10 Facts About Tom Nugent

Thomas N Nugent was an American college football coach and innovator, sportscaster, public relations man.

Tom Nugent served as the head football coach at the Virginia Military Institute, Florida State University, and the University of Maryland.

Tom Nugent worked as a fitness instructor for deploying officers, and later, as the director of entertainment of a military installation in Missouri.

Tom Nugent began his football coaching career at the interscholastic level in Virginia.

Tom Nugent began giving coaching clinics on the I formation, and in 1961, John McKay replaced his pro T with the I at Southern California.

Tom Nugent took over as head coach at Florida State University in 1953, and brought with him the I formation.

Tom Nugent remained the last Maryland coach to win his inaugural game with the team until Ralph Friedgen matched that feat in 2001.

Tom Nugent has been inducted into the Florida Sports Hall of Fame.

Tom Nugent was married to wife Peg in 1941, and the couple had five sons and four daughters.

Tom Nugent retired, first to Indian Harbor Beach, Florida in the 1980s, and then the Westminster Oaks Health Center in Tallahassee, Florida, where he died of congestive heart failure on January 19,2006.