CINXE.COM
William Alexander (American football) - Wikipedia
<!DOCTYPE html> <html class="client-nojs vector-feature-language-in-header-enabled vector-feature-language-in-main-page-header-disabled vector-feature-sticky-header-disabled vector-feature-page-tools-pinned-disabled vector-feature-toc-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-main-menu-pinned-disabled vector-feature-limited-width-clientpref-1 vector-feature-limited-width-content-enabled vector-feature-custom-font-size-clientpref-1 vector-feature-appearance-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-night-mode-enabled skin-theme-clientpref-day vector-toc-available" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>William Alexander (American football) - Wikipedia</title> <script>(function(){var className="client-js vector-feature-language-in-header-enabled vector-feature-language-in-main-page-header-disabled vector-feature-sticky-header-disabled vector-feature-page-tools-pinned-disabled vector-feature-toc-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-main-menu-pinned-disabled vector-feature-limited-width-clientpref-1 vector-feature-limited-width-content-enabled vector-feature-custom-font-size-clientpref-1 vector-feature-appearance-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-night-mode-enabled skin-theme-clientpref-day vector-toc-available";var cookie=document.cookie.match(/(?:^|; )enwikimwclientpreferences=([^;]+)/);if(cookie){cookie[1].split('%2C').forEach(function(pref){className=className.replace(new RegExp('(^| )'+pref.replace(/-clientpref-\w+$|[^\w-]+/g,'')+'-clientpref-\\w+( |$)'),'$1'+pref+'$2');});}document.documentElement.className=className;}());RLCONF={"wgBreakFrames":false,"wgSeparatorTransformTable":["",""],"wgDigitTransformTable":["",""],"wgDefaultDateFormat":"dmy", "wgMonthNames":["","January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"],"wgRequestId":"b89aaf53-b05a-4a86-a9d9-af49afd9af4e","wgCanonicalNamespace":"","wgCanonicalSpecialPageName":false,"wgNamespaceNumber":0,"wgPageName":"William_Alexander_(American_football)","wgTitle":"William Alexander (American football)","wgCurRevisionId":1256230993,"wgRevisionId":1256230993,"wgArticleId":2675629,"wgIsArticle":true,"wgIsRedirect":false,"wgAction":"view","wgUserName":null,"wgUserGroups":["*"],"wgCategories":["Articles with short description","Short description is different from Wikidata","Use American English from December 2019","All Wikipedia articles written in American English","Use mdy dates from December 2019","Commons category link from Wikidata","1889 births","1950 deaths","American football ends","American football quarterbacks","Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets athletic directors","Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football coaches", "Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football players","Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball coaches","College Football Hall of Fame inductees","Basketball coaches from Kentucky","Coaches of American football from Kentucky","Players of American football from Kentucky","Presidents of the American Football Coaches Association"],"wgPageViewLanguage":"en","wgPageContentLanguage":"en","wgPageContentModel":"wikitext","wgRelevantPageName":"William_Alexander_(American_football)","wgRelevantArticleId":2675629,"wgIsProbablyEditable":true,"wgRelevantPageIsProbablyEditable":true,"wgRestrictionEdit":[],"wgRestrictionMove":[],"wgNoticeProject":"wikipedia","wgCiteReferencePreviewsActive":false,"wgFlaggedRevsParams":{"tags":{"status":{"levels":1}}},"wgMediaViewerOnClick":true,"wgMediaViewerEnabledByDefault":true,"wgPopupsFlags":0,"wgVisualEditor":{"pageLanguageCode":"en","pageLanguageDir":"ltr","pageVariantFallbacks":"en"},"wgMFDisplayWikibaseDescriptions":{"search":true,"watchlist":true,"tagline": false,"nearby":true},"wgWMESchemaEditAttemptStepOversample":false,"wgWMEPageLength":30000,"wgRelatedArticlesCompat":[],"wgCentralAuthMobileDomain":false,"wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish":true,"wgULSPosition":"interlanguage","wgULSisCompactLinksEnabled":false,"wgVector2022LanguageInHeader":true,"wgULSisLanguageSelectorEmpty":false,"wgWikibaseItemId":"Q12860138","wgCheckUserClientHintsHeadersJsApi":["brands","architecture","bitness","fullVersionList","mobile","model","platform","platformVersion"],"GEHomepageSuggestedEditsEnableTopics":true,"wgGETopicsMatchModeEnabled":false,"wgGEStructuredTaskRejectionReasonTextInputEnabled":false,"wgGELevelingUpEnabledForUser":false};RLSTATE={"ext.globalCssJs.user.styles":"ready","site.styles":"ready","user.styles":"ready","ext.globalCssJs.user":"ready","user":"ready","user.options":"loading","ext.cite.styles":"ready","skins.vector.search.codex.styles":"ready","skins.vector.styles":"ready","skins.vector.icons":"ready","jquery.makeCollapsible.styles": "ready","ext.wikimediamessages.styles":"ready","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript":"ready","ext.uls.interlanguage":"ready","wikibase.client.init":"ready","ext.wikimediaBadges":"ready"};RLPAGEMODULES=["ext.cite.ux-enhancements","mediawiki.page.media","site","mediawiki.page.ready","jquery.makeCollapsible","mediawiki.toc","skins.vector.js","ext.centralNotice.geoIP","ext.centralNotice.startUp","ext.gadget.ReferenceTooltips","ext.gadget.switcher","ext.urlShortener.toolbar","ext.centralauth.centralautologin","mmv.bootstrap","ext.popups","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init","ext.visualEditor.targetLoader","ext.echo.centralauth","ext.eventLogging","ext.wikimediaEvents","ext.navigationTiming","ext.uls.interface","ext.cx.eventlogging.campaigns","ext.cx.uls.quick.actions","wikibase.client.vector-2022","ext.checkUser.clientHints","ext.growthExperiments.SuggestedEditSession","wikibase.sidebar.tracking"];</script> <script>(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.loader.impl(function(){return["user.options@12s5i",function($,jQuery,require,module){mw.user.tokens.set({"patrolToken":"+\\","watchToken":"+\\","csrfToken":"+\\"}); }];});});</script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.cite.styles%7Cext.uls.interlanguage%7Cext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript%7Cext.wikimediaBadges%7Cext.wikimediamessages.styles%7Cjquery.makeCollapsible.styles%7Cskins.vector.icons%2Cstyles%7Cskins.vector.search.codex.styles%7Cwikibase.client.init&only=styles&skin=vector-2022"> <script async="" src="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector-2022"></script> <meta name="ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles" content=""> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=site.styles&only=styles&skin=vector-2022"> <meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.44.0-wmf.4"> <meta name="referrer" content="origin"> <meta name="referrer" content="origin-when-cross-origin"> <meta name="robots" content="max-image-preview:standard"> <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no"> <meta property="og:image" content="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/William_A._Alexander.png"> <meta property="og:image:width" content="1200"> <meta property="og:image:height" content="1595"> <meta property="og:image" content="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/William_A._Alexander.png"> <meta property="og:image:width" content="800"> <meta property="og:image:height" content="1063"> <meta property="og:image:width" content="640"> <meta property="og:image:height" content="851"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=1120"> <meta property="og:title" content="William Alexander (American football) - Wikipedia"> <meta property="og:type" content="website"> <link rel="preconnect" href="//upload.wikimedia.org"> <link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="//en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Alexander_(American_football)"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-wiki" title="Edit this page" href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=edit"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/static/apple-touch/wikipedia.png"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/favicon/wikipedia.ico"> <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="/w/rest.php/v1/search" title="Wikipedia (en)"> <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" href="//en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=rsd"> <link rel="canonical" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Alexander_(American_football)"> <link rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Wikipedia Atom feed" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom"> <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//meta.wikimedia.org" /> <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//login.wikimedia.org"> </head> <body class="skin--responsive skin-vector skin-vector-search-vue mediawiki ltr sitedir-ltr mw-hide-empty-elt ns-0 ns-subject mw-editable page-William_Alexander_American_football rootpage-William_Alexander_American_football skin-vector-2022 action-view"><a class="mw-jump-link" href="#bodyContent">Jump to content</a> <div class="vector-header-container"> <header class="vector-header mw-header"> <div class="vector-header-start"> <nav class="vector-main-menu-landmark" aria-label="Site"> <div id="vector-main-menu-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown vector-main-menu-dropdown vector-button-flush-left vector-button-flush-right" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-main-menu-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-main-menu-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Main menu" > <label id="vector-main-menu-dropdown-label" for="vector-main-menu-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-menu mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-menu"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Main menu</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-main-menu-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> <div id="vector-main-menu" class="vector-main-menu vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-main-menu-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-unpinned" data-feature-name="main-menu-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-main-menu" data-pinned-container-id="vector-main-menu-pinned-container" data-unpinned-container-id="vector-main-menu-unpinned-container" > <div class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Main menu</div> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-main-menu.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-main-menu.unpin">hide</button> </div> <div id="p-navigation" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-navigation" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Navigation </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="n-mainpage-description" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Visit the main page [z]" accesskey="z"><span>Main page</span></a></li><li id="n-contents" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents" title="Guides to browsing Wikipedia"><span>Contents</span></a></li><li id="n-currentevents" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Current_events" title="Articles related to current events"><span>Current events</span></a></li><li id="n-randompage" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:Random" title="Visit a randomly selected article [x]" accesskey="x"><span>Random article</span></a></li><li id="n-aboutsite" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:About" title="Learn about Wikipedia and how it works"><span>About Wikipedia</span></a></li><li id="n-contactpage" class="mw-list-item"><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us" title="How to contact Wikipedia"><span>Contact us</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-interaction" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-interaction" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Contribute </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="n-help" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Help:Contents" title="Guidance on how to use and edit Wikipedia"><span>Help</span></a></li><li id="n-introduction" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction" title="Learn how to edit Wikipedia"><span>Learn to edit</span></a></li><li id="n-portal" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_portal" title="The hub for editors"><span>Community portal</span></a></li><li id="n-recentchanges" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="A list of recent changes to Wikipedia [r]" accesskey="r"><span>Recent changes</span></a></li><li id="n-upload" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:File_upload_wizard" title="Add images or other media for use on Wikipedia"><span>Upload file</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <a href="/wiki/Main_Page" class="mw-logo"> <img class="mw-logo-icon" src="/static/images/icons/wikipedia.png" alt="" aria-hidden="true" height="50" width="50"> <span class="mw-logo-container skin-invert"> <img class="mw-logo-wordmark" alt="Wikipedia" src="/static/images/mobile/copyright/wikipedia-wordmark-en.svg" style="width: 7.5em; height: 1.125em;"> <img class="mw-logo-tagline" alt="The Free Encyclopedia" src="/static/images/mobile/copyright/wikipedia-tagline-en.svg" width="117" height="13" style="width: 7.3125em; height: 0.8125em;"> </span> </a> </div> <div class="vector-header-end"> <div id="p-search" role="search" class="vector-search-box-vue vector-search-box-collapses vector-search-box-show-thumbnail vector-search-box-auto-expand-width vector-search-box"> <a href="/wiki/Special:Search" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only search-toggle" title="Search Wikipedia [f]" accesskey="f"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-search mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-search"></span> <span>Search</span> </a> <div class="vector-typeahead-search-container"> <div class="cdx-typeahead-search cdx-typeahead-search--show-thumbnail cdx-typeahead-search--auto-expand-width"> <form action="/w/index.php" id="searchform" class="cdx-search-input cdx-search-input--has-end-button"> <div id="simpleSearch" class="cdx-search-input__input-wrapper" data-search-loc="header-moved"> <div class="cdx-text-input cdx-text-input--has-start-icon"> <input class="cdx-text-input__input" type="search" name="search" placeholder="Search Wikipedia" aria-label="Search Wikipedia" autocapitalize="sentences" title="Search Wikipedia [f]" accesskey="f" id="searchInput" > <span class="cdx-text-input__icon cdx-text-input__start-icon"></span> </div> <input type="hidden" name="title" value="Special:Search"> </div> <button class="cdx-button cdx-search-input__end-button">Search</button> </form> </div> </div> </div> <nav class="vector-user-links vector-user-links-wide" aria-label="Personal tools"> <div class="vector-user-links-main"> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-preferences" class="vector-menu mw-portlet emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-userpage" class="vector-menu mw-portlet emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> <nav class="vector-appearance-landmark" aria-label="Appearance"> <div id="vector-appearance-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown " title="Change the appearance of the page's font size, width, and color" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-appearance-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-appearance-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Appearance" > <label id="vector-appearance-dropdown-label" for="vector-appearance-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-appearance mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-appearance"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Appearance</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-appearance-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-notifications" class="vector-menu mw-portlet emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-overflow" class="vector-menu mw-portlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-sitesupport-2" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item user-links-collapsible-item"><a data-mw="interface" href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector?utm_source=donate&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=C13_en.wikipedia.org&uselang=en" class=""><span>Donate</span></a> </li> <li