John Huarte - Wikipedia

American football player (born 1944) John Huarte

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Position	Quarterback
Personal information
Born	(1944-04-06) April 6, 1944 (age 81)Anaheim, California, U.S.
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	185 lb (84 kg)
Career information
High school	Mater Dei (Santa Ana, California)
College	Notre Dame (1962–1964)
NFL draft	1965: 6th round, 76th overall pick
AFL draft	1965: 2nd round, 12th overall pick
Career history
New York Jets (1965) Boston Patriots (1966–1967) Philadelphia Eagles (1968) Kansas City Chiefs (1969–1971) Chicago Bears (1972) Memphis Southmen (1974–1975)
Awards and highlights
Super Bowl champion (IV) National champion (1964) Heisman Trophy (1964) UPI Player of the Year (1964) Consensus All-American (1964)
Career AFL/NFL statistics
Passing attempts 48 Passing completions 19 Completion percentage 39.6% TD–INT 1–5 Passing yards 230 Passer rating 22.4 Stats at Pro Football Reference
College Football Hall of Fame

John Gregory Huarte (/ˈhjuərt/ HYOO-ərt); born April 6, 1944) is an American former professional football quarterback who played with several teams in the American Football League (AFL), the National Football League (NFL), and in the World Football League (WFL) between 1965 and 1975. He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, where he won the 1964 Heisman Trophy. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2005.

Early life and college

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Huarte was born and raised in Orange County, California; his father Joseph was a former minor league baseball player of Basque descent.[1][2] The family ran an orange and avocado ranch and he graduated from Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana in 1961.[1]

Huarte played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. During his sophomore and junior seasons, he averaged only a few minutes per game due to injuries and the Irish went 5–5 and 2–7, respectively. As a senior in 1964 under new Irish head coach Ara Parseghian however, he became the starting quarterback as the Irish won all but one game during the 1964 season, in which he was selected as an All-American and won the Heisman Trophy.[1][3] By the end of the season, Huarte threw for 2,062 yards with only 205 passes, an average of over ten yards per pass attempt, many to receiver Jack Snow.[4]

Huarte was a member of the College All-Star team in the annual pre-season game against the defending NFL champions at Chicago's Soldier Field. The 1965 game was in early August against the Cleveland Browns and Huarte was named the game's most valuable player.

College statistics

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Season	Team	Games	Passing								Rushing
		G	Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	Avg	TD	Int	Rtg	Att	Yds	Avg	TD
1962	Notre Dame	10	4	8	50.0	38	4.8	0	0	89.9	3	-14	-4.7	0
1963	Notre Dame	9	20	42	47.6	243	5.8	1	0	104.1	11	-53	-4.8	0
1964	Notre Dame	10	114	205	55.6	2,062	10.1	16	11	155.1	37	7	0.2	3
Total		29	138	255	54.1%	2,343	9.2	17	11	144.7	51	-60	-1.2	3

Professional career

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Huarte was drafted in 1965 by both pro football leagues: he was the twelfth overall selection of the AFL draft and the 76th pick of the NFL draft. He signed with the AFL's New York Jets over the NFL Philadelphia Eagles, but was beaten out for the starting position by fellow-rookie Joe Namath, the first pick of the AFL draft, who had finished eleventh in the Heisman voting as a senior at Alabama.[1] The AFL Jets thus signed both the Heisman Trophy winner and the Alabama star away from the NFL. Huarte was third on the depth chart behind co-starters Namath and Mike Taliaferro and was on the taxi squad. Following the 1965 season, Huarte was traded to the Boston Patriots for Jim Colclough and the draft rights to Wichita State linebacker/center Jim Waskiewicz.[5]

Subsequently, Huarte did see action as a back-up quarterback for several other professional teams from 1966 to 1972.[6][7][8] Out of the NFL in 1973, he played his final two seasons of professional football as the starting quarterback of the Memphis Southmen of the World Football League,[4][9] which folded before the completion of the 1975 season.[10]

After football

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Huarte is the founder and Owner of Arizona Tile.[11] In 2005, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.[12][13]

Huarte is married to Eileen Devine from Woodside, New York. They have 5 children and 14 grandchildren and live in Pacific Palisades, Ca. In 1977, he started a tile/granite store in San Diego. It has now grown to 30 locations, with over 1000 employees throughout the United States. It is still family owned and operated by John and Eileen Huarte and their children.

