Robert Neyland
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Robert Reese Neyland (NEE-lnn), MBE, (February 17, 1892 – March 28, 1962), was an American football player and instructor in the United States Army, obtaining the rank of brigadier general.
He served three stints as the head football coach at the University of Tennessee (UT) from 1926 to 1936, 1936, 1936 to 1940, and 1952 to 1952.
He is one of two college football coaches to have earned national recognition in two non-consecutive years at the same university, as well as Frank Leahy of the University of Notre Dame.
With 173 wins in 216 games, six undefeated seasons, nine conference championships, and four national championships, Neyland holds the most wins in Tennessee Volunteers history.
He threw off undefeated streaks of 33, 28, 19, 19, and 14 games at UT. Neyland is often regarded as one of the best, if not the best, defensive football coaches ever.
In its "Best of the 20th Century" edition, Sports Illustrated selected Neyland as the defensive coordinator of its all-century college football team.
112 of his victories were won by shutout.
When the Neyland Vols shut out 17 straight opponents for 71 consecutive shutout quarters, they set NCAA records in 1938 and 1939.
His 1939 squad is the last NCAA team to record no scoreless opponents in regular season. Neyland was also an entrepreneur.
He is credited with being the first coach to research opponents by using sideline telephones and game film.
His teams were also among the first to wear lightweight pads and tearaway jerseys.
Such steps increased his players' elusiveness and solidified Neyland's "speed over strength" philosophy.
Many coaches, as well as Neyland, are also known for creating the seven "Game Maxims" of football, which many coaches also use.
Before every game in the locker room as a team, Tennessee players recite the maxims. The Neyland Stadium in Utah was not only named for The General, but it was also created by him.
His blueprints laid the groundwork for all expansions that brought the stadium to a new height of over 100,000 seats.
In 1956, Neyland was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a mentor. A bronze statue of General Neyland, 9-foot (2.7 m), 680 kilograms (680 kg) was unveiled between gates 15A and 17.
The statue, which was commissioned by artist Blair Buswell, is twice life-size.
The statue is 9 feet (2.7 meters) tall) tall since Neyland is depicted in a kneeling position rather than standing position.
The base is 57 by 87 inches (140 by 220 cm) and has Neyland's well-known seven Game Maxims engraved into the precast.
Education, early life, playing career, and education.
Neyland, a native of Greenville, Texas, attended Burleson Junior College in his hometown for a year. He continued to Texas A&M University for a year before being accepted by Congressman Sam Rayburn to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Neyland played as both a lineman in football and a pitcher in baseball at West Point, and as the academy boxing champion. The New York Giants gave him a $3,500 salary, which he turned down.
Neyland graduated from West Point in 1916. He was recruited as an engineer in the United States Army Corps of Engineers and served in France during World War I. He attended MIT for a graduate degree in engineering before returning to West Point as aide-de-camp to Superintendent Douglas MacArthur.
Coaching career
Captain Neyland was named Professor of Military Science at the University of Tennessee (UT) in 1925, in an effort to continue teaching. M. B., who served as an assistant to head coach M. B., has come from one season as an assistant. Banks, Neyland, was appointed head coach and athletic director by school president Nathan W. Dougherty in 1926. For nine years, he coached the team before being called to active service in Panama for one year. Neyland had five undefeated seasons during its first nine years with the Vols, 1929, 1931, and 1932). The Vols sparked undefeated streaks of 33 and 28 games in a row. He returned to UT as head coach after returning stateside from the Panama Canal Zone.
The 1938 Neyland team went undefeated and was proclaimed national champion by several minor media outlets. His 1939 squad was remembered as the last college football team to go unscored on a full regular season, shutting down every opponent; his team was then shut out by USC in the Rose Bowl. The Vols went from November 5, 1938 to December 9, 1939, a series of shutouts and seven quarters in a row, which never been seriously endangered. In 1940, Neyland had their second undefeated regular season.
In 1941, he was called back to military service for the second time. Neyland was first appointed head coach of an Eastern All-Army team that was competing against National Football League clubs in fall 1942 to raise funds for the Army Emergency Relief Fund. The Eastern All-Army played three games, defeating the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, but losing to the defending NFL champion Chicago Bears. The funds were raised $241,392.29 by the Western All-Army squad, led by Duke University's Wallace Wade.
Neyland served in the China-Burma-India Theater, supervising the movement of materials through monsoons and across the Himalayas to the troops commanded by General "Vinegar" Joe Stillwell in World War II. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit throughout his military service, as well as being a member of the Order of the British Empire.
In 1946, he resigned from military service as a brigadier general, and later returned to the Vols as coach through 1952. Many believed the General had lost his touch as more squads moved toward the "T formation" and Neyland began operating the single wing, despite producing poor teams in the late forties. Neyland was vindicated, though he had a fruitful career. His 1950 team was named national champion by several major media outlets, while his 1951 team won the school's first uncontested national championship, but the Volunteers' first season ended in first place in either the AP or UPI poll. He served as the university's athletic director until his death in New Orleans on March 28, 1962.
Neyland unveiled plans for a major upgrade and renovation of the Vols' home stadium, Shields-Watkins Field, just short of his death. In 1925, Shields-Watkins Field held only 3,200 people, barely a fraction of Vanderbilt's Dudley Field's capacity. The stadium's capacity had soared to over 46,000 seats, an increase of over 14 percent under his watch, the Vols' national prominence had increased under his tenure. The stadium in Neyland was renamed in his honor prior to the 1962 season, and the plans he made were so far ahead of their time that they have been used as the basis for every major expansion since then.