id="pt-createaccount-2" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item user-links-collapsible-item"><a data-mw="interface" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=William+Alexander+%28American+football%29" title="You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory" class=""><span>Create account</span></a> </li> <li id="pt-login-2" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item user-links-collapsible-item"><a data-mw="interface" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=William+Alexander+%28American+football%29" title="You're encouraged to log in; however, it's not mandatory. [o]" accesskey="o" class=""><span>Log in</span></a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div id="vector-user-links-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown vector-user-menu vector-button-flush-right vector-user-menu-logged-out" title="Log in and more options" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-user-links-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-user-links-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Personal tools" > <label id="vector-user-links-dropdown-label" for="vector-user-links-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-ellipsis mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-ellipsis"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Personal tools</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="p-personal" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-personal user-links-collapsible-item" title="User menu" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-sitesupport" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector?utm_source=donate&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=C13_en.wikipedia.org&uselang=en"><span>Donate</span></a></li><li id="pt-createaccount" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=William+Alexander+%28American+football%29" title="You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-userAdd mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-userAdd"></span> <span>Create account</span></a></li><li id="pt-login" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=William+Alexander+%28American+football%29" title="You're encouraged to log in; however, it's not mandatory. [o]" accesskey="o"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-logIn mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-logIn"></span> <span>Log in</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-user-menu-anon-editor" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-user-menu-anon-editor" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Pages for logged out editors <a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction" aria-label="Learn more about editing"><span>learn more</span></a> </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-anoncontribs" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyContributions" title="A list of edits made from this IP address [y]" accesskey="y"><span>Contributions</span></a></li><li id="pt-anontalk" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyTalk" title="Discussion about edits from this IP address [n]" accesskey="n"><span>Talk</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </header> </div> <div class="mw-page-container"> <div class="mw-page-container-inner"> <div class="vector-sitenotice-container"> <div id="siteNotice"><!-- CentralNotice --></div> </div> <div class="vector-column-start"> <div class="vector-main-menu-container"> <div id="mw-navigation"> <nav id="mw-panel" class="vector-main-menu-landmark" aria-label="Site"> <div id="vector-main-menu-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="vector-sticky-pinned-container"> <nav id="mw-panel-toc" aria-label="Contents" data-event-name="ui.sidebar-toc" class="mw-table-of-contents-container vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-toc-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> <div id="vector-toc" class="vector-toc vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-toc-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-pinned" data-feature-name="toc-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-toc" > <h2 class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Contents</h2> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-toc.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-toc.unpin">hide</button> </div> <ul class="vector-toc-contents" id="mw-panel-toc-list"> <li id="toc-mw-content-text" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a href="#" class="vector-toc-link"> <div class="vector-toc-text">(Top)</div> </a> </li> <li id="toc-Player" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Player"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1</span> <span>Player</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Player-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Coach" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Coach"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Coach</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Coach-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Coach subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Coach-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Taking_over_for_Heisman" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Taking_over_for_Heisman"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>Taking over for Heisman</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Taking_over_for_Heisman-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Doug_Wycoff" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Doug_Wycoff"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>Doug Wycoff</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Doug_Wycoff-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-The_Plan" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_Plan"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>The Plan</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_Plan-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1928" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1928"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>1928</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1928-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Depression" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Depression"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span> <span>Depression</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Depression-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-All-Alexander_Era_team" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#All-Alexander_Era_team"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.6</span> <span>All-Alexander Era team</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-All-Alexander_Era_team-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-AD" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#AD"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.7</span> <span>AD</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-AD-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Legacy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Legacy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Legacy</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Legacy-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Legacy subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Legacy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Coaching_tree" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Coaching_tree"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Coaching tree</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Coaching_tree-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Head_coaching_record" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Head_coaching_record"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Head coaching record</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Head_coaching_record-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Head coaching record subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Head_coaching_record-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Football" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Football"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Football</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Football-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-listBullet mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-listBullet"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Toggle the table of contents</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">William Alexander (American football)</span></h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. Available in 2 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-2" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-language-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language-progressive"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">2 languages</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1" title="ويليام الكسندر – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ويليام الكسندر" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Alexander_(coach)" title="William Alexander (coach) – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="William Alexander (coach)" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li> </ul> <div class="after-portlet after-portlet-lang"><span class="wb-langlinks-edit wb-langlinks-link"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityPage/Q12860138#sitelinks-wikipedia" title="Edit interlanguage links" class="wbc-editpage">Edit links</a></span></div> </div> </div> </div> </header> <div class="vector-page-toolbar"> <div class="vector-page-toolbar-container"> <div id="left-navigation"> <nav aria-label="Namespaces"> <div id="p-associated-pages" class="vector-menu vector-menu-tabs mw-portlet mw-portlet-associated-pages" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-nstab-main" class="selected vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/William_Alexander_(American_football)" title="View the content page [c]" accesskey="c"><span>Article</span></a></li><li id="ca-talk" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Talk:William_Alexander_(American_football)" rel="discussion" title="Discuss improvements to the content page [t]" accesskey="t"><span>Talk</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="vector-variants-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown emptyPortlet" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-variants-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-variants-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Change language variant" > <label id="vector-variants-dropdown-label" for="vector-variants-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">English</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="p-variants" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-variants emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> <div id="right-navigation" class="vector-collapsible"> <nav aria-label="Views"> <div id="p-views" class="vector-menu vector-menu-tabs mw-portlet mw-portlet-views" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-view" class="selected vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/William_Alexander_(American_football)"><span>Read</span></a></li><li id="ca-edit" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=edit" title="Edit this page [e]" accesskey="e"><span>Edit</span></a></li><li id="ca-history" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=history" title="Past revisions of this page [h]" accesskey="h"><span>View history</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> <nav class="vector-page-tools-landmark" aria-label="Page tools"> <div id="vector-page-tools-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-tools-dropdown" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-tools-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-tools-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Tools" > <label id="vector-page-tools-dropdown-label" for="vector-page-tools-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Tools</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-page-tools-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> <div id="vector-page-tools" class="vector-page-tools vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-page-tools-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-unpinned" data-feature-name="page-tools-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-page-tools" data-pinned-container-id="vector-page-tools-pinned-container" data-unpinned-container-id="vector-page-tools-unpinned-container" > <div class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Tools</div> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-page-tools.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-page-tools.unpin">hide</button> </div> <div id="p-cactions" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-cactions emptyPortlet vector-has-collapsible-items" title="More options" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Actions </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-more-view" class="selected vector-more-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/William_Alexander_(American_football)"><span>Read</span></a></li><li id="ca-more-edit" class="vector-more-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=edit" title="Edit this page [e]" accesskey="e"><span>Edit</span></a></li><li id="ca-more-history" class="vector-more-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=history"><span>View history</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-tb" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-tb" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> General </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="t-whatlinkshere" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/William_Alexander_(American_football)" title="List of all English Wikipedia pages containing links to this page [j]" accesskey="j"><span>What links here</span></a></li><li id="t-recentchangeslinked" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/William_Alexander_(American_football)" rel="nofollow" title="Recent changes in pages linked from this page [k]" accesskey="k"><span>Related changes</span></a></li><li id="t-upload" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:File_Upload_Wizard" title="Upload files [u]" accesskey="u"><span>Upload file</span></a></li><li id="t-specialpages" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:SpecialPages" title="A list of all special pages [q]" accesskey="q"><span>Special pages</span></a></li><li id="t-permalink" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&oldid=1256230993" title="Permanent link to this revision of this page"><span>Permanent link</span></a></li><li id="t-info" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=info" title="More information about this page"><span>Page information</span></a></li><li id="t-cite" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CiteThisPage&page=William_Alexander_%28American_football%29&id=1256230993&wpFormIdentifier=titleform" title="Information on how to cite this page"><span>Cite this page</span></a></li><li id="t-urlshortener" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UrlShortener&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWilliam_Alexander_%28American_football%29"><span>Get shortened URL</span></a></li><li id="t-urlshortener-qrcode" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:QrCode&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWilliam_Alexander_%28American_football%29"><span>Download QR code</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-coll-print_export" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-coll-print_export" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Print/export </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="coll-download-as-rl" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:DownloadAsPdf&page=William_Alexander_%28American_football%29&action=show-download-screen" title="Download this page as a PDF file"><span>Download as PDF</span></a></li><li id="t-print" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&printable=yes" title="Printable version of this page [p]" accesskey="p"><span>Printable version</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-wikibase-otherprojects" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-wikibase-otherprojects" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> In other projects </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="wb-otherproject-link wb-otherproject-commons mw-list-item"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:William_Alexander_(American_football)" hreflang="en"><span>Wikimedia Commons</span></a></li><li id="t-wikibase" class="wb-otherproject-link wb-otherproject-wikibase-dataitem mw-list-item"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityPage/Q12860138" title="Structured data on this page hosted by Wikidata [g]" accesskey="g"><span>Wikidata item</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-column-end"> <div class="vector-sticky-pinned-container"> <nav class="vector-page-tools-landmark" aria-label="Page tools"> <div id="vector-page-tools-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> </div> </nav> <nav class="vector-appearance-landmark" aria-label="Appearance"> <div id="vector-appearance-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> <div id="vector-appearance" class="vector-appearance vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-appearance-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-pinned" data-feature-name="appearance-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-appearance" data-pinned-container-id="vector-appearance-pinned-container" data-unpinned-container-id="vector-appearance-unpinned-container" > <div class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Appearance</div> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-appearance.