Shirley Majors

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Template other Shirley Inman Majors (May 7, 1913 – April 5, 1981) was an American football and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Huntland High School in Franklin County, Tennessee from 1949 to 1956 and at Sewanee: The University of the South from 1957 to 1977. At Sewanee, he compiled a record of 93–74–5. His total of 93 wins is the most of any head coach in the history of the Sewanee Tigers football program.

Majors was the patriarch of a football family. His sons included two All-Americans in football at the University of Tennessee, Bobby and Johnny, Bill, who was an assistant at Tennessee until his death in an auto accident in 1965, Larry, who played for Sewanee at wingback, and Joe, who played at Florida State University and with the Houston Oilers of the National Football League. The Majors athletes were inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame as a family in 1966.

Majors died on April 5, 1981, after collapsing at the Meadowbrook Game Farm near Westmoreland, Tennessee.

Head coaching record

College football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
Sewanee Tigers (Independent) (1957–1961)
1957	Sewanee	5–2–1
1958	Sewanee	8–0
1959	Sewanee	4–3–1
1960	Sewanee	4–3–1
1961	Sewanee	5–2–1
Sewanee Tigers (Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1962–1977)
1962	Sewanee	4–3–1	2–1	2nd
1963	Sewanee	8–0	4–0	1st
1964	Sewanee	8–1	3–1	T–1st
1965	Sewanee	7–1	4–0	1st
1966	Sewanee	2–6	1–3	T–4th
1967	Sewanee	5–3	3–1	1st
1968	Sewanee	4–4	2–2	T–3rd
1969	Sewanee	2–6	2–2	T–2nd
1970	Sewanee	2–6	1–3	T–4th
1971	Sewanee	2–6	1–3	T–4th
1972	Sewanee	3–5	1–3	T–3rd
1973	Sewanee	5–3	1–1	2nd
1974	Sewanee	2–6	2–2	T–3rd
1975	Sewanee	6–3	4–0	T–1st
1976	Sewanee	5–4	4–0	1st
1977	Sewanee	2–6	1–3	T—3rd
Sewanee:		93–74–5	36–25
Total:		93–74–5
National championship         Conference title         Conference division title or championship game berth

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