Honus Craig

John Livingston "Honus" Craig (November 30, 1881 – April 18, 1942) was an American college football player and coach.

Early years John Livingston Craig was born on November 30, 1881, in Culleoka, Tennessee, to Thompson Sloan Craig and Ella Cline.

Playing career

Vanderbilt Craig was a prominent halfback for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores football teams which won four SIAA titles. He was also selected All-Southern four times. McGugin once called him the South's greatest athlete and Vanderbilt's greatest halfback. One report says "When Craig was confronted with the above formidable title yesterday by a reporter whose business it is to know such things, he blushed like a girl and tried to show why Dan McGugin's judgment is not always to be trusted." He was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1920-1969 era team. In 1915, John Heisman selected Craig for his list of the 30 greatest Southern football players.

1906 Vanderbilt had a major intersection for the first time when it defeated Carlisle in 1906 by a single Bob Blake drop kick, "the crowning feat of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association season." Craig called this his hardest game, Earlier in the game Craig caught a 35-yard touchdown pass from Blake.

Coaching career Craig once coached at the Columbia Military Academy.

Polytechnic College Craig was coach and athletic director at Texas Wesleyan University (then called Polytechnic College).

Death Craig died on April 18, 1942, in Maury County, Tennessee, while on a fishing trip. At the time of his death he was safety director for the Tennessee State Highway Department.