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-appearance.unpin">hide</button> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American football player and coach (1889–1950)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other people named William Alexander, see <a href="/wiki/William_Alexander_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="William Alexander (disambiguation)">William Alexander (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn">William Alexander</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:William_A._Alexander.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/William_A._Alexander.png/220px-William_A._Alexander.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="292" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/William_A._Alexander.png/330px-William_A._Alexander.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/William_A._Alexander.png/440px-William_A._Alexander.png 2x" data-file-width="468" data-file-height="622" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Alexander from <i>The 1944 Blue Print</i></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: lightgray; padding-left:0.3em; padding-right:0.3em;">Biographical details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1889-06-06</span>)</span>June 6, 1889<br /><a href="/wiki/Mud_River_(Kentucky)" title="Mud River (Kentucky)">Mud River, Kentucky</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">April 23, 1950<span style="display:none">(1950-04-23)</span> (aged 60)<br /><a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta, Georgia</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: lightgray; padding-left:0.3em; padding-right:0.3em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546">Playing career</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0 1px;">1911–1912</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding: 0 1px;"><a href="/wiki/Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football" title="Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football">Georgia Tech</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Position(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/End_(gridiron_football)" title="End (gridiron football)">End</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Quarterback" title="Quarterback">quarterback</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: lightgray; padding-left:0.3em; padding-right:0.3em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546">Coaching career (<a href="/wiki/Head_coach" title="Head coach">HC</a> unless noted)</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align: left;">Football</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0 1px;">1920–1944</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding: 0 1px;"><a href="/wiki/Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football" title="Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football">Georgia Tech</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align: left;">Basketball</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0 1px;">1919–1920</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding: 0 1px;"><a href="/wiki/Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_men%27s_basketball" title="Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball">Georgia Tech</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0 1px;">1921–1924</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding: 0 1px;"><a href="/wiki/Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_men%27s_basketball" title="Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball">Georgia Tech</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: lightgray; padding-left:0.3em; padding-right:0.3em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><span class="nowrap">Administrative career (<a href="/wiki/Athletic_director" title="Athletic director">AD</a> unless noted)</span></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0 1px;">1920–1950</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding: 0 1px;"><a href="/wiki/Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets" title="Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets">Georgia Tech</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: lightgray; padding-left:0.3em; padding-right:0.3em;">Head coaching record</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Overall</th><td class="infobox-data">134–95–15 (football)<br />36–38 (basketball)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Bowls</th><td class="infobox-data">3–2</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: lightgray; padding-left:0.3em; padding-right:0.3em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546">Accomplishments and honors</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align: left;">Championships</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left;">Football<br />1 <a href="/wiki/College_football_national_championships_in_NCAA_Division_I_FBS" title="College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS">National</a> (1928)<br />2 <a href="/wiki/Southern_Intercollegiate_Athletic_Association" title="Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association">SIAA</a> (1920–1921)<br />3 <a href="/wiki/Southern_Conference" title="Southern Conference">SoCon</a> (1922, 1927–1928)<br />3 <a href="/wiki/Southeastern_Conference" title="Southeastern Conference">SEC</a> (1939, 1943–1944)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align: left;">Awards</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left;">Football<br /><a href="/wiki/AFCA_Coach_of_the_Year" class="mw-redirect" title="AFCA Coach of the Year">AFCA Coach of the Year</a> (1942)<br /><a href="/wiki/Amos_Alonzo_Stagg_Award" title="Amos Alonzo Stagg Award">Amos Alonzo Stagg Award</a> (1947)<br /><a href="/wiki/Southeastern_Conference_football_individual_awards#Coach_of_the_Year" title="Southeastern Conference football individual awards">SEC Coach of the Year</a> (1939)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="background-color: #fb0; font-weight: bold;"><a href="/wiki/College_Football_Hall_of_Fame" title="College Football Hall of Fame">College Football Hall of Fame</a><br />Inducted in 1951 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://footballfoundation.org/hof_search.aspx?hof=1486">profile</a>)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William Anderson Alexander</b> (June 6, 1889 – April 23, 1950) was an <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">American football</a> player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Institute_of_Technology" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgia Institute of Technology">Georgia Institute of Technology</a> from 1920 to 1944, compiling a record of 134–95–15. Alexander has the second most victories of any Tech football coach. Alexander's 1928 <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football" title="Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football">Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets</a> have been recognized as <a href="/wiki/College_football_national_championships_in_NCAA_Division_I_FBS" title="College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS">national champions</a> by a number of selectors. Alexander was the first college football coach to place his teams in the four major post-season bowl games of the time: <a href="/wiki/Sugar_Bowl" title="Sugar Bowl">Sugar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cotton_Bowl_Classic" title="Cotton Bowl Classic">Cotton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Orange_Bowl" title="Orange Bowl">Orange</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rose_Bowl_Game" title="Rose Bowl Game">Rose</a>. His teams won three of the four bowls. The <a href="/wiki/1929_Rose_Bowl" title="1929 Rose Bowl">1929 Rose Bowl</a> win, which earned his team the national championship, is the most celebrated because of the wrong-way run by <a href="/wiki/California_Golden_Bears_football" title="California Golden Bears football">California's</a> <a href="/wiki/Roy_Riegels" title="Roy Riegels">Roy Riegels</a>. Alexander was also the head <a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">basketball</a> coach at Georgia Tech for four seasons from 1919 to 1924. He was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/College_Football_Hall_of_Fame" title="College Football Hall of Fame">College Football Hall of Fame</a> as a coach in 1951. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Player">Player</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Player"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alexander played football under <a href="/wiki/John_Heisman" title="John Heisman">John Heisman</a> and was appointed captain of the "scrubs." In his senior year he played in the Georgia and Clemson games long enough to win a letter.<sup id="cite_ref-hundred_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hundred-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bio_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bio-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alexander graduated from Georgia Tech in 1912 with a degree in <a href="/wiki/Civil_engineering" title="Civil engineering">civil engineering</a>. <a href="/wiki/Valedictorian" title="Valedictorian">Valedictorian</a> of his class, he was also a brother of the <a href="/wiki/Kappa_Sigma" title="Kappa Sigma">Kappa Sigma</a> fraternity.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ens_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ens-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Coach">Coach</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Coach"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Taking_over_for_Heisman">Taking over for Heisman</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Taking over for Heisman"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>"Old Aleck," as Alexander was called, succeeded John Heisman as the head coach at Georgia Tech in April 1920.<sup id="cite_ref-ens_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ens-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alexander had been an assistant coach for Heisman and a math teacher in the classroom at Georgia Tech.<sup id="cite_ref-hundred_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hundred-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i><a href="/wiki/The_Technique" class="mw-redirect" title="The Technique">Technique</a></i> said of him: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Since Coach Alex has taken charge there is a change in the team. The youngest coach in major football, he is probably the most popular, and bids fair to prove himself the peer of them all. Not only is Coach the idol of members of the team, but of the student body as well.<sup id="cite_ref-ens_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ens-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Alexander also had a sense of humor. Whenever he diagrammed a football play, he always drew very small "x's" to represent Georgia Tech players and very large circles to represent the opposing players.<sup id="cite_ref-bio_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bio-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a new coach, he led Georgia Tech to three <a href="/wiki/Southern_Intercollegiate_Athletic_Association" title="Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association">Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association</a> titles (<a href="/wiki/1920_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" class="mw-redirect" title="1920 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">1920</a>, <a href="/wiki/1921_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" class="mw-redirect" title="1921 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">1921</a>, <a href="/wiki/1922_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" class="mw-redirect" title="1922 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">1922</a>) and its second national championship in <a href="/wiki/1928_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" class="mw-redirect" title="1928 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">1928</a>. <a href="/wiki/Buck_Flowers" title="Buck Flowers">Buck Flowers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Red_Barron" title="Red Barron">Red Barron</a> starred on his first teams. Alexander was the first college football coach to place his teams in the four major post-season bowl games of the time: <a href="/wiki/Sugar_Bowl" title="Sugar Bowl">Sugar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cotton_Bowl_Classic" title="Cotton Bowl Classic">Cotton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Orange_Bowl" title="Orange Bowl">Orange</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rose_Bowl_Game" title="Rose Bowl Game">Rose</a>. His teams won three of the four bowls.<sup id="cite_ref-hundred_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hundred-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Doug_Wycoff">Doug Wycoff</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Doug Wycoff"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dougwycoff.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Dougwycoff.jpg" decoding="async" width="208" height="315" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="208" data-file-height="315" /></a><figcaption>Doug Wycoff</figcaption></figure> <p>Describing the most spectacular play he ever saw, he cites one from the <a href="/wiki/1925_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" class="mw-redirect" title="1925 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">1925 game</a> against Vanderbilt. Star back <a href="/wiki/Doug_Wycoff" title="Doug Wycoff">Doug Wycoff</a> was hurt, such that he had to use his substitute Dick Wright. On a muddy field, Wright ran off tackle and dodged Vanderbilt's safety <a href="/wiki/Gil_Reese" title="Gil Reese">Gil Reese</a>, "usually a sure tackler," to get the touchdown to give Tech a 7 to 0 victory.<sup id="cite_ref-yardsfor_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yardsfor-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Coach Alexander further recalled "The work of Douglas Wycoff against <a href="/wiki/Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish_football" title="Notre Dame Fighting Irish football">Notre Dame</a> two years in succession was brilliant in the extreme, as was his plunging against Penn. State when we defeated them twice."