Jim Tatum
James Moore "
Big Jim"
Tatum (July 22, 1913 – July 23, 1959) was an American
college football and
college baseball player and coach. Tatum served as the head football coach at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1942, 1956–1958), the
University of Oklahoma (1946), and the
University of Maryland, College Park (1947–1955), compiling a career college football head coaching record of 100–35–7. His
1953 Maryland team won a
national title. As a head coach, he employed the
split-T formation with great success, a system he had learned as an assistant under
Don Faurot at the
Iowa Pre-Flight School during
World War II. Tatum was also the head baseball coach at
Cornell University from 1937 to 1939, tallying a mark of 20–40–1. Tatum's career was cut short by his untimely death in 1959. He was inducted into the
College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1984.
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