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| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1891-10-08)October 8, 1891 Jefferson City, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Died | January 19, 1980(1980-01-19) (aged 88) Austin, Texas, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1910s | Carson–Newman |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1913–1915 | Mississippi College |
| 1916 | LSU |
| 1917 | Texas A&M |
| 1919–1928 | Texas A&M |
| 1929–1936 | Nebraska |
| 1937–1946 | Texas |
| Basketball | |
| 1920–1927 | Texas A&M |
| Baseball | |
| 1920–1921 | Texas A&M |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1932–1936 | Nebraska |
| 1937–1956 | Texas |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 198–72–23 (football) 90–47 (basketball) 29–10–1 (baseball) |
| Bowls | 3–0–1 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Football 2National (1919, 1927) 8SWC (1917, 1919, 1921, 1925, 1927, 1942–1943, 1945) 6Big Six (1929, 1931–1933, 1935–1936) | |
| Awards | |
| Amos Alonzo Stagg Award (1954) | |
| College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1951 (profile) | |
Dana Xenophon Bible (October 8, 1891 – January 19, 1980) was an Americanfootball player, coach of football,basketball, andbaseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach atMississippi College (1913–1915),Louisiana State University (1916),[1]Texas A&M University (1917, 1919–1928),[2] theUniversity of Nebraska (1929–1936), and theUniversity of Texas (1937–1946), compiling a careercollege football record of 198–72–23. Bible was also the head basketball coach at Texas A&M from 1920 to 1927 and the head baseball coach there from 1920 to 1921. In addition, he was theathletic director at Nebraska from 1932 to 1936 and at Texas from 1937 to 1956. Bible was inducted into theCollege Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951.
Bible was born inJefferson City, Tennessee. He graduated from Jefferson City High School in 1908 and received aB.A. degree fromCarson–Newman College in 1912. Bible played football while in college and was a member ofDelta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, Iota chapter.
Bible began his coaching career at Brandon Prep School inShelbyville, Tennessee.Mississippi College recruited him to coach in 1912, and he was recruited to coach forTexas A&M University in 1916.[3]
In his college football coaching career, Bible compiled a record of 198–72–23. His teams had winning records in thirty of the thirty-three seasons he coached. Bible twice won ten games in a season. Bible also coachedbaseball andbasketball at Texas A&M.[2] During his hiatus from Texas A&M in 1918, Bible served as pilot inWorld War I.
Bible's1917 Texas A&M Aggies football team was undefeated, untied, and did not surrender a single point all season outscoring opponents 270–0. His1919 Texas A&M Aggies football team repeated the feat, outscoring the opposition 275–0. The 1919 team was retroactively named anational champion by theBillingsley Report and theNational Championship Foundation.Texas A&M football under Bible is the only college football program to hold all opponents scoreless in two separate seasons.
In ten seasons atUniversity of Texas at Austin, Bible brought theLonghorns football program to national prominence, winning threeSouthwest Conference championships, making three appearances at theCotton Bowl Classic—two victorious, and placing in the finalAP Poll rankings five times.[4]
While at Texas,University of Chicago coachClark Shaughnessy contacted Bible to organize a clinic on theT formation. Along withFrank Leahy of theUniversity of Notre Dame, they helped create the T formation revolution. Bible was elected to theCollege Football Hall of Fame in 1951, theTexas Sports Hall of Fame in 1959, the Longhorn Hall of Honor in 1960, and the Texas A&M Athletic Hall of Fame in 1966. He was the 1954 recipient of theAmos Alonzo Stagg Award.
Bible served on the National Collegiate Football Rules Committee for 25 years, and was president of theAmerican Football Coaches Association. His book,Championship Football, was published in 1947.
Bible was the son of Jonathan David Bible (October 9, 1863 inCocke County, Tennessee – November 23, 1942) and Cleopatra I. Willis (October 19, 1870 – January 25, 1954). The couple married on June 20, 1889. Jonathan was a college professor atCarson–Newman College inJefferson City, Tennessee; he could quote biblical scripture and was a Greek and Latin scholar.