<sup id="cite_ref-yardsfor_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yardsfor-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Plan">The Plan</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The Plan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/1927_college_football_season" title="1927 college football season">1927 season</a>, Alexander instituted "the Plan." Tech and UGA had just renewed their annual rivalry game in 1925 after an eight-year <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hiatus" class="extiw" title="wikt:hiatus">hiatus</a>. Georgia was highly rated to start the season and justified their rating throughout the season going 9–0 in their first 9 games. Alexander's plan was to minimize injuries by benching his starters early no matter the score of every game before the UGA finale. On December 3, 1927, UGA rolled into Atlanta on the cusp of a National Title. Tech's well rested starters shut out the Bulldogs 12–0 and ended any chance of UGA's first National Title.<sup id="cite_ref-dhwg_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dhwg-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:William_A._%22Alex%22_Alexander.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/William_A._%22Alex%22_Alexander.jpg/220px-William_A._%22Alex%22_Alexander.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/William_A._%22Alex%22_Alexander.jpg/330px-William_A._%22Alex%22_Alexander.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/William_A._%22Alex%22_Alexander.jpg/440px-William_A._%22Alex%22_Alexander.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2268" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>Plaque at Georgia Tech honoring Alexander</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1928">1928</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1928"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alexander's 1928 team would be the very first Tech team to attend a bowl game. The team had amassed a perfect 9–0 record and was invited to the <a href="/wiki/1929_Rose_Bowl" title="1929 Rose Bowl">1929 Rose Bowl</a> to play <a href="/wiki/California_Golden_Bears_football" title="California Golden Bears football">California</a>. Tech traveled by train to meet the awaiting Golden Bears. The game was a defensive struggle with the first points being scored after a Georgia Tech fumble. The loose ball was scooped up by California Center <a href="/wiki/Roy_Riegels" title="Roy Riegels">Roy Riegels</a> and then accidentally returned in the wrong direction. Riegels returned the ball all the way to Georgia Tech's 3 yard line. After Riegels was finally stopped by his own team, the Bears opted to punt from the end zone. The punt was blocked and converted by Tech into a safety giving Tech a 2–0 lead. Cal would score a touchdown and point after but Tech would score another touchdown to finally win the game 8–7. This victory made Tech the 10–0 undefeated national champions of the <a href="/wiki/1928_college_football_season" title="1928 college football season">1928 college football season</a>. It was Tech's second national title in 11 years.<sup id="cite_ref-dhwg_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dhwg-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Depression">Depression</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Depression"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Coach Alexander found campus spirit to be particularly low during the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a>. His football program and the other athletic teams had very few student fans attending the games. His football team faded in success after 1928, not posting another winning record until 1937. He helped to establish a spirit organization known as the Yellow Jacket Club in <a href="/wiki/1930_college_football_season" title="1930 college football season">1930</a> to bolster student spirit.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The group would later become the <a href="/wiki/Ramblin%27_Reck_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Ramblin' Reck Club">Ramblin' Reck Club</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="All-Alexander_Era_team">All-Alexander Era team</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: All-Alexander Era team"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>QB <a href="/wiki/Buck_Flowers" title="Buck Flowers">Buck Flowers</a></li> <li>HB <a href="/wiki/Stumpy_Thomason" title="Stumpy Thomason">Stumpy Thomason</a></li> <li>HB <a href="/wiki/Red_Barron" title="Red Barron">Red Barron</a></li> <li>FB <a href="/wiki/Doug_Wycoff" title="Doug Wycoff">Doug Wycoff</a></li> <li>E <a href="/wiki/Bill_Jordan_(American_football)" title="Bill Jordan (American football)">Bill Jordan</a></li> <li>T <a href="/wiki/Frank_Speer" title="Frank Speer">Frank Speer</a></li> <li>G <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Davis_(American_football)" title="Oscar Davis (American football)">Oscar Davis</a></li> <li>C <a href="/wiki/Peter_Pund" title="Peter Pund">Peter Pund</a></li> <li>G <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Hardy" title="Harvey Hardy">Harvey Hardy</a></li> <li>T <a href="/wiki/Vance_Maree" title="Vance Maree">Vance Maree</a></li> <li>E <a href="/wiki/Bob_Ison" title="Bob Ison">Bob Ison</a><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="AD">AD</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: AD"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On January 30, 1945,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Coach Alexander retired as head football coach but remained Georgia Tech's athletic director until his death in 1950.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alexander has the second most victories of any Tech football coach.<sup id="cite_ref-wins_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wins-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alexander was succeeded as head coach by one of his assistants, <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Dodd" title="Bobby Dodd">Bobby Dodd</a>, who became the most successful head football coach in Georgia Tech history. Dodd lionized Coach Alexander, which was later reflected in his coaching style. "He taught me to treat athletes as men, not boys - to never use their failings as an alibi for a loss," Dodd said.<sup id="cite_ref-hundred_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hundred-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wins_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wins-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Alexander_Courtyard.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/William_Alexander_Courtyard.jpg/350px-William_Alexander_Courtyard.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="197" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/William_Alexander_Courtyard.jpg/525px-William_Alexander_Courtyard.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/William_Alexander_Courtyard.jpg/700px-William_Alexander_Courtyard.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="2268" /></a><figcaption>William Alexander Courtyard at <a href="/wiki/McCamish_Pavilion" title="McCamish Pavilion">McCamish Pavilion</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Memorial_Coliseum" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Memorial Coliseum">Alexander Memorial Coliseum</a> (recently renamed <a href="/wiki/Hank_McCamish_Pavilion" class="mw-redirect" title="Hank McCamish Pavilion">Hank McCamish Pavilion</a>), the home arena of Georgia Tech's basketball teams, was named after him.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Coaching_tree">Coaching tree</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Coaching tree"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/T._B._Amis" title="T. B. Amis">Dad Amis</a>: played for Georgia Tech (1920–1923), head coach for <a href="/wiki/Furman_Paladins_football" title="Furman Paladins football">Furman</a> (1928–1931).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Dodd" title="Bobby Dodd">Bobby Dodd</a>: assistant for Georgia Tech (1931–1944), head coach for Georgia Tech (1945–1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Fincher" title="Bill Fincher">Bill Fincher</a>: played for Georgia Tech (1916–1920), head coach for <a href="/wiki/William_%26_Mary_Tribe_football" title="William & Mary Tribe football">William & Mary</a> (1921), assistant for Georgia Tech (1927–1928).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Miller_(American_football,_born_1902)" title="Don Miller (American football, born 1902)">Don Miller</a>: assistant for Georgia Tech (1925–1928).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mack_Tharpe" title="Mack Tharpe">Mack Tharpe</a>: played for Georgia Tech (1926), assistant for Georgia Tech (1928–1941).</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Head_coaching_record">Head coaching record</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Head coaching record"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Football">Football</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Football"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Team </th> <th>Overall </th> <th>Conference</th> <th>Standing </th> <th>Bowl/playoffs </th> <th>AP<sup>#</sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#dddddd; border-bottom: 2px solid #aaaaaa;text-align:center;" colspan="9"><b><a href="/wiki/Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football" title="Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football">Georgia Tech Golden Tornado</a></b> <i>(<a href="/wiki/Southern_Intercollegiate_Athletic_Association" title="Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association">Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association</a>)</i> <small>(1920–1921)</small> </td></tr> <tr style="background:#ff9"> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1920_college_football_season" title="1920 college football season">1920</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1920_Georgia_Tech_Golden_Tornado_football_team" title="1920 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>8–1</td> <td>5–0</td> <td>T–1st</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr style="background:#ff9"> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1921_college_football_season" title="1921 college football season">1921</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1921_Georgia_Tech_Golden_Tornado_football_team" title="1921 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>8–1</td> <td>5–0</td> <td>T–1st</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#dddddd; border-bottom: 2px solid #aaaaaa;text-align:center;" colspan="9"><b><a href="/wiki/Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football" title="Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football">Georgia Tech Golden Tornado / Yellow Jackets</a></b> <i>(<a href="/wiki/Southern_Conference" title="Southern Conference">Southern Conference</a>)</i> <small>(1922–1932)</small> </td></tr> <tr style="background:#ff9"> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1922_college_football_season" title="1922 college football season">1922</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1922_Georgia_Tech_Golden_Tornado_football_team" title="1922 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>7–2</td> <td>4–0</td> <td>T–1st</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1923_college_football_season" title="1923 college football season">1923</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1923_Georgia_Tech_Golden_Tornado_football_team" title="1923 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>3–2–4</td> <td>0–0–4</td> <td>T–11th</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1924_college_football_season" title="1924 college football season">1924</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1924_Georgia_Tech_Golden_Tornado_football_team" title="1924 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>5–3–1</td> <td>3–2–1</td> <td>10th</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1925_college_football_season" title="1925 college football season">1925</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1925_Georgia_Tech_Golden_Tornado_football_team" title="1925 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>6–2–1</td> <td>4–1–1</td> <td>T–5th</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1926_college_football_season" title="1926 college football season">1926</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1926_Georgia_Tech_Golden_Tornado_football_team" title="1926 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>4–5</td> <td>4–3</td> <td>9th</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr style="background:#ff9"> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1927_college_football_season" title="1927 college football season">1927</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1927_Georgia_Tech_Golden_Tornado_football_team" title="1927 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>8–1–1</td> <td>7–0–1</td> <td>T–1st</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr style="background:#fc6"> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1928_college_football_season" title="1928 college football season">1928</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1928_Georgia_Tech_Golden_Tornado_football_team" title="1928 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>10–0</td> <td>7–0</td> <td>1st</td> <td><b>W</b> <a href="/wiki/1929_Rose_Bowl" title="1929 Rose Bowl">Rose</a></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1929_college_football_season" title="1929 college football season">1929</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1929_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" title="1929 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>3–6</td> <td>3–5</td> <td>14th</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1930_college_football_season" title="1930 college football season">1930</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1930_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" title="1930 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>2–6–1</td> <td>2–4–1</td> <td>15th</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1931_college_football_season" title="1931 college football season">1931</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1931_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" title="1931 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>2–7–1</td> <td>2–4–1</td> <td>16th</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1932_college_football_season" title="1932 college football season">1932</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1932_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" title="1932 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>4–5–1</td> <td>4–4–1</td> <td>T–10th</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#dddddd; border-bottom: 2px solid #aaaaaa;text-align:center;" colspan="9"><b><a href="/wiki/Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football" title="Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football">Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets</a></b> <i>(<a href="/wiki/Southeastern_Conference" title="Southeastern Conference">Southeastern Conference</a>)</i> <small>(1933–1944)</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1933_college_football_season" title="1933 college football season">1933</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1933_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" title="1933 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>5–5</td> <td>2–5</td> <td>10th</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1934_college_football_season" title="1934 college football season">1934</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1934_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" title="1934 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>1–9</td> <td>0–6</td> <td>12th</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1935_college_football_season" title="1935 college football season">1935</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1935_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" title="1935 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>5–5</td> <td>3–4</td> <td>8th</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1936_college_football_season" title="1936 college football season">1936</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1936_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" title="1936 