Shirley Majors
Sport(s) | Football |
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Biographical details | |
Born |
Moore County, Tennessee | May 7, 1913
Died |
April 5, 1981 67) Westmoreland, Tennessee | (aged
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1949–1956 | Huntland HS (TN) |
1957–1977 | Sewanee |
Head coaching record | |
Overall |
93–74–5 (college) 108–24–2 (high school) |
Shirley Majors (May 7, 1913 – April 5, 1981) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Huntland High School in Franklin County, Tennessee from 1949 to 1956 and at Sewanee: The University of the South from 1957 to 1977. At Sewanee, he compiled a record of 93–74–5. 93 wins is the most of any Sewanee coach.
Majors was the patriarch of a football family. His sons included two All-Americans in football at the University of Tennessee, Bobby and Johnny, Bill, who was an assistant at Tennessee until his death in an auto accident in 1965, Larry, who played for Tennessee, and Joe, who played at Florida State University and with the Houston Oilers of the National Football League.[1][2][3] The Majors athletes were inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame as a family in 1966.[4]
Head coaching record
College
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Sewanee Tigers (Independent) (1957–1961) | |||||||||
1957 | Sewanee | 5–2–1 | |||||||
1958 | Sewanee | 8–0 | |||||||
1959 | Sewanee | 4–3–1 | |||||||
1960 | Sewanee | 4–3–1 | |||||||
1961 | Sewanee | 5–2–1 | |||||||
Sewanee Tigers (Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1962–1977) | |||||||||
1962 | Sewanee | 4–3–1 | |||||||
1963 | Sewanee | 8–0 | |||||||
1964 | Sewanee | 8–1 | |||||||
1965 | Sewanee | 7–1 | |||||||
1966 | Sewanee | 2–6 | |||||||
1967 | Sewanee | 5–3 | |||||||
1968 | Sewanee | 4–4 | |||||||
1969 | Sewanee | 2–6 | |||||||
1970 | Sewanee | 2–6 | |||||||
1971 | Sewanee | 2–6 | |||||||
1972 | Sewanee | 3–5 | |||||||
1973 | Sewanee | 5–3 | |||||||
1974 | Sewanee | 2–6 | |||||||
1975 | Sewanee | 6–3 | |||||||
1976 | Sewanee | 5–4 | |||||||
1977 | Sewanee | 2–6 | |||||||
Sewanee: | 93–74–5 | ||||||||
Total: | 93–74–5 |
References
- ↑ UPI (April 7, 1981). "Shirley Majors of Football Family In Tennessee, a Longtime Coach". The New York Times. Retrieved June 7, 2010.
- ↑ Rhoden, William C. (September 27, 1992). "COLLEGE FOOTBALL; Nice Homecoming for Majors". The New York Times. Retrieved June 7, 2010.
- ↑ Whitehouse, Ken (January 4, 2007). "Prominent lobbyist dies in his sleep". NashvillePost.com. Retrieved June 7, 2010.
- ↑ "Inductees". Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved June 7, 2010.