 | |
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 22, 1913 McColl, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | July 23, 1959 (aged 46) Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1933–1935 | North Carolina |
| Baseball | |
| 1934–1936 | North Carolina |
| 1937 | Tarboro Serpents |
| 1938–1939 | Snow Hill Billies |
| Position(s) | Tackle (football) Catcher (baseball) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1936–1938 | Cornell (assistant) |
| 1939–1941 | North Carolina (assistant) |
| 1942 | North Carolina |
| 1943 | Iowa Pre-Flight (assistant) |
| 1945 | Jacksonville NAS |
| 1946 | Oklahoma |
| 1947–1955 | Maryland |
| 1956–1958 | North Carolina |
| Baseball | |
| 1937–1939 | Cornell |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1948–1956 | Maryland |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 109–37–7 (football)[n 1] 20–40–1 (baseball) |
| Bowls | 4–2 |
| 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) 2× ACC Coach of the Year (1953, 1955) | |
| 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.
- ^ Hickman, Herman (September 23, 1957). "Atlantic Coast Conference". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved October 22, 2010.
- ^ "Maryland Football Record Book" (PDF). University of Maryland. p. 8. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
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