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Biographical details | |
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Born | Arkansas, U.S. | September 17, 1908
Died | March 3, 1960 Athens, Georgia, U.S. | (aged 51)
Playing career | |
Football | |
1930–1931 | Alabama |
Position(s) | Tackle |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1932–1934 | Alabama (assistant) |
1937 | LSU (freshmen) |
1938 | LSU (line) |
1939–1949 | Georgia (assistant) |
1950–1954 | Oklahoma A&M |
1955–1957 | Alabama |
1959 | Georgia (assistant) |
Baseball | |
1933–1934 | Alabama |
1943 | Georgia |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 26–51–14 (football) 22–21 (baseball) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
As coach:
As player: | |
Jennings Bryan "Ears" Whitworth (September 17, 1908 – March 3, 1960) was an American football player and coach of football and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College—now known as Oklahoma State University–Stillwater—from 1950 to 1954 and the University of Alabama from 1955 to 1957, compiling a career college football coaching record of 26–51–4. Whitworth also coached baseball at Alabama from 1933 to 1934 and the University of Georgia in 1943, tallying a career college baseball coaching mark of 22–21.