Bible married Rowena Rhodes on December 19, 1923. They had two children, William and Barbara. Rowena died in 1942. Dana married Agnes Stacy in 1944, and they would later divorce in 1950. He married Dorothy Gilstrap on February 2, 1952.
Bible died on January 19, 1980, and is interred at Austin Memorial Park Cemetery inAustin, Texas.
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | AP# | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi College Collegians(Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association)(1913–1915) | |||||||||
| 1913 | Mississippi College | 6–3 | 1–2 | 11th | |||||
| 1914 | Mississippi College | 4–3–1 | 0–1–1 | 14th | |||||
| 1915 | Mississippi College | 3–3–1 | 2–3 | 15th | |||||
| Mississippi College: | 12–7–2 | 3–6–1 | |||||||
| LSU Tigers(Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association)(1916) | |||||||||
| 1916 | LSU | 1–0–2* | 1–0–1* | 7th | |||||
| LSU: | 1–0–2 | 1–0–1 | *First 7 games coached were byE. T. MacDonnell andIrving Pray. | ||||||
| Texas A&M Aggies(Southwest Conference)(1917) | |||||||||
| 1917 | Texas A&M | 8–0 | 3–0 | 1st | |||||
| Texas A&M Aggies(Southwest Conference)(1919–1928) | |||||||||
| 1919 | Texas A&M | 10–0 | 4–0 | 1st | |||||
| 1920 | Texas A&M | 6–1–1 | 5–1 | 3rd | |||||
| 1921 | Texas A&M | 6–1–2 | 3–0–2 | 1st | WDixie Classic | ||||
| 1922 | Texas A&M | 5–4 | 2–2 | T–3rd | |||||
| 1923 | Texas A&M | 5–3–1 | 0–3–1 | 8th | |||||
| 1924 | Texas A&M | 7–2–1 | 2–2–1 | 4th | |||||
| 1925 | Texas A&M | 7–1–1 | 4–1–0 | 1st | |||||
| 1926 | Texas A&M | 5–3–1 | 1–3–1 | 6th | |||||
| 1927 | Texas A&M | 8–0–1 | 4–0–1 | 1st | |||||
| 1928 | Texas A&M | 5–4–1 | 1–3–1 | 5th | |||||
| Texas A&M: | 72–19–9 | 27–15–7 | |||||||
| Nebraska Cornhuskers(Big Six Conference)(1929–1936) | |||||||||
| 1929 | Nebraska | 4–1–3 | 3–0–2 | 1st | |||||
| 1930 | Nebraska | 4–3–2 | 2–2–1 | 4th | |||||
| 1931 | Nebraska | 8–2 | 5–0 | 1st | |||||
| 1932 | Nebraska | 7–1–1 | 5–0 | 1st | |||||
| 1933 | Nebraska | 8–1 | 5–0 | 1st | |||||
| 1934 | Nebraska | 6–3 | 4–1 | 2nd | |||||
| 1935 | Nebraska | 6–2–1 | 4–0–1 | 1st | |||||
| 1936 | Nebraska | 7–2 | 5–0 | 1st | 9 | ||||
| Nebraska: | 50–15–7 | 33–3–4 | |||||||
| Texas Longhorns(Southwest Conference)(1937–1946) | |||||||||
| 1937 | Texas | 2–6–1 | 1–5 | 7th | |||||
| 1938 | Texas | 1–8 | 1–5 | T–6th | |||||
| 1939 | Texas | 5–4 | 3–3 | 4th | |||||
| 1940 | Texas | 8–2 | 4–2 | T–3rd | |||||
| 1941 | Texas | 8–1–1 | 4–1–1 | 2nd | 4 | ||||
| 1942 | Texas | 9–2 | 5–1 | 1st | WCotton | 11 | |||
| 1943 | Texas | 7–1–1 | 5–0 | 1st | TCotton | 14 | |||
| 1944 | Texas | 5–4 | 3–2 | 2nd | |||||
| 1945 | Texas | 10–1 | 5–1 | 1st | WCotton | 10 | |||
| 1946 | Texas | 8–2 | 4–2 | 3rd | 15 | ||||
| Texas: | 63–31–3 | 35–22–1 | |||||||
| Total: | 198–72–23 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth | |||||||||
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