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Southern football spectacularly emerged from obscurity in 1906 when the late Dan McGugin, brother-in-law and onetime pupil of Michigan's great Fielding H. Yost, coached a team at Vanderbilt University which scored a 4-to-o victory over the football sensation of the age, Pennsylvania's Carlisle Indians. It emerged again after the War when Centre College, an almost unheard of institution of 200 students at Danville, Ky. flared up briefly with All-America Quarterback Bo McMillin* and upset a string of topflight U. S. teams...
...cavalry captain, Wallace Wade surprised his neighbors by entering the apparently unpromising profession of football coach and athletic director, at Fitzgerald & Clarke Military School (now defunct) at Tullahoma, Tenn. When Fitzgerald & Clarke football teams won the State prep-school championship two years in a row, Coach Dan McGugin asked him to come to Vanderbilt as his assistant...
...McGugin, who was. born in Iowa but prefaced intersectional games with profane locker room descriptions of Sherman's March to the Sea, was the father of Southern football. Other schools began speculating about Dan McGugin's new assistant when for two years (1921-22) Vanderbilt produced undefeated teams. In 1922 both Kentucky and Alabama offered Wade their head coaching jobs. Wallace Wade went to be interviewed in Lexington where there occurred one of the crucial episodes in the history of Southern football. Having practically decided to take the Kentucky job, Wallace Wade waited in an anteroom while...
Died. Colonel Daniel Earle ("Smiling Dan") McGugin, 56, lawyer, longtime (1904-34) Vanderbilt University football coach, since 1934 Vanderbilt athletic director, known as "dean of Southern football coaches"; of a sudden heart attack; in Nashville...
...Long led the university's 125-piece band, made a speech expressing his thanks for the reception. During the game, he functioned as cheerleader. Just before it ended, he rushed across the field, while Vanderbilt's Dixon was punting, began yelping at Vanderbilt's Coach Dan McGugin...