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>5–5–1</td> <td>3–3–1</td> <td>T–6th</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1937_college_football_season" title="1937 college football season">1937</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1937_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" title="1937 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>6–3–1</td> <td>3–2–1</td> <td>6th</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1938_college_football_season" title="1938 college football season">1938</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1938_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" title="1938 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>3–4–3</td> <td>2–1–3</td> <td>5th</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr style="background:#ff9"> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1939_college_football_season" title="1939 college football season">1939</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1939_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" title="1939 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>8–2</td> <td>6–0</td> <td>T–1st</td> <td><b>W</b> <a href="/wiki/1940_Orange_Bowl" title="1940 Orange Bowl">Orange</a></td> <td style="text-align:right">16 </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1940_college_football_season" title="1940 college football season">1940</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1940_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" title="1940 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>3–7</td> <td>1–5</td> <td>11th</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1941_college_football_season" title="1941 college football season">1941</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1941_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" title="1941 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>3–6</td> <td>2–4</td> <td>9th</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1942_college_football_season" title="1942 college football season">1942</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1942_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" title="1942 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>9–2</td> <td>4–1</td> <td>T–2nd</td> <td><b>L</b> <a href="/wiki/1943_Cotton_Bowl_Classic" title="1943 Cotton Bowl Classic">Cotton</a></td> <td style="text-align:right">5 </td></tr> <tr style="background:#ff9"> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1943_college_football_season" title="1943 college football season">1943</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1943_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" title="1943 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>8–3</td> <td>3–0</td> <td>1st</td> <td><b>W</b> <a href="/wiki/1944_Sugar_Bowl" title="1944 Sugar Bowl">Sugar</a></td> <td style="text-align:right">13 </td></tr> <tr style="background:#ff9"> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1944_college_football_season" title="1944 college football season">1944</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1944_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team" title="1944 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team">Georgia Tech</a> </td> <td>8–3</td> <td>4–0</td> <td>1st</td> <td><b>L</b> <a href="/wiki/1945_Orange_Bowl" title="1945 Orange Bowl">Orange</a></td> <td style="text-align:right">13 </td></tr> <tr style="background:#fafafa; border-top: 2px solid #aaaaaa;"> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" scope="row"><b>Georgia Tech:</b> </td> <td>134–95–15</td> <td>83–54–15</td> <td colspan="5"> </td></tr> <tr style="background:#dddddd"> <td colspan="2" scope="row" style="text-align:center"><b>Total:</b></td> <td>134–95–15</td> <td colspan="7"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="9"><small><span style="background-color:#ffcc66; width:50px; border:1px solid #000000">     </span> National championship   <span style="background-color:#ffff99; width:50px; border:1px solid #000000">     </span> Conference title   <span style="background-color:#bbffff; width:50px; border:1px solid #000000">     </span> Conference division title or championship game berth</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="9" style="font-size:85%"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><sup>#</sup>Rankings from final <a href="/wiki/AP_Poll" class="mw-redirect" title="AP Poll">AP Poll</a>.</li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation journal cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv14/CFHSNv14n1f.pdf">"Early Georgia Tech Football"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>College Football Historical Society</i>. <b>14</b> (1). November 2000.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=College+Football+Historical+Society&rft.atitle=Early+Georgia+Tech+Football&rft.volume=14&rft.issue=1&rft.date=2000-11&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Flibrary.la84.org%2FSportsLibrary%2FCFHSN%2FCFHSNv14%2FCFHSNv14n1f.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Alexander+%28American+football%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160811174303/http://history.library.gatech.edu/items/show/12255">"Georgia Tech Football Team of 1911"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://history.library.gatech.edu/items/show/12255">the original</a> on August 11, 2016.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Georgia+Tech+Football+Team+of+1911&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fhistory.library.gatech.edu%2Fitems%2Fshow%2F12255&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Alexander+%28American+football%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-hundred-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-hundred_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hundred_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hundred_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hundred_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gtalumni.org/Publications/techtopics/fall92/football.html">"100 Years of Georgia Tech Football"</a>. <i>gtalumni.org</i>. Fall 1992<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 31,</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=gtalumni.org&rft.atitle=100+Years+of+Georgia+Tech+Football&rft.ssn=fall&rft.date=1992&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fgtalumni.org%2FPublications%2Ftechtopics%2Ffall92%2Ffootball.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Alexander+%28American+football%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-bio-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-bio_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bio_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ramblinwreck.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/alexander_william00.html">"William Alexander Bio"</a>. <i>ramblinwreck.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 2,</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=ramblinwreck.com&rft.atitle=William+Alexander+Bio&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ramblinwreck.com%2Fsports%2Fm-footbl%2Fmtt%2Falexander_william00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Alexander+%28American+football%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/14390">Georgia Institute of Technology, "1912 Blue Print"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ens-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ens_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ens_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ens_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcMathRonald_H._BayorJames_E._BritainLawrence_Foster" class="citation book cs1">McMath, Robert C.; Ronald H. Bayor; James E. Britain; Lawrence Foster; August W. Giebelhaus; Germaine M. Reed. <i>Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech 1885-1985</i>. Athens, GA: <a href="/wiki/University_of_Georgia_Press" title="University of Georgia Press">University of Georgia Press</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Engineering+the+New+South%3A+Georgia+Tech+1885-1985&rft.place=Athens%2C+GA&rft.pub=University+of+Georgia+Press&rft.aulast=McMath&rft.aufirst=Robert+C.&rft.au=Ronald+H.+Bayor&rft.au=James+E.+Britain&rft.au=Lawrence+Foster&rft.au=August+W.+Giebelhaus&rft.au=Germaine+M.+Reed&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Alexander+%28American+football%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-yardsfor-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-yardsfor_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-yardsfor_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFW._A._Alexander1926" class="citation journal cs1">W. A. Alexander (1926). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv07/CFHSNv07n4i.pdf">"Forty-Five Yards for Georgia Tech"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Kansas City Star</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Kansas+City+Star&rft.atitle=Forty-Five+Yards+for+Georgia+Tech&rft.date=1926&rft.au=W.+A.+Alexander&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Flibrary.la84.org%2FSportsLibrary%2FCFHSN%2FCFHSNv07%2FCFHSNv07n4i.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Alexander+%28American+football%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-dhwg-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-dhwg_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dhwg_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWallace1969" class="citation book cs1">Wallace, Robert (1969). <i>Dress Her in WHITE and GOLD: A biography of Georgia Tech</i>. <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Tech_Foundation" title="Georgia Tech Foundation">Georgia Tech Foundation</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dress+Her+in+WHITE+and+GOLD%3A+A+biography+of+Georgia+Tech&rft.pub=Georgia+Tech+Foundation&rft.date=1969&rft.aulast=Wallace&rft.aufirst=Robert&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Alexander+%28American+football%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051227105544/http://gtalumni.org/news/magazine/spr98/div04.html">"Wrong Way Reigels"</a>. <i>Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine</i>. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Spring 1998. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gtalumni.org/news/magazine/spr98/div04.html">the original</a> on December 27, 2005<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 15,</span> 2007</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Georgia+Tech+Alumni+Magazine&rft.atitle=Wrong+Way+Reigels&rft.ssn=spring&rft.date=1998&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fgtalumni.org%2Fnews%2Fmagazine%2Fspr98%2Fdiv04.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Alexander+%28American+football%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070210155020/http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/reck/about.php">"What is the Ramblin' Reck Club?"</a>. <i>Ramblin' Reck Club</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/reck/about.php">the original</a> on February 10, 2007<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 9,</span> 2007</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Ramblin%27+Reck+Club&rft.atitle=What+is+the+Ramblin%27+Reck+Club%3F&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyberbuzz.gatech.edu%2Freck%2Fabout.php&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Alexander+%28American+football%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080528110617/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/geot/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/HONORS.pdf">"2007 Georgia Tech Football"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Tech" title="Georgia Tech">Georgia Tech</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/geot/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/HONORS.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on May 28, 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 6,</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=2007+Georgia+Tech+Football&rft.pub=Georgia+Tech&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fgrfx.cstv.com%2Fphotos%2Fschools%2Fgeot%2Fsports%2Fm-footbl%2Fauto_pdf%2FHONORS.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Alexander+%28American+football%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">United Press, “Alexander Resigns At Georgia Tech”, <i>The San Bernardino Daily Sun</i>, San Bernardino, California, Wednesday 31 January 1945, Volume 51, page 11.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/alexanbi.shtml">"William A. Alexander"</a>. <i>HickokSports.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 2,</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=HickokSports.com&rft.atitle=William+A.+Alexander&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hickoksports.com%2Fbiograph%2Falexanbi.shtml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Alexander+%28American+football%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-wins-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-wins_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-wins_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ajc.com/gallery/sports/college/college-football-programs-most-100-win-coaches/g9xN/#3457121">"College football programs with most 100-win coaches"</a>. <i>ajc.com</i>. May 24, 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 1,</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=ajc.com&rft.atitle=College+football+programs+with+most+100-win+coaches&rft.date=2013-05-24&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ajc.com%2Fgallery%2Fsports%2Fcollege%2Fcollege-football-programs-most-100-win-coaches%2Fg9xN%2F%233457121&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Alexander+%28American+football%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sports-venue.info/NCAAB/Alexander_Memorial_Coliseum_1.html">"Alexander Memorial Coliseum"</a>. <i>sports-venue.info</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 2,</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=sports-venue.info&rft.atitle=Alexander+Memorial+Coliseum&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sports-venue.info%2FNCAAB%2FAlexander_Memorial_Coliseum_1.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Alexander+%28American+football%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:William_Alexander_(American_football)" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:William Alexander (American football)">William Alexander (American football)</a></span>.</div></div> </div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://footballfoundation.org/hof_search.aspx?hof=1486">William Alexander</a> at the <a href="/wiki/College_Football_Hall_of_Fame" title="College Football Hall of Fame">College Football Hall of Fame</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142462119">William Alexander</a> at <a href="/wiki/Find_a_Grave" title="Find a Grave">Find a Grave</a> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12860138#P535" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hdl.handle.net/1853/02880">"Digital Collection: William A. Alexander Photograph Collection (VAM145)"</a>. <i>repository.gatech.edu</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=repository.gatech.edu&rft.atitle=Digital+Collection%3A+William+A.+Alexander+Photograph+Collection+%28VAM145%29&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F1853%2F02880&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Alexander+%28American+football%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://finding-aids.library.gatech.edu/repositories/2/resources/114">"Collection: William A. Alexander Papers | Georgia Tech Archives Finding Aids"</a>. <i>finding-aids.library.gatech.edu</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=finding-aids.library.gatech.edu&rft.atitle=Collection%3A+William+A.+Alexander+Papers+%7C+Georgia+Tech+Archives+Finding+Aids&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ffinding-aids.library.gatech.edu%2Frepositories%2F2%2Fresources%2F114&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Alexander+%28American+football%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://finding-aids.library.gatech.edu/repositories/2/resources/179">"Collection: William A. Alexander Photograph Collection | Georgia Tech Archives Finding Aids"</a>. <i>finding-aids.library.gatech.edu</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=finding-aids.library.gatech.edu&rft.atitle=Collection%3A+William+A.