Whit Taylor

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Whit Taylor was a star quarterback for the Vanderbilt University football team in the early 1980s, and quarterbacked that school's most recent winning team to an 8-4 record in 1982. Failing to achieve a career in the National Football League, he was a backup quarterback for the Michigan Panthers of the United States Football League and then became quarterback of the Denver Dynamite of the Arena Football League in 1987, and in that year became the first player ever to pass for ten touchdowns in any professional game of American football, a record which stood for over a decade. He worked as a high school football coach and teacher in the Middle Tennessee area at Shelbyville Central High School, his high school alma mater. In 2006, he left coaching to go into educational administration. He is currently assistant principal at Harris Middle School.