Barry Switzer

Barry Layne Switzer is an American former football coach. He served for 16 years as head football coach at the University of Oklahoma and four years as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He won three national championships at Oklahoma, and led the Cowboys to win Super Bowl XXX against the Pittsburgh Steelers. He has one of the highest winning percentages of any college football coach in history, and is the second of only three head coaches to win both a college football national championship and a Super Bowl: the others are his Cowboys predecessor Jimmy Johnson and Pete Carroll.

5 October 1937

Born on the same birth date (5 October 1937): Carlo Mastrangelo

Born on the same birth day (5 October): Dennis Byrd • Good Charlotte • Jacob Tremblay • Kate Winslet • Michael Gaughan (Irish republican) • October 5 • Reinhard Selten • Rosalie Gower • Sergey Muromtsev

Born in the same month (October 1937): Aida Navarro • Christopher Booker • Claude Lelouch • David Crocker • Emma Tennant • Gail Gilmore • Ignacio Carrasco de Paula • Johnnie Cochran • M. Rosaria Piomelli • Miguel Ángel Coria • Petar Stipetić • Peter Max • Saeed Ahmed (cricketer) • Sonny Osborne • Wanda Jackson