+Alexander+Photograph+Collection+%7C+Georgia+Tech+Archives+Finding+Aids&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ffinding-aids.library.gatech.edu%2Frepositories%2F2%2Fresources%2F179&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Alexander+%28American+football%29" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <p><br /> </p> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbox{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox-styles+.navbox{margin-top:-1px}.mw-parser-output .navbox-inner,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-title,.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow{padding:0.25em 1em;line-height:1.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group{white-space:nowrap;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{background-color:#fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-list{line-height:1.5em;border-color:#fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-list-with-group{text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid}.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-group,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-image,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-list{border-top:2px solid #fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-title{background-color:#ccf}.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-title{background-color:#ddf}.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-abovebelow{background-color:#e6e6ff}.mw-parser-output .navbox-even{background-color:#f7f7f7}.mw-parser-output .navbox-odd{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td dl,.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td ol,.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td ul,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist ul{padding:0.125em 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbar{display:block;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-title .navbar{float:left;text-align:left;margin-right:0.5em}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .navbox-image img{max-width:none!important}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .navbox{display:none!important}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239334494">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}</style></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_men&#039;s_basketball_head_coaches" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#B3A369;color:#000000;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003057, inset -2px -2px 0 #003057;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_men%27s_basketball_coach_navbox" title="Template:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball coach navbox"><abbr title="View this template" style="color:#000000">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_men%27s_basketball_coach_navbox" title="Template talk:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball coach navbox"><abbr title="Discuss this template" style="color:#000000">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_men%27s_basketball_coach_navbox" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball coach navbox"><abbr title="Edit this template" style="color:#000000">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_men&#039;s_basketball_head_coaches" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_men%27s_basketball" title="Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#000000">Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball head coaches</span></a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Chapman_(basketball)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Chapman (basketball) (page does not exist)">John Chapman</a> (1905–1906)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>No team</i> (1906–1908)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Heisman" title="John Heisman">John Heisman</a> (1908–1909)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>No team</i> (1909–1912)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Heisman" title="John Heisman">John Heisman</a> (1912–1914)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>No team</i> (1914–1919)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">William Alexander</a> (1919–1920)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Joe_Bean" title="Joe Bean">Joe Bean</a> (1920–1921)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">William Alexander</a> (1921–1924)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Harold_Hansen_(American_football)" title="Harold Hansen (American football)">Harold Hansen</a> (1924–1926)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roy_Mundorff&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Roy Mundorff (page does not exist)">Roy Mundorff</a> (1926–1943)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dwight_Keith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dwight Keith (page does not exist)">Dwight Keith</a> (1943–1946)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roy_McArthur&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Roy McArthur (page does not exist)">Roy McArthur</a> (1946–1951)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Hyder" title="John Hyder">John Hyder</a> (1951–1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dwane_Morrison" title="Dwane Morrison">Dwane Morrison</a> (1973–1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Cremins" title="Bobby Cremins">Bobby Cremins</a> (1981–2000)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Hewitt" title="Paul Hewitt">Paul Hewitt</a> (2000–2011)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Brian_Gregory" title="Brian Gregory">Brian Gregory</a> (2011–2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Josh_Pastner" title="Josh Pastner">Josh Pastner</a> (2016–2023)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Damon_Stoudamire" title="Damon Stoudamire">Damon Stoudamire</a> (2023– )</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_head_football_coaches" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#B3A369;color:black;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003057, inset -2px -2px 0 #003057;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_coach_navbox" title="Template:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football coach navbox"><abbr title="View this template" style="color:black">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_coach_navbox" title="Template talk:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football coach navbox"><abbr title="Discuss this template" style="color:black">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_coach_navbox" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football coach navbox"><abbr title="Edit this template" style="color:black">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_head_football_coaches" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_head_football_coaches" title="List of Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets head football coaches"><span style="color:black">Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets head football coaches</span></a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ernest_E._West_(American_football)" title="Ernest E. West (American football)">Ernest West</a> (1892)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Wood" title="Leonard Wood">Leonard Wood</a> (1893)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rufus_Dorsey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rufus Dorsey (page does not exist)">Dutch Dorsey</a> (1894)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>No team</i> (1895)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/w/index.php?title=J._B._Wood&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="J. B. Wood (page does not exist)">J. B. Wood</a> (1896–1898)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Rufus_B._Nalley" class="mw-redirect" title="Rufus B. Nalley">Cow Nalley</a> (1899)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Harris_T._Collier" title="Harris T. Collier">Harris Collier</a> (1900)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_McKee_(American_football)" title="John McKee (American football)">John McKee</a> (1901)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_Andree" title="George Andree">George Andree</a> (1902)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Huie" title="Oliver Huie">Oliver Huie</a> (1903)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Heisman" title="John Heisman">John Heisman</a> (1904–1919)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">William Alexander</a> (1920–1944)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Dodd" title="Bobby Dodd">Bobby Dodd</a> (1945–1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bud_Carson" title="Bud Carson">Bud Carson</a> (1967–1971)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Fulcher" title="Bill Fulcher">Bill Fulcher</a> (1972–1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Pepper_Rodgers" title="Pepper Rodgers">Pepper Rodgers</a> (1974–1979)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Curry" title="Bill Curry">Bill Curry</a> (1980–1986)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Ross" title="Bobby Ross">Bobby Ross</a> (1987–1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Lewis_(American_football_coach)" title="Bill Lewis (American football coach)">Bill Lewis</a> (1992–1994)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_O%27Leary" title="George O'Leary">George O'Leary</a> (1994–2001)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mac_McWhorter" title="Mac McWhorter">Mac McWhorter</a> # (2001)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Chan_Gailey" title="Chan Gailey">Chan Gailey</a> (2002–2007)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jon_Tenuta" title="Jon Tenuta">Jon Tenuta</a> # (2007)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Johnson_(American_football_coach,_born_1957)" title="Paul Johnson (American football coach, born 1957)">Paul Johnson</a> (2008–2018)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Geoff_Collins_(American_football)" title="Geoff Collins (American football)">Geoff Collins</a> (2019–2022)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Brent_Key" title="Brent Key">Brent Key</a> (2022– )</span></li></ul> <p><i># denotes interim head coach</i> </p> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_athletic_directors" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#B3A369;color:black;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003057, inset -2px -2px 0 #003057;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_athletic_director_navbox" title="Template:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets athletic director navbox"><abbr title="View this template" style="color:black">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_athletic_director_navbox" title="Template talk:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets athletic director navbox"><abbr title="Discuss this template" style="color:black">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_athletic_director_navbox" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets athletic director navbox"><abbr title="Edit this template" style="color:black">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_athletic_directors" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets" title="Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets"><span style="color:black">Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets athletic directors</span></a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Bascom_Crenshaw" title="John Bascom Crenshaw">John Bascom Crenshaw</a> (1904)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Heisman" title="John Heisman">John Heisman</a> (1904–1919)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">William Alexander</a> (1920–1950)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Dodd" title="Bobby Dodd">Bobby Dodd</a> (1950–1976)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Doug_Weaver" title="Doug Weaver">Doug Weaver</a> (1976–1979)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Homer_Rice" title="Homer Rice">Homer Rice</a> (1980–1997)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Braine_(athletic_director)" title="David Braine (athletic director)">David Braine</a> (1997–2006)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dan_Radakovich" title="Dan Radakovich">Dan Radakovich</a> (2006–2012)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mike_Bobinski" title="Mike Bobinski">Mike Bobinski</a> (2013–2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Griffin_(athletic_director)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Griffin (athletic director) (page does not exist)">Paul Griffin</a> # (2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Todd_Stansbury" title="Todd Stansbury">Todd Stansbury</a> (2016–2022)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/w/index.php?title=J_Batt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="J Batt (page does not exist)">J Batt</a> (2022– )</span></li></ul> <p><i># denotes interim athletic director</i> </p> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="1928_Georgia_Tech_Golden_Tornado_football—national_champions" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#B3A369;color:#000000;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003057, inset -2px -2px 0 #003057;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:1928_Georgia_Tech_Golden_Tornado_football_navbox" title="Template:1928 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football navbox"><abbr title="View this template" style="color:#000000">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:1928_Georgia_Tech_Golden_Tornado_football_navbox" title="Template talk:1928 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football navbox"><abbr title="Discuss this template" style="color:#000000">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:1928_Georgia_Tech_Golden_Tornado_football_navbox" title="Special:EditPage/Template:1928 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football navbox"><abbr title="Edit this template" style="color:#000000">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="1928_Georgia_Tech_Golden_Tornado_football—national_champions" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/1928_Georgia_Tech_Golden_Tornado_football_team" title="1928 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team"><span style="color:#000000;">1928 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football—national champions</span></a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>5 <a href="/wiki/Tom_Jones_(end)" title="Tom Jones (end)">Tom Jones</a></li> <li>10 <a href="/wiki/Raleigh_Drennon" title="Raleigh Drennon">Raleigh Drennon</a></li> <li>15 <a href="/wiki/Peter_Pund" title="Peter Pund">Peter Pund</a></li> <li>38 <a href="/wiki/Vance_Maree" title="Vance Maree">Vance Maree</a></li> <li>48 <a href="/wiki/Frank_Speer" title="Frank Speer">Frank Speer</a></li> <li>59 <a href="/wiki/Father_Lumpkin" title="Father Lumpkin">Father Lumpkin</a></li> <li>67 <a href="/wiki/Warner_Mizell" title="Warner Mizell">Warner Mizell</a></li> <li>70 <a href="/wiki/Frank_Waddey" title="Frank Waddey">Frank Waddey</a></li> <li>71 <a href="/wiki/Stumpy_Thomason" title="Stumpy Thomason">Stumpy Thomason</a></li></ul> <dl><dt><span class="nobold">Head coach</span></dt> <dd><a class="mw-selflink selflink">William Alexander</a></dd> <dt><span class="nobold">Assistant coaches</span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Bill_Fincher" title="Bill Fincher">Bill Fincher</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Don_Miller_(American_football,_born_1902)" title="Don Miller (American football, born 1902)">Don Miller</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Mack_Tharpe" title="Mack Tharpe">Mack Tharpe</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="AFCA_Division_I_FBS_Coach_of_the_Year_winners" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:AFCA_Coach_of_the_Year" title="Template:AFCA Coach of the Year"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:AFCA_Coach_of_the_Year" title="Template talk:AFCA Coach of the