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The San Jose State Spartans represent San José State University in NCAA Division I FBS college football. The Spartans play all home games in Spartan Stadium, which offers a seating capacity of just over 30,000. The current head coach is Ron Caragher. In Mike MacIntyre's third season as head coach, the 2012 San Jose State Spartans football team finished the season with an 11-2 win-loss record, a victory over Bowling Green in the 2012 Military Bowl, and its first post-season national ranking since 1990. On July 1, 2013, SJSU left the Western Athletic Conference, the Spartans' conference home of 17 years, to begin competing in the Mountain West Conference. ==History== (詳細はSan Francisco State on October 7, 1933. Two stadium expansions and renovations in the 1980s increased the seating capacity from 18,000 to 30,456. The San Jose State Spartans football team served unexpectedly with the Honolulu Police Department during World War II. The team had just arrived in Hawaii to play a series of post-season bowl games against the University of Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors and the Willamette University Bearcats when the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. The team was stranded on the islands for a number of weeks following the attack, and players were employed by the local police department to help improve island defenses against a possible Japanese amphibious assault and as guards for military bases on the island. The Spartan football program posted just six winning seasons in the 1950s and '60s, but would later enter a "golden age" beginning in 1973, when the Spartans posted 15 winning seasons, appeared in four bowl games and sent nearly 50 players to the NFL over a 20-year stretch. SJSU's first win over a nationally ranked opponent occurred in 1971 when the Spartans defeated #10 Stanford 13-12 on November 13. Stanford would go on to defeat the University of Michigan in the Rose Bowl that season.〔 SJSU's second win over a ranked opponent occurred four years later in 1975, when the Spartans defeated #18 Stanford 36-34 in a nationally televised game on September 27.〔 SJSU's only other victories over ranked opponents include a 30-22 win over #10 Baylor in 1980, a 42-7 win over #23 Fresno State in 1990, a 25-22 win over #24 Air Force in 1997, a 27-24 win over #9 TCU in 2000, and a 62-52 win over #16 Fresno State in 2013.〔 SJSU first appeared in the national rankings in 1939 when the AP Poll ranked the Spartans #19 in week seven. The team would climb to #18 in week eight. The Spartans did not appear in a national poll again until 1975 when the team was ranked #20 in the AP Poll in week 13.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/san-jose-state/polls.html )〕 SJSU garnered its first post-season national ranking in 1990 when the Spartans finished #20 in the Coaches Poll. SJSU would not appear in the post-season national rankings again until 2012 when the Spartans finished #21 in both the AP Poll and Coaches Poll.〔 The ''San Jose Mercury News'' reported in March 2004 that budget cuts led some faculty members at San Jose State to advocate removing the SJSU football program from Division IA athletics. In 2004, San Jose State defeated the Rice Owls 70-63 in a game that set the NCAA Division I record for total points scored and total touchdowns for a non-overtime game. From 2005 through the 2009 season, the San Jose State football program was hit with heavy NCAA sanctions for failing to meet Academic Progress Rate (APR) standards. By the start of 2009 season, the Spartans had lost 57 scholarships over a four-year period. By the spring of 2010, the NCAA penalties were lifted and a full complement of 85 scholarships was restored. SJSU has produced over 70 All-America team members, including five first-team selections.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「San Jose State Spartans football」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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