See also

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• List of American Football League players

References

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1. ^ a b c d Boyle, Robert H. (July 19, 1965). "Show-biz Sonny and his quest for stars". Sports Illustrated. p. 66. Archived from the original on September 28, 2009.
2. ^ "Joseph Huarte". Baseball Reference. Retrieved April 26, 2014.
3. ^ "Huarte wins Heisman Trophy". Miami News. Associated Press. November 24, 1964. p. 2B.
4. ^ a b Vecsey, George (November 28, 1983). "Huarte: Most unheralded Heisman winner". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (New York Times News Service). p. 16.
5. ^ "Patriots land John Huarte". Spokane Daily Chronicle. Associated Press. December 20, 1965. p. 15.
6. ^ "Huarte makes another stop". Tuscaloosa News. Associated Press. November 8, 1967. p. 7.
7. ^ "Huarte, Flores put on Chiefs' roster". Toledo Blade. Associated Press. October 4, 1969. p. 21.
8. ^ "Huarte to beef up Bears' roster". Wilmington (NC) Star-News. UPI. September 15, 1972. p. 3C.
9. ^ "Huarte sparks Memphis win". Ocala Star-Banner. Associated Press. July 19, 1974. p. 3B.
10. ^ "Troubled World Football League finally makes decision to fold". Florence (AL) Times. Associated Press. October 23, 1975. p. 17.
11. ^ Our History Archived June 21, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Arizona Tile. Arizona Tile has become one of the leading tile and slab distributors in the U.S. Accessed July 24, 2011.
12. ^ "John Huarte". Our Executive Team. Arizona Tile. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
13. ^ "Heisman winner Huarte finally enters college hall". Wilmington (NC) Star-News. Associated Press. August 11, 2006. p. 8C.

External links

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• College Football Hall of Fame profile

• Heisman Trophy profile
• Career statistics from NFL.com · Pro Football Reference

