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Jennings Bryan "Ears"Whitworth (September 17, 1908 – March 3, 1960) was an Americancollege football player and coach of football andbaseball. He served as the head football coach at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College—now known asOklahoma State University–Stillwater—from 1950 to 1954 and theUniversity of Alabama from 1955 to 1957, compiling a career college football head coaching record of 26–51–4. Whitworth also coached baseball at Alabama from 1933 to 1934 and theUniversity of Georgia in 1943, tallying a careercollege baseball coaching mark of 22–21.

From 1950 to 1954, he coached at Oklahoma A&M, and compiled a 22–27–1 record. From 1955 to 1957, he coached at Alabama, where he posted a 4–24–2 record, the worst record for a non-interim coach in school history. This included a winless 1955 season, Alabama's last winless season on the field to date, and a 14-game losing streak from 1955 to 1956. In his first year at Alabama, Whitworth was only allowed to hire two of his own coaches and forced to retain the rest of former coachHarold Drew's assistants. This includedathletic directorHank Crisp, Whitworth's boss, who was in charge of the defense. Whitworth brought assistant coach Moose Johnson with him from Oklahoma A&M. Following successive 2–7–1 seasons in 1956 and 1957, Whitworth was fired and replaced byBear Bryant. In 1951, while Whitworth was coaching Oklahoma A&M, the infamousJohnny Bright Incident, occurred in the football game inStillwater, Oklahoma, against the visitingDrake Bulldogs. Whitworth subsequently acknowledged to the press that the hit on Bright was illegal, but did not suspend the player responsible. One player later alleged that Whitworth had instigated the incident through labelling Bright a "prima donna" and expressing racist sentiments during practice.^[1]

Whitworth was an Alabama graduate and had playedtackle on the football team alongsideFred Sington. He was an assistant football coach at Alabama,Louisiana State University, and theUniversity of Georgia prior to becoming a head coach. In 1959, Whitworth returned as a line coach forWally Butts'SEC championGeorgia team.

Whitworth was the head baseball coach at Georgia in 1943, compiling a 1–10 won-loss record.

Jennings Bryan Whitworth was born September 17, 1908, inArkansas to parents James Ervin Whitworth (1870 – ?) and Lila Lee ? (1882 – ?). He married Virginia Ann Calvert (May 7, 1911, inWest Monroe, Louisiana – May 11, 2003, inBartlesville, Oklahoma) on July 21, 1936, in West Monroe, La. She was the daughter of Emmitt Griffin Calvert (1868 – 1951) and Johnnie Fletcher Tooke (1880 – 1926). Jennings died on March 3, 1960, inAthens, Georgia.

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