1. Daniel Earle McGugin was an American college football player and coach, as well as a lawyer.
36 Facts About Dan McGugin
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Dan McGugin is the winningest head coach in the history of the university.
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Dan McGugin played football for Drake and for the "Point-a-Minute" Michigan teams.
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Dan McGugin was the brother-in-law of University of Michigan coach Fielding H Yost.
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Dan McGugin was born in July 1879 on a farm near Tingley, Iowa.
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Dan McGugin was the son of Benjamin Franklin McGugin and Melissa McGugin.
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Dan McGugin enrolled at Drake University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1901.
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Dan McGugin was a player on Michigan's "Point-a-Minute" teams that outscored their opponents, 1,211 to 12 in 1901 and 1902, and served as Yost's assistant coach at Michigan in 1903.
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Dan McGugin is the lightest guard that Michigan has had in the last ten years, but he has not met his match during the past two seasons.
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Dan McGugin gets the jump on his opponents and keeps the advantage.
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Dan McGugin was married to Virginia Louise Fite on December 6,1905, in Detroit, Michigan.
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In 1904, Dan McGugin wrote to Vanderbilt University asking for its head coaching position, and was hired at a salary of $850 per year plus board.
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Dan McGugin had written to Western Reserve, and was prepared to accept the job there when he received the telegram saying he received the Vanderbilt job.
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Dan McGugin remained the head football coach for the Vanderbilt Commodores from 1904 to 1917 and from 1919 to 1934.
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Dan McGugin had numerous intersectional triumphs: defeating the Carlisle Indians in 1906, and tying the Navy Midshipmen in 1907, the Yale Bulldogs in 1910, and the Michigan Wolverines in 1922.
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Dan McGugin was named to the Vanderbilt Athletics Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class.
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Dan McGugin won each of his first 11 games by more than 20 points.
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Dan McGugin had his team practice the pass by playing baseball with a football.
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Dan McGugin took time off from coaching to work in the mining business during the First World War.
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Dan McGugin had a lion's heart, and now a hero's death.
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For many years after Curry's death, Dan McGugin had three photographs displayed over his desk.
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Dan McGugin read military history, and before a tough game enjoyed reading about Lee's strategies.
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Dan McGugin will be degraded in the hearts of the rest as long as they live.
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Dan McGugin was considered the greatest drop kicker in school history.
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Dan McGugin remains the most successful Vanderbilt head football coach in the history of the program.
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Dan McGugin selected: Bull Brown, Josh Cody, Lew Hardage, Ray Morrison, Bill Spears, and Hek Wakefield as the six best players he ever coached.
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Dan McGugin was a corporate lawyer in the offseason, and maintained an active office in Nashville.
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Dan McGugin worked in the First National Bank Building, and his law partner was John R Austin.
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Dan McGugin died of heart failure in 1936, just two years after quitting the coaching profession and taking on the position of athletic director.
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Dan McGugin was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural 1951 class.
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Dan McGugin was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 1966.
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Dan McGugin was inducted into the Iowa Sports Hall of Fame.
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The plain facts of the business are that Dan McGugin stood out in the South like Gulliver among the native sons of Lilliput.
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Dan McGugin was a great play-maker, but football was a sport for the beloved McGugin and law was his profession.
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Dan McGugin was the first coach to successfully work the onside kick.
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Dan McGugin was among the first to bring out guards in the interference.