaware is the largest university in the U.S. state of Delaware. The main campus is located in Newark. They play their games on Tubby Raymond Field at 22,000-seat Delaware Stadium located in Newark, Delaware, and are currently led by head coach K.C. Keeler. The Fightin' Blue Hens have won six national titles in their 116-year history, which are 1946 AP College Div., 1963 UPI College Div., 1971 AP/UPI College Div., 1972 AP/UPI College Div., 1979 D-II and 2003 I-AA.
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They are recognized as a perennial power in FCS football and are the only FCS program to average more than 20,000 fans per regular season game for each of the past seven years. An assistant football and baseball coach named Harold "Tubby" Raymond took over in 1966, the team recorded a 2-7 record in his second season, and became the face of Delaware football for 36 seasons. When he retired in 2001, Tubby had racked up 300 wins against 119 losses and three ties, good for a .714 win percentage, and his teams earned 14 Lambert Cup Trophies, four national semi-finals, and three National Championships in 1971, 1972, and 1979. Murray, Nelson and Raymond are enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Indiana.
Georgia Tech is the only other school to place three consecutive coaches into the College Football Hall of Fame. The home attendance record was set in 1973 on October 27 against Temple University with 23,619 fans, and attendance has exceeded 22,000 fans more than 32 times