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Preston Vaughn Overall

1897 – 1974

American football player and coach, basketball coach, baseball coach

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Lived 1897 – 1974 (aged 76). Preston Vaughn Overall was an american football player.

Preston Vaughn "Putty" Overall (June 5, 1897 – January 1, 1974) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head coach of football, baseball, and basketball at Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, now known as Tennessee Tech. He came out of retirement in 1952 and coached Tech's football team, posting a 9–1 regular season record plus an invitation to the 1953 Tangerine Bowl. Overall played football at Middle Tennessee State, where he was captain of the 1917 team, as well as one year with Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores, in 1921. The First Fifty Years: A History of Middle Tennessee State College tells us "During his Murfreesboro days, "Putty Overall" was a hulking giant of two hundred and seventy-five pounds who required custom-made uniforms." He was honored in 1961 as a distinguished alumnus of Middle Tennessee State University.

Overall died on January 1, 1974, at a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Vanderbilt University

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Who was Preston Vaughn Overall?

American football player and coach, basketball coach, baseball coach

When was Preston Vaughn Overall born?

Preston Vaughn Overall was born on 5 June 1897 in Murfreesboro.

When did Preston Vaughn Overall die?

Preston Vaughn Overall died on 1 January 1974 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Preston Vaughn Overall was an american football player.

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