v t e Notre Dame Fighting Irish starting quarterbacks

George Cartier (1887) Joe Cusack (1888) Ed Coady (1888–1889) Pat Coady (1892) Charles Zeitler (1893) Nicholas Dinkel (1894) William Walsh (1895) Frank Hering (1896) Fred Waters (1897) Charles Fleming (1898) Angus McDonald (1899) Clarence Diebold (1900) Henry McGlew (1901–1902) Nate Silver (1903–1905) Dick Coad (1904) Bob Bracken (1906) Billy Ryan (1907) Don Hamilton (1908–1909) Gus Dorais (1910–1913) Alfred Bergman (1914) James Phelan (1915–1917) Tex Allison (1917) Bill Mohn (1918) Leonard Bahan (1919) Joe Brandy (1920) Chet Grant (1921) Frank Thomas (1922) Harry Stuhldreher (1922–1924) Red Edwards (1924–1926) Albert Cullen (1925) Chuck Riley (1926–1927) Jim Brady (1927–1928) Frank Carideo (1928–1930) Chuck Jaskwhich (1931–1932) Bud Bonar (1933–1934) Wally Fromhart (1934–1935) Andy Puplis (1936–1937) Steve Sitko (1938–1939) Bob Hargrave (1940) Harry Wright (1941) Angelo Bertelli (1941–1943) Johnny Lujack (1943, 1946–1947) Frank Dancewicz (1944–1945) Frank Tripucka (1948) Bob Williams (1949–1950) John Mazur (1950–1951) Ralph Guglielmi (1951–1954) Tom Carey (1952, 1954) Paul Hornung (1955–1956) Robert Williams (1956–1958) George Izo (1958–1959) Don White (1959) George Haffner (1960) Daryle Lamonica (1960–1962) Frank Budka (1961, 1963) Denis Szot (1962–1963) John Huarte (1963–1964) Sandy Bonvechio (1963) William Zloch (1965) Tom Schoen (1965) Terry Hanratty (1966–1968) Coley O'Brien (1966) Joe Theismann (1968–1970) Pat Steenberge (1971) Bill Etter (1971) Cliff Brown (1971) Tom Clements (1972–1974) Rick Slager (1975–1976) Joe Montana (1975, 1977–1978) Rusty Lisch (1976–1977, 1979) Tim Koegel (1979, 1981) Mike Courey (1979–1980) Blair Kiel (1980–1983) Ken Karcher (1982) Jim O'Hara (1982) Steve Beuerlein (1983–1986) Scott Grooms (1984) Terry Andrysiak (1985–1987) Tony Rice (1987–1989) Kent Graham (1987) Rick Mirer (1990–1992) Paul Failla (1991, 1993) Kevin McDougal (1993) Ron Powlus (1994–1997) Tom Krug (1995) Jarious Jackson (1998–1999) Eric Chappell (1998) Arnaz Battle (2000) Gary Godsey (2000) Matt LoVecchio (2000–2001) Carlyle Holiday (2001–2003) Pat Dillingham (2002) Brady Quinn (2003–2006) Demetrius Jones (2007) Jimmy Clausen (2007–2009) Evan Sharpley (2007) Dayne Crist (2010–2011) Tommy Rees (2010–2013) Everett Golson (2012, 2014) Malik Zaire (2014–2015) DeShone Kizer (2015–2016) Brandon Wimbush (2017–2018) Ian Book (2017–2020) Jack Coan (2021) Tyler Buchner (2022) Drew Pyne (2022) Sam Hartman (2023) Steve Angeli (2023) Riley Leonard (2024) CJ Carr (2025–present)

v t e 1964 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football—NFF national champions
John Atamian Jim Carroll Pete Duranko Nick Eddy George Goeddeke Kevin Hardy John Huarte Joe Kantor Tom Longo Jim Lynch Alan Page Dave Pivec Nick Rassas Jack Snow Bill Wolski Head coach: Ara Parseghian Assistant coaches: John Ray Doc Urich Joe Yonto

v t e Heisman Trophy winners

1935: Berwanger 1936: Kelley 1937: Frank 1938: O'Brien 1939: Kinnick 1940: Harmon 1941: B. Smith 1942: Sinkwich 1943: Bertelli 1944: Horvath 1945: Blanchard 1946: G. Davis 1947: Lujack 1948: D. Walker 1949: Hart 1950: Janowicz 1951: Kazmaier 1952: Vessels 1953: Lattner 1954: Ameche 1955: Cassady 1956: Hornung 1957: Crow 1958: Dawkins 1959: Cannon 1960: Bellino 1961: E. Davis 1962: Baker 1963: Staubach 1964: Huarte 1965: Garrett 1966: Spurrier 1967: Beban 1968: Simpson 1969: Owens 1970: Plunkett 1971: Sullivan 1972: Rodgers 1973: Cappelletti 1974: A. Griffin 1975: A. Griffin 1976: Dorsett 1977: Campbell 1978: Sims 1979: C. White 1980: Rogers 1981: Allen 1982: H. Walker 1983: Rozier 1984: Flutie 1985: B. Jackson 1986: Testaverde 1987: Brown 1988: Sanders 1989: Ware 1990: Detmer 1991: Howard 1992: Torretta 1993: Ward 1994: Salaam 1995: George 1996: Wuerffel 1997: Woodson 1998: R. Williams 1999: Dayne 2000: Weinke 2001: Crouch 2002: Palmer 2003: J. White 2004: Leinart 2005: Bush 2006: T. Smith 2007: Tebow 2008: Bradford 2009: Ingram II 2010: Newton 2011: Griffin III 2012: Manziel 2013: Winston 2014: Mariota 2015: Henry 2016: L. Jackson 2017: Mayfield 2018: Murray 2019: Burrow 2020: D. Smith 2021: Young 2022: C. Williams 2023: Daniels 2024: Hunter 2025: Mendoza

