Jim Tatum

Jim Tatum
Biographical details
Born(1913-07-22)July 22, 1913
McColl, South Carolina, U.S.
DiedJuly 23, 1959(1959-07-23) (aged 46)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
Playing career
Football
1933–1935North Carolina
Baseball
1934–1936North Carolina
1937Tarboro Serpents
1938–1939Snow Hill Billies
Position(s)Tackle (football)
Catcher (baseball)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1936–1938Cornell (assistant)
1939–1941North Carolina (assistant)
1942North Carolina
1943Iowa Pre-Flight (assistant)
1945Jacksonville NAS
1946Oklahoma
1947–1955Maryland
1956–1958North Carolina
Baseball
1937–1939Cornell
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1948–1956Maryland
Head coaching record
Overall109–37–7 (football)[n 1]
20–40–1 (baseball)
Bowls4–2
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Football
1 National (1953)
1[2] Big Six (1946)
1 SoCon (1951)
2 ACC (1953, 1955)
Awards
Football
AFCA Coach of the Year (1953)
ACC Coach of the Year (1953, 1955)
First-team All-SoCon (1934)
Second-team All-SoCon (1933)
College Football Hall of Fame
Inducted in 1984 (profile)

James Moore "Big Jim" Tatum (July 22, 1913 – July 23, 1959) was an American football and baseball player and coach. Tatum served as the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1942, 1956–1958), the University of Oklahoma (1946), and the University of Maryland, College Park (1947–1955), compiling a career college football record of 100–35–7.[n 1] His 1953 Maryland team won a national title. As a head coach, he employed the split-T formation with great success, a system he had learned as an assistant under Don Faurot at the Iowa Pre-Flight School during World War II. Tatum was also the head baseball coach at Cornell University from 1937 to 1939, tallying a mark of 20–40–1. Tatum's career was cut short by his untimely death in 1959. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1984.

  1. ^ Hickman, Herman (September 23, 1957). "Atlantic Coast Conference". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012. Retrieved October 22, 2010.
  2. ^ "Maryland Football Record Book" (PDF). University of Maryland. p. 8. Retrieved May 5, 2020.


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