Dana X. Bible

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Dana X. Bible
Born	October 8, 1891(1891-10-08)
Place of birth	Jefferson City, TN
Died	January 19, 1980 (aged 88)
Place of death	Austin, Texas
Career highlights
Overall	198-72-23
Coaching stats
College Football DataWarehouse
Playing career
1910s	Carson-Newman UNC
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1912 1913-1915 1916 1917 1919-1928 1929-1936 1937-1946	Brandon Prep Mississippi College LSU Texas A&M Texas A&M Nebraska Texas
College Football Hall of Fame, 1951 (Bio)

Dana Xenophon Bible (October 8, 1891 – January 19, 1980) was a highly successful college football head coach. He is most well known for his excellent coaching at Texas A&M, Nebraska, and Texas. Throughout his career he compiled a 198-72-23 (.715) record. 30 out of his 33 seasons were winning seasons. He twice won 10 games in a season.

Bible's 1919 football team at Texas A&M University, which was undefeated and untied and outscored the opposition 275-0, was retroactively named national champions by the National Championship Foundation. Coach Bible, while at Texas, was contacted by University of Chicago coach Clark Shaughnessy to organize a clinic on the T formation. Along with Frank Leahy of Notre Dame, they helped create the T formation revolution. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 and the Longhorn Hall of Honor in 1960. His book Championship Football was published in 1947. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

Family

Dana Xenophon Bible was the son of Jonathan David Bible (October 9, 1863 in Cocke County, Tennessee – November 23. 1942) and Cleopatra I. Willis (October 19, 1870 – January 25, 1954). They were married on June 20, 1889. Jonathan was a college professor at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee who could quote biblical scripture and was a Greek and Latin scholar. Dana was married to Rowena Rhodes on December 19, 1923. They had children William and Barbara. Rowena died in 1942. He then married Agnes Stacy in 1944 and they were divorced in 1950. He married Dorothy Gilstrap on February 2, 1952.

Education

Dana graduated from Jefferson City High School in 1908. He received a B.A. degree from Carson-Newman in 1912. He was an outstanding football player at Carson-Newman.

While at college, Dana Bible became a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Iota chapter).

Coaching chronology

• 1913 to 1915 Coached Mississippi College to a 12-7-2 record.
• 1916 Coached Louisiana State to a 1-0-2 record.
• 1917 Coached Texas A&M to a 8-0-0 record.
• 1918 Served in World War I.
• 1919 to 1928 Coached Texas A&M in three sports:
  • 1919 to 1928 Coached Texas A&M football to a 64-19-9 record.
  • 1920 to 1921 Coached Texas A&M baseball to a 29-10-1 record.
  • 1921 to 1927 Coached Texas A&M men's basketball to a 90-41 record.
• 1929 to 1936 Coached Nebraska to a 50-15-7 record.
• 1937 to 1946 Coached Texas to a 63-31-3 record.

Football records

Head coaching record

External links

• http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/bibledan.shtml
• http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=170
• Zoominfo

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