Johnny Vaught

Johnny Vaught

John Howard Vaught (May 6, 1909 – February 3, 2006) was an American college football coach at the University of Mississippi from 1947 to 1970 and again in 1973. Born in Olney, Texas, he graduated as valedictorian from Polytechnic High School in Fort Worth and attended Texas Christian University, where he was an honor student and was named All-American. After serving in World War II as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy, he took a job as an assistant coach at Ole Miss in 1946, and was named head coach a year later. After winning the university's first conference title in his initial 1947 season, he led the Rebels to additional Southeastern Conference titles in 1954, 1955, 1960, 1962 and 1963. Three of his teams, in 1959, 1960, and 1962, won shares of the national championship. His 1960 team received the Grantland Rice trophy from the FWAA. He took Ole Miss to 18 bowl games, winning 10 times including five victories in the Sugar Bowl. Only two coaches held a winning record against Vaught, one being Paul "Bear" Bryant, with a record of 4 wins, 3 losses, and 1 tie against Vaught, and the other being General Robert Neyland holding a 3 win to two loss advantage. Vaught's overall record at Ole Miss was 190 wins 61 losses and 12 ties. When Vaught was named Ole Miss head coach, the university ranked 9th in all-time Southeastern Conference football standings. When he retired in 1970, Ole Miss had moved up to third. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1979. In 1982, Ole Miss revised the name of its football stadium from Hemingway Stadium to Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. In early 2006 Vaught died at the age of 96 in Oxford, Mississippi.

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* [http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=50062 College Football Hall of Fame]
* [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060204/ap_on_sp_co_ne/fbc_obit_vaught_1 AP obituary]


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