v t e UPI College Football Player of the Year winners

1950: Janowicz 1951: Kazmaier 1952: Vessels 1953: Giel 1954: Ameche 1955: Cassady 1956: Majors 1957: Crow 1958: Cannon 1959: Cannon 1960: Bellino 1961: Ferguson 1962: Baker 1963: Staubach 1964: Huarte 1965: Garrett 1966: Spurrier 1967: Simpson 1968: Simpson 1969: Owens 1970: Plunkett 1971: Marinaro 1972: Rogers 1973: Cappelletti 1974: Griffin 1975: Griffin 1976: Dorsett 1977: Campbell 1978: Sims 1979: C. White 1980: Green 1981: Allen 1982: H. Walker 1983: Rozier 1984: Flutie 1985: Jackson 1986: Testaverde 1987: Brown 1988: Sanders 1989: Ware 1990: Detmer 1991: Howard

v t e 1964 College Football All-America Team consensus selections
Backfield	QB John Huarte B Larry Elkins B Gale Sayers B Tucker Frederickson
Line	E Fred Biletnikoff E Jack Snow T Larry Kramer T Ralph Neely G Rick Redman G Glenn Ressler C Dick Butkus

v t e New York Jets 1965 AFL draft selections
Joe Namath Tom Nowatzke John Huarte Verlon Biggs Bob Schweickert Glenn Sasser Don Hoovler Archie Roberts Jim Harris Rick McCurdy Jimmy Sidle Frank Lambert Jim Gray John Berrington Sonny Utz Gary Plumlee Jim Burt Seth Cartwright Bob Lehman Bill Scott Charlie Browning Mitch Dudek Troy Allen

v t e Philadelphia Eagles 1965 NFL draft selections
Ray Rissmiller Al Nelson Fred Hill John Henderson John Huarte Gary Garrison Erwin Will Al Piraino Floyd Hudlow Rick Redman Louis James John Kuzniewski John Fouse Tom Longo Otis Taylor Jim Gray Dave Austin Bill Marcordes Charley Englehart Bob Shann

v t e Philadelphia Eagles starting quarterbacks

Tommy Thompson (1950) Adrian Burk (1951–1956) Bobby Thomason (1952–1957) Sonny Jurgensen (1957, 1961–1963) Norm Van Brocklin (1958–1960) King Hill (1962–1966, 1968) Norm Snead (1964–1970) Jack Concannon (1964, 1966) John Huarte (1968) George Mira (1969) Rick Arrington (1970–1971) Pete Liske (1971–1972) John Reaves (1972) Roman Gabriel (1973–1976) Mike Boryla (1974–1976) Ron Jaworski (1977–1986) Joe Pisarcik (1984) Randall Cunningham (1985–1995) Matt Cavanaugh (1986) Scott Tinsley (1987) Jim McMahon (1991–1992) Jeff Kemp (1991) Brad Goebel (1991) Bubby Brister (1993–1994) Ken O'Brien (1993) Rodney Peete (1995–1998) Ty Detmer (1996–1997) Bobby Hoying (1997–1998) Koy Detmer (1998–1999, 2002, 2004) Doug Pederson (1999) Donovan McNabb (1999–2009) A. J. Feeley (2002, 2007) Mike McMahon (2005) Jeff Garcia (2006) Kevin Kolb (2009–2010) Michael Vick (2010–2013) Vince Young (2011) Nick Foles (2012–2014, 2017–2018) Mark Sanchez (2014–2015) Sam Bradford (2015) Carson Wentz (2016–2020) Jalen Hurts (2020–present) Gardner Minshew (2021–2022) Kenny Pickett (2024) Tanner McKee (2024)