Shirley Majors

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Shirley Majors

Sport(s)	Football
Biographical details
Born	(1913-05-07)May 7, 1913 Moore County, Tennessee
Died	April 5, 1981(1981-04-05) (aged 67) Westmoreland, Tennessee
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1949–1956 1957–1977	Huntland HS (TN) Sewanee
Head coaching record
Overall	93–74–5 (college) 108–24–2 (high school)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse

Shirley Majors (May 7, 1913 – April 5, 1981) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Huntland High School in Franklin County, Tennessee from 1949 to 1956 and at Sewanee: The University of the South from 1957 to 1977. At Sewanee, he compiled a record of 93–74–5.

Majors was the patriarch of a football family. His sons included two All-Americans in football at the University of Tennessee, Bobby and Johnny, Bill, who was an assistant at Tennessee until his death in an auto accident in 1965, Larry, who played for Tennessee, and Joe, who played at Florida State University and with the Houston Oilers of the National Football League.^[1]^[2]^[3] The Majors athletes were inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame as a family in 1966.^[4]

Head coaching record

College

Year	Team	Overall
Sewanee Tigers (Independent) (1957–1961)
1957	Sewanee	5–2–1
1958	Sewanee	8–0
1959	Sewanee	4–3–1
1960	Sewanee	4–3–1
1961	Sewanee	5–2–1
Sewanee Tigers (Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1962–1977)
1962	Sewanee	4–3–1
1963	Sewanee	8–0
1964	Sewanee	8–1
1965	Sewanee	7–1
1966	Sewanee	2–6
1967	Sewanee	5–3
1968	Sewanee	4–4
1969	Sewanee	2–6
1970	Sewanee	2–6
1971	Sewanee	2–6
1972	Sewanee	3–5
1973	Sewanee	5–3
1974	Sewanee	2–6
1975	Sewanee	6–3
1976	Sewanee	5–4
1977	Sewanee	2–6
Sewanee:		93–74–5
Total:		93–74–5

References

↑ UPI (April 7, 1981). "Shirley Majors of Football Family In Tennessee, a Longtime Coach". The New York Times. Retrieved June 7, 2010.
↑ Rhoden, William C. (September 27, 1992). "COLLEGE FOOTBALL; Nice Homecoming for Majors". The New York Times. Retrieved June 7, 2010.
↑ Whitehouse, Ken (January 4, 2007). "Prominent lobbyist dies in his sleep". NashvillePost.com. Retrieved June 7, 2010.
↑ "Inductees". Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved June 7, 2010.

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Sewanee Tigers head football coaches

F. G. Sweat (1891–1893)
Herbert C. Foss (1894)
R. M. Reynolds (1895)
J. E. Blair (1896)
John Gere Jayne (1897–1898)
Herman M. Suter (1899–1901)
L. W. Boynton (1902)
George S. Whitney (1903–1904)
Willard Curtis Hyatt (1905)
James John Quill (1906)
Arthur G. Erwin (1907)
Harry Van Surdam (1908)
Harris G. Cope (1909–1916)
Charles Best (1917–1918)
Earl Abell (1919–1920)
John P. Nicholson (1921–1922)
M. S. Bennett (1923–1928)
W. H. Kirkpatrick (1929)
Harvey Harman (1930)
Harry E. Clark (1931–1939)
Jenks Gillem (1940–1941)
No team (1942–1945)
William C. White (1946–1953)
Ernie Williamson (1954–1956)
Shirley Majors (1957–1977)
Horace Moore (1978–1986)
Bill Samko (1987–1993)
Al Logan (1994–1995)
John Windham (1996–2006)
Robert Black (2007–2010)
Tommy Laurendine (2011– )

Persondata
Name	Majors, Shirley
Alternative names
Short description	American football coach
Date of birth	May 7, 1913
Place of birth	Moore County, Tennessee
Date of death	April 5, 1981
Place of death	Westmoreland, Tennessee

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