PAUL BEAR BRYANT +12 Famous College Coaches PSA DNA coa
LSU ALABAMA OLE MISS MICHIGAN FLORIDA AUBURN TENNESSEE
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Item Description: It is signed by 13 famous coaches. I am pretty sure that most of the Coaches on this card have passed away. I will list the ones I know. A few of the names I decided to look up in the College Football Hall of Fame and Wikipedia online Encyclopedia and this is the information I got. Comes with a COA from PSA DNA and is numbered and certified by PSA DNA # D66566. Many of these coaches have stadiums named after them and to have them on one card is incredible. This is definatley one of my most prized items. Thank you for looking. Hand signed by the following: Charles McClendon @ LSU Charles Youmans McClendon (1923–2001), also known as "Charlie" McClendon or "Cholly Mac," was born on October 17, 1923 in Lewisville, Arkansas. McClendon is best known as the LSU head football coach whose tenure spanned the 1960s and the 1970s. As a result of his head coaching career, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1986. McClendon played college football under Bear Bryant at Kentucky. In addition to the LSU football coaching record for longest tenure (18 years), McClendon holds the LSU record for most wins (137 [which includes 2 forfeits to LSU]), most losses (59), most bowl appearances (13), most bowl wins (7), and most bowl losses (6). After his retirement from LSU, McClendon became the executive director of the Tangerine Bowl (which would later be renamed the Capital One Bowl) from 1980 to 1981. He was also the president of the American Football Coaches Association in 1979 and executive director from 1982 to 1994. The practice facility at LSU was named in his memory on September 9, 2002, nine months after his death on December 6, 2001. Ironically, his death came just two days before LSU won its first outright SEC championship in 15 years under then Coach Nick Saban. Paul Bryant @ BAMA Ten-time Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year, Four-time National Coach of the Year. The national coach of the year award was subsequently named the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award in his honor. In February 1983 President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Bryant was honored with a U.S. postage stamp in 1996. Alabama's Bryant-Denny Stadium was named for him in 1975 as well as a high school and a major street that runs through the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa Ralph Jordan @ AUBURN James Ralph "Shug" Jordan (JURD-an) (September 25, 1910 - July 17, 1980) was the winningest football coach at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. The university's Jordan-Hare Stadium is named in his honor. Jordan was named National Coach of the Year in 1957 when Auburn was voted national champions by the Associated Press. Bobby Dodd @ TENNESSEE While Bobby Dodd was a determined competitor, he cared deeply for those who played for him. Unlike other coaches that he faced in the SEC, he did not believe in winning at any costs; he truly believed that the most important aspect of college football was the college football player. As a testament to the character of Bobby Dodd, each year a Division I college coach who has demonstrated leadership both on and off the field is awarded the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award (presented by the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Foundation). He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1959 and as a coach in 1993. In 1988, Georgia Tech named its stadium Bobby Dodd Stadium in honor of the legendary coach. Paul Dietzel @ LSU (Born September 5, 1924, in Fremont, Ohio) is a former college football head coach at LSU, Army and South Carolina. He is also a former athletic director. He led the LSU Tigers to a national championship in 1958, a performance for which he was named the National Coach of the Year by both AFCA and FWAA. Dietzel began his football career in Mansfield, Ohio, where his high school team went undefeated and tied for 2nd in the state. After high school, he was given a scholarship to play football at Duke University. After one year at Duke he served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. From there he moved on to Miami University of Ohio, where he became an All-American at center. After graduating from Miami in 1948, he began his coaching career as an assistant coach. He served under such legendary coaches as Red Blaik at Army and Bear Bryant at the University of Kentucky. In 1955, Dietzel became the head coach at LSU. During Dietzel's first three years, none of his LSU teams had a winning season. In 1958, however, Dietzel came up with a unique 3-team platoon system. It consisted of 3 teams of 11 different players, and was designed to keep his players from being fatigued in an era when most players started on both offense and defense. Instead of replacing individual players during the game, Dietzel would bring in an entirely new set of players between plays and series. The three teams were called the White Team (the first-string offense and defense), the Gold (Go) Team (the second-string offense), and the Chinese Bandits (the second-string defense). The system worked, as the Tigers went undefeated and won the 1958 national championship. The Chinese Bandits second-string defensive unit, which consisted of less-talented but ferocious players, became hugely popular with LSU fans and remains one of the most legendary pieces of LSU football history. Jess Neely @ RICE and HOUSTON Jess C. Neely (January 4, 1898 - April 9, 1983) was a Hall of Fame college football