Dana X. Bible

(1891-1980) lived in Lincoln. College football coach and administrator, one of the most successful college football coaches in history, he compiled in 33 seasons as head coach at Mississippi College, Louisiana State, Texas A & M, University of Nebraska, and University of Texas an NCAA Division I record of 198 wins, 72 losses, and 23 ties, with his teams winning 14 conference championships and appearances in three Cotton Bowl games; credited with initiating on January 2, 1922 the Texas A & M tradition of the 12th man in which A & M students stand for each entire football game; helped modernize college football after World War II, authored classic text Championship Football (1947), and received several honors, including election to eight halls of fame. Consult UNL Nebraska Alumnus, November 1936, pp. 6-7 and New York Times obituary, January 20, 1980, p. 32 and Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Football (Greenwood Press, 1987) 46-47 and Dictionary of American Biography, Sup 10 (1995) 37-38.

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