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Early Coaches

The information for several years regarding early Georgia Tech coaches is inaccurate. I think the reason is that the info is pulled from online databases (such as the College Football Warehouse), which takes its facts from the Georgia Tech's media guide. However, the media guide has been found to be inaccurate in many cases regarding early coaches and is contradicted by contemporary newspaper articles in the Atlanta Journal Constitution as well as alumni letters. I frankly trust the newspaper much more than the media guide that was written 90-100 years later. A brief summary:

Year	Current	Correct	Notes	Source
1892	Ernest West	Ernest West	No discrepancy found	Griffin (1934)
1893	Spain & Wood	Leonard Wood	Spain only raised money for team	Mealor (1933)
1894	Spain & Wood	No coach	No record Wood on team; Spain resigned as prof before season to become an actor	Griffin (1934); AJC September 19, 1894
1895	No team	No team	No discrepancy found	--
1896	No coach	J. B. Wood	Professor at Tech	AJC September 26, 1896
1897	No coach	J. B. Wood	Professor at Georgia Tech	AJC October 11, 1897; Griffin (1934); Ferris (1971)
1898	Rufus Nalley	No coach	No record of Nalley until 1899	--
1899	H. T. Collier	Rufus "Cow" Nalley	Collier is Tulane coach in 1899	Griffin (1934), AJC September 18, 1899
1900	No coach	Harris Collier	Sometimes "Mr. Collier" or "H. T. Collier"	AJC September 19, 1900
1901	Cyrus Strickler	John McKee	No record Strickler ever involved with program	AJC November 25, 1901
1902	John McKee	George Andree	AJC has picture and long bio	AJC September 27 and October 7, 1902
1903	No coach	Oliver Huie	Former Tech player	AJC October 4, 1903

PJLazy (talk) 08:40, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@PJLazy: Thank you very much for this PJ. I try to research old southern football and was dumbfounded by the discrepancy between the media guide and the wiki. Andree and Collier are some big names for them to miss. Cake (talk) 11:15, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Jon Tenuta

If Mac McWhorter is included in the template, even though he only coached for one game, then shouldn't Jon Tenuta also be included in the navbox? Tenuta was the interim coach for last year's bowl game in Boise, which is precisely what McWhorter did for the Seattle Bowl. _-Z-_ (talk) 18:07, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]