coach at Clemson and Rice. He played college football at Vanderbilt 1920-22. Three players from those teams, coached by Daniel Earle McGugin, were inducted as coaches into the College Football Hall of Fame: Neely, Red Sanders, and William Wallace Wade. His football coaching career began at Rhodes College (then Southwestern), where he complied an 18-15-2 record from 1924-1927. He was an assistant at Alabama 1928-1930 and was also head baseball coach 1929-1930, with a 28-15-2 record. From 1931 to 1939, he coached at Clemson, and compiled a 43-35-7 record. From 1940 to 1966, he coached at Rice, and compiled a 144-124-10 record. This makes him by far the winningest coach in Rice history. Neeley won the first 4 bowl games he coached: 1940 Cotton Bowl (with Clemson), 1946 Orange Bowl, 1949 and 1953 Cotton Bowls (with Rice). With Rice he lost the last 3 bowl games he coached: 1957 Cotton Bowl, 1960 Sugar Bowl, and 1961 BlueBonnett Bowl. After the 1966 season, he returned to Vanderbilt as athletic director. In 1967, he received the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award. He was listed as number 39 in Sports Illustrated's list of 50 Greatest Tennessee Sports Figures of the 20th Century Ray Graves @ FLORIDA Graves started his coaching career as a defensive coach at Georgia Tech, under head coach Bobby Dodd.[1] Under these two coaches, along with offensive coach Frank Broyles, the Yellow Jackets won the 1951 Orange Bowl and the 1952 Sugar Bowl. Graves was hired as Florida's head coach in 1960 to replace fellow Tennessee alumnus Bob Woodruff. Graves led Florida to five bowl appearances during his tenure and coached several outstanding players at Florida, including 1966 Heisman Trophy recipient Steve Spurrier (1963-1966) and NFL Hall of Fame inductee Jack Youngblood (1968-1970). One of the highlights of the Graves era was a 10-6 upset victory over Bear Bryant's 1962 Alabama team at Tuscaloosa. Alabama would not lose again in Tuscaloosa until 1982. Perhaps his greatest legacy, Graves invited Dr. Robert Cade, then a Florida professor, to begin the experiments that led to the invention of Gatorade, and informed friend and Kansas City Chiefs head coach Hank Stram of the drink's effectiveness, a move that would eventually lead to Gatorade becoming the official sports drink of the NFL. In 1969, despite achieving an all time record at Florida of 70-31-4,[2] Graves stepped down to make room for Doug Dickey to return to his alma mater as head coach for the 1970 season. Graves would serve as athletic director at Florida from 1971 through 1980. Graves would remain the winningest coach in Florida football history until his former player, Steve Spurrier, surpassed him in 1996[3]. The Athletic Office at University of Florida's Ben Hill Griffin Stadium was named in honor of Graves during the 2005 Gator Football season. Bump Elliot @ MICHIGAN Elliott was the head coach of the University of Michigan football team from 1959 to 1968. As Michigan's head coach, Elliott posted a career record of 51-42-2, for a .547 winning percentage. In Big Ten Conference play, his record was 32-34-2 (.485). Although his tenure at Michigan was unsuccessful by the school's historic standards, he did lead the 1964 Wolverines to a 9-1 record, a Big Ten title and a win in the Rose Bowl against Oregon State. His final team, in 1968, won eight of its first nine games but then suffered a humiliating 50-14 loss at archrival Ohio State. The defeat prompted Elliot to resign, and athletic director Don Canham hired Bo Schembechler to replace him as head coach. Schembechler would use the memory of the 1968 Ohio State loss to motivate his team the following season. Bob Ward @ MARYLAND Bob Ward became Maryland's first All-America player in 1950 as a middle guard on defense. He displayed his tremendous versatility the next season, being named All- America again in 1951 as an offensive guard. He helped spark Jim Tatum's Terrapins to a perfect 10-0 season and the National Championship in 1951, climaxed by a 28-13 conquest of Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl. Tatum called Bob Ward "the greatest football player I've seen ounce-for-ounce, and the best I've ever coached." Despite his two-time All- America acclaim, he cherished another honor even more; he was voted the Terps Most Valuable Player four straight years. Ward served as assistant football coach at Maryland, Oklahoma, Iowa State, and Army and head coach at Maryland 1967-68. When he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1980, the ceremony at New York's Waldorf-Astoria was witnessed by 12 of Ward's relatives, 16 former teammates, and his 84-year-old father. His jersey number, 28, was the first to be retired by Maryland. John McKay @ USC and OREGON In 16 years as head coach at Southern California, John McKay's teams won the MacArthur Bowl, presented annually by the National Football Foundation to the national champion, four times - 1962, 1967, 1972 and 1974. McKay's teams won 127 games, lost 40, tied 8, and were in the Rose Bowl eight times. His last nine years were astounding. The Trojans played their most famous rivals, UCLA and Notre Dame, 18 games and lost only three times. John was born July 5, 1923, in Everettsville, West Virginia, a town that is now extinct. It was coal mining territory; when the coal gave out, the people moved out. John's father died when he was 13; he took a job sweeping out the general store at 5 a.m. before going to school and has maintained a lifelong reputation for hard, honest work. After high school in Shinniston, West Virginia, John worked a year in the mines, served four years in the Air Force, and finally reached college at age 