- Football coach.
- Assistant coach for the University of Kentucky (1959-1960), University of Alabama (1961-1965), Los Angeles Rams (1966-1969) and Miami Dolphins (1970-1972, 1975-1978). Head coach for the Baltimore Colts (1973-1974), University of Miami (1979-1983), University of Louisville (1985-1994), University of Oklahoma (1995) and Florida Atlantic University (2001-present). He also is the athletic director of FAU. In addition, Schnellenberger accepted an offer to coach an unnamed Orlando team in the United States Football league but the team folded before playing a game.
- Started the football program at Florida Atlantic University.
- Assistant coach of the University of Albama's 1961, 1964 and 1965 national championship teams. Assistant coach of the Miami Dolphins' 1972 Super Bowl championship team - the only undefeated team in the National Football League since that league began using playoffs to determine its champion. Head coach of the University of Miami's national championship team.
- Upon accepted the head coaching position at the University of Oklahoma, he boldly predicted that movies would be made and books written about the triumphs ahead. The team's media guide in Schnellenberger's debut season at UO - 1995 - was 396 pages long and was mailed in boxes rather than envelopes. But the Sooners finished the season 5-5-1, their worst record in 30 years, and Schnellenberger resigned shortly afterward under intense pressure to do so.
- Met his wife, Beverlee Donnelly, when he played for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League and she was a cheerleader for that team.
- Because of a tragic coincidence, Schnellenberger ended his career as the oldest active head coach in the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division I-A). At the age of 77, he began the 2011 season as the second oldest head coach in the FBS, behind Penn State's Joe Paterno, 84. But on November 9, Paterno was fired amid the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal. Schnellenberger, who had already announced that he would retire at the end of the season, coached his last game 24 days after Paterno's firing.
- 6-0 as a head coach in bowl games, holding the NCAA record for most bowl games without a loss.
- He was the son of Rosena (Hoffman) and Leslie Schnellenberger.
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