Year"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:AFCA_Coach_of_the_Year" title="Special:EditPage/Template:AFCA Coach of the Year"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="AFCA_Division_I_FBS_Coach_of_the_Year_winners" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/AFCA_Coach_of_the_Year_Award" title="AFCA Coach of the Year Award">AFCA Division I FBS Coach of the Year</a> winners</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">1935: <a href="/wiki/Pappy_Waldorf" title="Pappy Waldorf">Waldorf</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1936: <a href="/wiki/Dick_Harlow" title="Dick Harlow">Harlow</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1937: <a href="/wiki/Edward_Mylin" title="Edward Mylin">Mylin</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1938: <a href="/wiki/Bill_Kern" title="Bill Kern">Kern</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1939: <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Anderson_(American_football_coach)" title="Eddie Anderson (American football coach)">Anderson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1940: <a href="/wiki/Clark_Shaughnessy" title="Clark Shaughnessy">Shaughnessy</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1941: <a href="/wiki/Frank_Leahy" title="Frank Leahy">Leahy</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1942: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Alexander</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1943: <a href="/wiki/Amos_Alonzo_Stagg" title="Amos Alonzo Stagg">Stagg</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1944: <a href="/wiki/Carroll_Widdoes" title="Carroll Widdoes">Widdoes</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1945: <a href="/wiki/Bo_McMillin" title="Bo McMillin">McMillin</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1946: <a href="/wiki/Earl_Blaik" title="Earl Blaik">Blaik</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1947: <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Crisler" title="Fritz Crisler">Crisler</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1948: <a href="/wiki/Bennie_Oosterbaan" title="Bennie Oosterbaan">Oosterbaan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1949: <a href="/wiki/Bud_Wilkinson" title="Bud Wilkinson">Wilkinson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1950: <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Caldwell" title="Charlie Caldwell">Caldwell</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1951: <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Taylor_(American_football)" title="Chuck Taylor (American football)">Taylor</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1952: <a href="/wiki/Clarence_Munn" title="Clarence Munn">Munn</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1953: <a href="/wiki/Jim_Tatum" title="Jim Tatum">Tatum</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1954: <a href="/wiki/Henry_Russell_Sanders" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Russell Sanders">Sanders</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1955: <a href="/wiki/Duffy_Daugherty" title="Duffy Daugherty">Daugherty</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1956: <a href="/wiki/Bowden_Wyatt" title="Bowden Wyatt">Wyatt</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1957: <a href="/wiki/Woody_Hayes" title="Woody Hayes">Hayes</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1958: <a href="/wiki/Paul_Dietzel" title="Paul Dietzel">Dietzel</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1959: <a href="/wiki/Ben_Schwartzwalder" title="Ben Schwartzwalder">Schwartzwalder</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1960: <a href="/wiki/Murray_Warmath" title="Murray Warmath">Warmath</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1961: <a href="/wiki/Bear_Bryant" title="Bear Bryant">Bryant</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1962: <a href="/wiki/John_McKay_(American_football)" title="John McKay (American football)">McKay</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1963: <a href="/wiki/Darrell_Royal" title="Darrell Royal">Royal</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1964: <a href="/wiki/Frank_Broyles" title="Frank Broyles">Broyles</a> & <a href="/wiki/Ara_Parseghian" title="Ara Parseghian">Parseghian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1965: <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Prothro" title="Tommy Prothro">Prothro</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1966: <a href="/wiki/Tom_Cahill_(American_football)" title="Tom Cahill (American football)">Cahill</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1967: <a href="/wiki/John_Pont" title="John Pont">Pont</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1968: <a href="/wiki/Joe_Paterno" title="Joe Paterno">Paterno</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1969: <a href="/wiki/Bo_Schembechler" title="Bo Schembechler">Schembechler</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1970: <a href="/wiki/Charles_McClendon" title="Charles McClendon"> McClendon</a> & <a href="/wiki/Darrell_Royal" title="Darrell Royal">Royal</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1971: <a href="/wiki/Bear_Bryant" title="Bear Bryant">Bryant</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1972: <a href="/wiki/John_McKay_(American_football)" title="John McKay (American football)">McKay</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1973: <a href="/wiki/Bear_Bryant" title="Bear Bryant">Bryant</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1974: <a href="/wiki/Grant_Teaff" title="Grant Teaff">Teaff</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1975: <a href="/wiki/Frank_Kush" title="Frank Kush">Kush</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1976: <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Majors" title="Johnny Majors">Majors</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1977: <a href="/wiki/Don_James_(American_football)" title="Don James (American football)">James</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1978: <a href="/wiki/Joe_Paterno" title="Joe Paterno">Paterno</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1979: <a href="/wiki/Earle_Bruce" title="Earle Bruce">Bruce</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1980: <a href="/wiki/Vince_Dooley" title="Vince Dooley">Dooley</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1981: <a href="/wiki/Danny_Ford" title="Danny Ford">Ford</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1982: <a href="/wiki/Joe_Paterno" title="Joe Paterno">Paterno</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1983: <a href="/wiki/Ken_Hatfield" title="Ken Hatfield">Hatfield</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1984: <a href="/wiki/LaVell_Edwards" title="LaVell Edwards">Edwards</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1985: <a href="/wiki/Fisher_DeBerry" title="Fisher DeBerry">DeBerry</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1986: <a href="/wiki/Joe_Paterno" title="Joe Paterno">Paterno</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1987: <a href="/wiki/Dick_MacPherson" title="Dick MacPherson">MacPherson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1988: <a href="/wiki/Don_Nehlen" title="Don Nehlen">Nehlen</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1989: <a href="/wiki/Bill_McCartney" title="Bill McCartney">McCartney</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1990: <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Ross" title="Bobby Ross">Ross</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1991: <a href="/wiki/Bill_Lewis_(American_football_coach)" title="Bill Lewis (American football coach)">B. Lewis</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1992: <a href="/wiki/Gene_Stallings" title="Gene Stallings">Stallings</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1993: <a href="/wiki/Barry_Alvarez" title="Barry Alvarez">Alvarez</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1994: <a href="/wiki/Tom_Osborne" title="Tom Osborne">Osborne</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1995: <a href="/wiki/Gary_Barnett" title="Gary Barnett">Barnett</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1996: <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Snyder" title="Bruce Snyder">Br. Snyder</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1997: <a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Carr" title="Lloyd Carr">Carr</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1998: <a href="/wiki/Phil_Fulmer" class="mw-redirect" title="Phil Fulmer">Fulmer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1999: <a href="/wiki/Frank_Beamer" title="Frank Beamer">Beamer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2000: <a href="/wiki/Bob_Stoops" title="Bob Stoops">Stoops</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2001: <a href="/wiki/Larry_Coker" title="Larry Coker">Coker</a> & <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Friedgen" title="Ralph Friedgen">Friedgen</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2002: <a href="/wiki/Jim_Tressel" title="Jim Tressel">Tressel</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2003: <a href="/wiki/Pete_Carroll" title="Pete Carroll">Carroll</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2004: <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Tuberville" title="Tommy Tuberville">Tuberville</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2005: <a href="/wiki/Joe_Paterno" title="Joe Paterno">Paterno</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2006: <a href="/wiki/Jim_Grobe" title="Jim Grobe">Grobe</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2007: <a href="/wiki/Mark_Mangino" title="Mark Mangino">Mangino</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2008: <a href="/wiki/Kyle_Whittingham" title="Kyle Whittingham">Whittingham</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2009: <a href="/wiki/Gary_Patterson" title="Gary Patterson">Patterson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2010: <a href="/wiki/Chip_Kelly" title="Chip Kelly">C. Kelly</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2011: <a href="/wiki/Les_Miles" title="Les Miles">Miles</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2012: <a href="/wiki/Brian_Kelly_(American_football_coach)" title="Brian Kelly (American football coach)">B. Kelly</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2013: <a href="/wiki/David_Cutcliffe" title="David Cutcliffe">Cutcliffe</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2014: <a href="/wiki/Gary_Patterson" title="Gary Patterson">Patterson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2015: <a href="/wiki/Dabo_Swinney" title="Dabo Swinney">Swinney</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2016: <a href="/wiki/Mike_MacIntyre" title="Mike MacIntyre">MacIntyre</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2017: <a href="/wiki/Scott_Frost" title="Scott Frost">Frost</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2018: <a href="/wiki/Mike_Leach_(American_football_coach)" title="Mike Leach (American football coach)">Leach</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2019: <a href="/wiki/Ed_Orgeron" title="Ed Orgeron">Orgeron</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2020: <a href="/wiki/Tom_Allen_(American_football)" title="Tom Allen (American football)">Allen</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2021: <a href="/wiki/Luke_Fickell" title="Luke Fickell">Fickell</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2022: <a href="/wiki/Sonny_Dykes" title="Sonny Dykes">Dykes</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2023: <a href="/wiki/Kalen_DeBoer" title="Kalen DeBoer">DeBoer</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Amos_Alonzo_Stagg_Award_winners" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Amos_Alonzo_Stagg_Award" title="Template:Amos Alonzo Stagg Award"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Amos_Alonzo_Stagg_Award" title="Template talk:Amos Alonzo Stagg Award"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Amos_Alonzo_Stagg_Award" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Amos Alonzo Stagg Award"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Amos_Alonzo_Stagg_Award_winners" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Amos_Alonzo_Stagg_Award" title="Amos Alonzo Stagg Award">Amos Alonzo Stagg Award</a> winners</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">1940: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Donald_Herring_Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Donald Herring Jr. (page does not exist)">Herring Jr.</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1941: <a href="/wiki/Butch_Cowell" title="Butch Cowell">Cowell</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1942–1945 <i>No award given</i> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1946: <a href="/wiki/Grantland_Rice" title="Grantland Rice">Rice</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1947: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Alexander</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1948: <a href="/wiki/Gil_Dobie" title="Gil Dobie">Dobie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pop_Warner" title="Pop Warner">Warner</a> & <a href="/wiki/Robert_Zuppke" title="Robert Zuppke">Zuppke</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1949: <a href="/wiki/Dick_Harlow" title="Dick Harlow">Harlow</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1950 <i>No award given</i> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1951: <a href="/wiki/Tuss_McLaughry" title="Tuss McLaughry">McLaughry</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1952: <a href="/wiki/Bo_McMillin" title="Bo McMillin">McMillin</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1953: <a href="/wiki/Lou_Little" title="Lou Little">Little</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1954: <a href="/wiki/Dana_X._Bible" title="Dana X. Bible">Bible</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1955: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_J._Tomlin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joseph J. Tomlin (page does not exist)">Tomlin</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1956 <i>No award given</i> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1957: <a href="/wiki/Robert_Neyland" title="Robert Neyland">Neyland</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1958: <a href="/wiki/Bernie_Bierman" title="Bernie Bierman">Bierman</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1959: <a href="/wiki/John_Wilce" title="John Wilce">Wilce</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1960: <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Harman" title="Harvey Harman">Harman</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1961: <a href="/wiki/Ray_Eliot" title="Ray Eliot">Eliot</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1962: <a href="/wiki/Tad_Wieman" title="Tad Wieman">Wieman</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1963: <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Kerr" title="Andrew Kerr">Kerr</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1964: <a href="/wiki/Don_Faurot" title="Don Faurot">Faurot</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1965: <a href="/wiki/Harry_Stuhldreher" title="Harry Stuhldreher">Stuhldreher</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1966: <a href="/wiki/Bernie_Moore" title="Bernie Moore">Moore</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1967: <a href="/wiki/Jess_Neely" title="Jess Neely">Neely</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1968: <a href="/wiki/Abe_Martin_(Texas_coach)" title="Abe Martin (Texas coach)">Martin</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1969: <a href="/wiki/Rip_Engle" title="Rip Engle">Engle</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1970: <a href="/wiki/Pappy_Waldorf" title="Pappy Waldorf">Waldorf</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1971: <a href="/wiki/Bill_Murray_(American_football_coach)" title="Bill Murray (American football coach)">Murray</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1972: <a href="/wiki/Jack_Curtice" title="Jack Curtice">Curtice</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1973: <a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Jordan" title="Lloyd Jordan">Jordan</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1974: <a href="/wiki/Jake_Gaither" title="Jake Gaither">Gaither</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1975: <a href="/wiki/Gerald_B._Zornow" title="Gerald B. Zornow">Zornow</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1976 <i>No award given</i> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1977: <a href="/wiki/Ben_Schwartzwalder" title="Ben Schwartzwalder">Schwartzwalder</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1978: <a href="/wiki/Tom_Hamilton_(American_football)" title="Tom Hamilton (American football)">Hamilton</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1979: <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Crisler" title="Fritz Crisler">Crisler</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1980 <i>No award given</i> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1981: <a href="/wiki/Fred_Russell" title="Fred Russell">Russell</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1982: <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Robinson_(American_football_coach)" title="Eddie Robinson (American football coach)">Robinson</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1983: <a href="/wiki/Bear_Bryant" title="Bear Bryant">Bryant</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1984: <a href="/wiki/Bud_Wilkinson" title="Bud Wilkinson">Wilkinson</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1985: <a href="/wiki/Duffy_Daugherty" title="Duffy Daugherty">Daugherty</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1986: <a href="/wiki/Woody_Hayes" title="Woody Hayes">Hayes</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1987: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Field_Scovell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Field Scovell (page does not exist)">Scovell</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1988: <a href="/wiki/Herb_McCracken" title="Herb McCracken">McCracken</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1989: <a href="/wiki/David_M._Nelson" title="David M. Nelson">Nelson</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1990: <a href="/wiki/Len_Casanova" title="Len Casanova">Casanova</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1991: <a href="/wiki/Bob_Blackman_(American_football)" title="Bob Blackman (American football)">Blackman</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1992: <a href="/wiki/Charles_McClendon" title="Charles McClendon">McClendon</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1993: <a href="/wiki/Keith_Jackson" title="Keith Jackson">Jackson</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1994: <a href="/wiki/Bob_Devaney" title="Bob Devaney">Devaney</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1995: <a href="/wiki/John_Merritt_(American_football)" title="John Merritt (American football)">Merritt</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1996: <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Neinas" title="Chuck Neinas">Neinas</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1997: <a href="/wiki/Ara_Parseghian" title="Ara Parseghian">Parseghian</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1998: <a href="/wiki/Bob_Reade" title="Bob Reade">Reade</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1999: <a href="/wiki/Bo_Schembechler" title="Bo Schembechler">Schembechler</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2000: <a href="/wiki/Tom_Osborne" title="Tom Osborne">Osborne</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2001: <a href="/wiki/Vince_Dooley" title="Vince Dooley">Dooley</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2002: <a href="/wiki/Joe_Paterno" title="Joe Paterno">Paterno</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2003: <a href="/wiki/LaVell_Edwards" title="LaVell Edwards">Edwards</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2004: <a href="/wiki/Ron_Schipper" title="Ron Schipper">Schipper</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2005: <a href="/wiki/Hayden_Fry" title="Hayden Fry">Fry</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2006: <a href="/wiki/Grant_Teaff" title="Grant Teaff">Teaff</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2007: <a href="/wiki/Bill_Curry" title="Bill Curry">Curry</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2008: <a href="/wiki/Bill_Walsh_(American_football_coach)" title="Bill Walsh (American football coach)">Walsh</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2009: <a href="/wiki/John_Gagliardi" title="John Gagliardi">Gagliardi</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2010: <a href="/wiki/Darrell_Royal" title="Darrell Royal">Royal</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2011: <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Bowden" title="Bobby Bowden">Bowden</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2012: <a href="/wiki/Fisher_DeBerry" title="Fisher DeBerry">DeBerry</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2013: <a href="/wiki/Frosty_Westering" title="Frosty Westering">Westering</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2014: <a href="/wiki/R._C._Slocum" title="R. C. Slocum">Slocum</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2015: <a href="/wiki/Ken_Hatfield" title="Ken Hatfield">Hatfield</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2016: <a href="/wiki/John_Cooper_(American_football)" title="John Cooper (American football)">Cooper</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2017: <a href="/wiki/Don_Nehlen" title="Don Nehlen">Nehlen</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2018: <a href="/wiki/Frank_Broyles" title="Frank Broyles">Broyles</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2019: <a href="/wiki/Marv_Levy" title="Marv Levy">Levy</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2020: <a href="/wiki/Dick_Tomey" title="Dick Tomey">Tomey</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2021: <i>No award given</i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2022: <a href="/wiki/Mel_Tjeerdsma" title="Mel Tjeerdsma">Tjeerdsma</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2023: <a href="/wiki/Roy_Kidd" title="Roy Kidd">Kidd</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2024: <a href="/wiki/Larry_Kehres" title="Larry Kehres">Kehres</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <!-- NewPP limit report Parsed by mw‐web.codfw.main‐f69cdc8f6‐wdqp9 Cached time: 20241122154635 Cache expiry: 2592000 Reduced expiry: false Complications: [vary‐revision‐sha1, show‐toc] CPU time usage: 0.636 seconds Real time usage: 0.855 seconds Preprocessor visited node count: 6124/1000000 Post‐expand include size: 143922/2097152 bytes Template argument size: 11422/2097152 bytes Highest expansion depth: 17/100 Expensive parser function count: 4/500 Unstrip recursion depth: 1/20 Unstrip post‐expand size: 114517/5000000 bytes Lua time usage: 0.335/10.000 seconds Lua memory usage: 7607053/52428800 bytes Number of Wikibase entities loaded: 1/400 --> <!-- Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template) 100.00% 736.538 1 -total 24.94% 183.726 6 Template:Infobox 19.03% 140.131 1 Template:Infobox_college_coach 17.28% 127.295 1 Template:Reflist 16.79% 123.628 1 Template:Short_description 16.45% 121.171 4 Template:Navbox 14.86% 109.437 1 Template:Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_men's_basketball_coach_navbox 13.62% 100.307 2 Template:Pagetype 8.91% 65.650 2 Template:Cite_journal 6.76% 49.789 2 Template:Team_roster_navbox --> <!-- Saved in parser cache with key enwiki:pcache:idhash:2675629-0!canonical and timestamp 20241122154635 and revision id 1256230993. Rendering was triggered because: page-view --> </div><!--esi <esi:include src="/esitest-fa8a495983347898/content" /> --><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&oldid=1256230993">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&oldid=1256230993</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:1889_births" title="Category:1889 births">1889 births</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:1950_deaths" title="Category:1950 deaths">1950 deaths</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:American_football_ends" title="Category:American football ends">American football ends</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:American_football_quarterbacks" title="Category:American football quarterbacks">American football quarterbacks</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_athletic_directors" title="Category:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets athletic directors">Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets athletic directors</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_coaches" title="Category:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football coaches">Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football coaches</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_players" title="Category:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football players">Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football players</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_men%27s_basketball_coaches" title="Category:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball coaches">Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball coaches</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:College_Football_Hall_of_Fame_inductees" title="Category:College Football Hall of Fame inductees">College Football Hall of Fame inductees</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Basketball_coaches_from_Kentucky" title="Category:Basketball coaches from Kentucky">Basketball coaches from Kentucky</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Coaches_of_American_football_from_Kentucky" title="Category:Coaches of American football from Kentucky">Coaches of American football from Kentucky</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Players_of_American_football_from_Kentucky" title="Category:Players of American football from Kentucky">Players of American football from Kentucky</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Presidents_of_the_American_Football_Coaches_Association" title="Category:Presidents of the American Football Coaches Association">Presidents of the American Football Coaches Association</a></li></ul></div><div id="mw-hidden-catlinks" class="mw-hidden-catlinks mw-hidden-cats-hidden">Hidden categories: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_with_short_description" title="Category:Articles with short description">Articles with short description</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Short_description_is_different_from_Wikidata" title="Category:Short description is different from Wikidata">Short description is different from Wikidata</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Use_American_English_from_December_2019" title="Category:Use American English from December 2019">Use American English from December 2019</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:All_Wikipedia_articles_written_in_American_English" title="Category:All Wikipedia articles written in American English">All Wikipedia articles written in American English</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Use_mdy_dates_from_December_2019" title="Category:Use mdy dates from December 2019">Use mdy dates from December 2019</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Commons_category_link_from_Wikidata" title="Category:Commons category link from Wikidata">Commons category link from Wikidata</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 8 November 2024, at 22:18<span class="anonymous-show"> (UTC)</span>.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License</a>; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Terms_of_Use" class="extiw" title="foundation:Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Terms of Use">Terms of Use</a> and <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Privacy_policy" class="extiw" title="foundation:Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Privacy policy">Privacy Policy</a>. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/">Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.</a>, a non-profit organization.</li> </ul> <ul id="footer-places"> <li id="footer-places-privacy"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Privacy_policy">Privacy policy</a></li> <li id="footer-places-about"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:About">About Wikipedia</a></li> <li id="footer-places-disclaimers"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer">Disclaimers</a></li> <li id="footer-places-contact"><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us">Contact Wikipedia</a></li> <li id="footer-places-wm-codeofconduct"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Universal_Code_of_Conduct">Code of Conduct</a></li> <li id="footer-places-developers"><a href="https://developer.wikimedia.org">Developers</a></li> <li id="footer-places-statslink"><a href="https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org">Statistics</a></li> <li id="footer-places-cookiestatement"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Cookie_statement">Cookie statement</a></li> <li id="footer-places-mobileview"><a href="//en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Alexander_(American_football)&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile" class="noprint stopMobileRedirectToggle">Mobile view</a></li> </ul> <ul id="footer-icons" class="noprint"> <li id="footer-copyrightico"><a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button--enabled"><img src="/static/images/footer/wikimedia-button.svg" width="84" height="29" alt="Wikimedia Foundation" loading="lazy"></a></li> <li id="footer-poweredbyico"><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button--enabled"><img src="/w/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki.svg" alt="Powered by MediaWiki" width="88" height="31" loading="lazy"></a></li> </ul> </footer> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-settings" id="p-dock-bottom"> <ul></ul> </div><script>(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgHostname":"mw-web.codfw.main-f69cdc8f6-gbhlh","wgBackendResponseTime":165,"wgPageParseReport":{"limitreport":{"cputime":"0.636","walltime":"0.855","ppvisitednodes":{"value":6124,"limit":1000000},"postexpandincludesize":{"value":143922,"limit":2097152},"templateargumentsize":{"value":11422,"limit":2097152},"expansiondepth":{"value":17,"limit":100},"expensivefunctioncount":{"value":4,"limit":500},"unstrip-depth":{"value":1,"limit":20},"unstrip-size":{"value":114517,"limit":5000000},"entityaccesscount":{"value":1,"limit":400},"timingprofile":["100.00% 736.538 1 -total"," 24.94% 183.726 6 Template:Infobox"," 19.03% 140.131 1 Template:Infobox_college_coach"," 17.28% 127.295 1 Template:Reflist"," 16.79% 123.628 1 Template:Short_description"," 16.45% 121.171 4 Template:Navbox"," 14.86% 109.437 1 Template:Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_men's_basketball_coach_navbox"," 13.62% 100.307 2 Template:Pagetype"," 8.91% 65.650 2 Template:Cite_journal"," 6.76% 49.789 2 Template:Team_roster_navbox"]},"scribunto":{"limitreport-timeusage":{"value":"0.335","limit":"10.000"},"limitreport-memusage":{"value":7607053,"limit":52428800}},"cachereport":{"origin":"mw-web.codfw.main-f69cdc8f6-wdqp9","timestamp":"20241122154635","ttl":2592000,"transientcontent":false}}});});</script> <script type="application/ld+json">{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Article","name":"William Alexander (American football)","url":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Alexander_(American_football)","sameAs":"http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q12860138","mainEntity":"http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q12860138","author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Contributors to Wikimedia projects"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.org\/static\/images\/wmf-hor-googpub.png"}},"datePublished":"2005-09-14T03:56:06Z","dateModified":"2024-11-08T22:18:23Z","image":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/b4\/William_A._Alexander.png","headline":"American football coach, born 1889"}</script> </body> </html>