1. James Ralph "Shug" Jordan was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach of football and basketball.
10 Facts About Ralph Jordan
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Ralph Jordan has the most wins of any coach in Auburn Tigers football history.
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Ralph Jordan was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1982.
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Ralph Jordan was initiated into Theta Chi fraternity at Auburn, and he started the Delta Beta chapter of Theta Chi at the University of Georgia.
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Ralph Jordan compiled 45 wins as head basketball coach at Georgia.
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Ralph Jordan saw action in North Africa and Sicily before being wounded in the invasion of Normandy and receiving a Purple Heart and the Bronze Star.
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In 1971, Ralph Jordan coached quarterback Pat Sullivan to the Heisman Trophy.
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Ralph Jordan died on July 17,1980, at his home in Auburn, Alabama after a four-month fight with leukemia.
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Ralph Jordan met Evelyn Walker, a native of Augusta, Georgia, and a student at the University of South Carolina, when Ralph Jordan accompanied the Auburn University basketball team to a tournament there in 1934.
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Evelyn Walker Ralph Jordan served as a Panhellenic advisor on the Auburn campus and became a licensed couples counsellor.