23. He attended Purdue one year, Oregon three years, and was a starting back on the football team at both places. Pro football offered him a playing contract, but he turned it down to begin a coaching career, and here is the record: assistant coach, Oregon 1950-58; assistant coach, Southern California, 1959; head coach Southern California, 1960-75; head coach, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 1976-84. McKay also served as director of athletics at Southern California. He served as president of the American Football Coaches Association. The school was in the Pac-8 Conference. In 16 years McKay lost only 17 conference games. He coached 40 All-Americans including Heisman Trophy winners O. J. Simpson and Mike Garrett. Other stars included Lynn Swann, Pat Haden, Ron Yary, and Charlie Young. In 1974, he wrote a book, "McKay a Coach's Story." McKay died June 10, 2001. Adam Walsh @ NOTRE DAME and COLUMBIA LED THE FAMOUS 4 HORSEMEN. Adam Walsh was the captain of the most glamorous football force in gridiron history - the 1924 Notre Dame team which spotlighted the Four Horsemen backfield and Seven Mules line. Walsh, a 6-0, 190-pound center, was the inspirational core of that unbeaten band of national champions. And he took his captain's role as seriously as any man who ever played the game, chiding his mates after one play, heartily praising them after the next. Walsh was a master psychologist. During the 1924 game with Army, Cadet superstar "Lighthorse Harry" Wilson was giving the Irish defense fits until Walsh began a seemingly endless banter with the unstoppable Wilson. Suddenly, Harry seemed more concerned with Walsh's talk than with gaining yardage and Notre Dame rallied to win, 13- 7. Adam made a meticulous study of each of the famed Four Horsemen, familiarizing himself with each man's peculiarities as a ball carrier. He knew exactly how each of the great backs wanted the snap-back - high or low, hard or soft. Walsh coached Bowdoin College 1935-42 with a 34-15-6 record. He coached the Cleveland Rams in 1945, and they won the National Football League. They became the Los Angeles Rams in 1946 and were second in their division. For his two years as pro coach, Walsh had a 16-5-1 record. Lou Little @ PENN and GEORGETOWN He was a man who cared more for the personal growth and well-being of his players than he did for his won-lost record. Lou Little was a gifted teacher of football but, more importantly, a coach who seemed more interested in being a humanitarian. Born in 1893, in Leominster, Massachusetts, Little grew up to become a strapping star tackle at Penn (1916-1919). From 1920 until 1923, he was a captain and coach of the Frankford Yellow Jackets, a leading pro team of the period. Serving as head coach at Georgetown University from 1924 through 1929, Little's teams compiled a 41-12-3 record. Several weeks before he began his tenure as head coach at Columbia in 1930, he told a group of alumni, "I did not come to Columbia to fail!" Over the next 27 years, Little's Lions were seldom out-thought, never out-fought. From 1936, until his retirement in 1956, he had only six winning campaigns, yet he developed many of the game's leading players, including Sid Luckman, Gene Rossides, Lou Kusserow, Ventan Yablonsky and Al Barabas. Little's pet single-wing play was the double-spin run or pass and his teams used it with immense success. A past president of the American Football Coaches Association and chairman of it's Rules Committee, Little retired in 1956 and became a member of the National Football Foundation's Executive Committee. His Columbia record: 27 years, 1930-1956, 110-110-10. Career record: 33 years, 1924-1956, 149-122-11. He was born December 6, 1893, in Leominster, MA. He died May 28, 1979. John Vaught @ TCU and OLE MISS Some say football at Ole Miss began when John Vaught began his coaching career there. Vaught was an organizer, a man who believed in detailed preparation before each game. He poured over game films and scouting reports religiously; he hated a surprise on a Saturday afternoon. University of Mississippi Chancellor Porter L. Fortune, Jr. said on John Vaught Day in 1971, "John Vaught trained the boys to become men while imparting to them some of his own extraordinary skills as an athlete." Vaught was born on May 6, 1909, in Olney, Texas. He attended Polytechnic High School in Fort Worth and was class president and valedictorian. He moved on to Texas Christian University and was an honor student, football captain, and, in 1932, All-America guard. His first college coaching job was as assistant at North Carolina 1936- 1941. Vaught served in the Navy in World War II and was a lieutenant commander. He went to the University of Mississippi as assistant coach in 1946, moved up to head coach in 1947. He retired after the 1970 season but came back to direct the team the last 8 games of 1973. Vaught's record was 190-61-12, a .745 percentage. His 1960 team was named national champion by the Football Writers Association. PLEASE REMEMBER TO PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK ONCE YOUR ITEM ARRIVES. WE WILL PROMPTLY LEAVE FEEDBACK FOR YOU, ONCE FEEDBACK IS RECIEVED. IF THERE IS A PROBLEM OR CONCERN WITH YOUR ORDER, PLEASE CONTACT US. WE WILL HELP IN ANY WAY THAT WE CAN. WE OFFER DISCOUNTED SHIPPING AND HANDLING AS IT IS USUALLY LISTED ON THE ITEMS DESCRIPTION. WE HAVE MANY REPEAT CUSTOMERS AND VALUE ALL OF YOU (CURRENT AND NEW CUSTOMERS). We are not responsible for lost or stolen items after it is delivered to the Post Office.This item is 100% Authentic & is Guaranteed to pass PSA/DNA, Global or JSA testing.... 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