Dan Henning '64

A savvy and wily coaching veteran, Dan Henning '64 oversaw the resurrection of the Carolina Panthers offense. As an offensive coordinator for the Panthers, Henning has displayed an ability to adjust and produce from season to season and within seasons, and that resourcefulness never was more evident than in 2005. The 391 points scored by the Panthers that year were the second-highest total in team history and improved on the fourth-best scoring season of 355 points the previous year. Also, Carolina ranked mong the leaders in pass plays of 20 yards or more for the fourth consecutive year in 2005, tying for fourth after finishing seventh in 2003 and third in 2002. In Henning's four years as offensive coordinator, the Panthers stood fourth in the NFL with 201 total pass plays greater than 20 yards. Henning served the Panthers from 2002-06.

In 26 years of coaching in the NFL, Henning has worked with some of the most successful head coaches in league history, including Don Shula, Joe Gibbs and Bill Parcells, and has helped develop quarterbacks Joe Theismann, Don Strock, Doug Williams and Vinny Testaverde.

Since entering the NFL in 1972 with the Houston Oilers, Henning has served in various roles, including head coach, offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach and wide receivers coach. A valued member of Joe Gibbs' staff at Washington in the 1980's, he assisted in the Redskins' drives to Super Bowl XVII and XXII titles.

Following an outstanding career as a quarterback at William and Mary, where he ranked 14th nationally in passing yardage during his senior season in 1963, Henning went to training camp with the San Diego Chargers in 1964 before playing two years in the Continental Football League. Re-signed by San Diego prior to the 1966 season, he remained with the Chargers until the 1967 preseason and finished his playing career with Norfolk of the Continental Football League. Henning was an All-City performer in football at St. Francis Prep in Brooklyn, N.Y., in addition to being a standout in basketball and baseball.

Henning coached at the collegiate level at Florida State (1968-70, 1974), Virginia Tech (1971, 1973) and at Boston College from 1994-96 as the Eagles' head coach.

Most football fans know Henning as a professional coach. He started with the Houston Oilers (1972), then onto the New York Jets (1976-78 and 1998-2000), Miami Dolphins (1979-80), Washington Redskins (1981-82 and 1987-88), the Atlanta Falcons -- where he served as head coach from 1983-86 as well as with the San Diego Chargers 1989-91 the Detroit Lions (1992-93), Buffalo Bills (1997), New York Jets (1998-2000) and finally with the Panthers from 2002-06. -- Source: Carolina Panthers

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