Ellis Pruitt "Dumpy" Hagler (May 2, 1908 – September 21, 1990) was an American college football player and coach. He also coached

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

. He played and coached football under

Wallace Wade William Wallace Wade (June 15, 1892 – October 7, 1986) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the University of Alabama fro ...

. Hagler was president of the NCAA Golf Coaches Association, chairman of the Southern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference Golf Committees, and a member of the NCAA All-America selection committee.

University of Alabama

Hagler was a prominent guard for

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teams of the

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. He was selected All-Southern in 1928.

Duke

Football

He followed his coach Wade and fellow assistant Herschel Caldwell to Duke University as an assistant and line coach for the

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teams.

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interrupted Wade's tenure, and Hagler continued as an assistant under

Eddie Cameron Edmund McCullough Cameron (April 22, 1902 – November 25, 1988) was an American football and basketball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head basketball coach at Washington and Lee University for one season ...

. His most famous unit was the 1938 front seven, who were nicknamed the "Iron Dukes." They went through the entire regular season without allowing a single score. Hagler's trophy received for an appearance in the

1942 Rose Bowl The 1942 Rose Bowl was the 28th edition of the college football bowl game, played on Thursday, January 1, 1942. Originally scheduled for the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, it was moved to Durham, North Carolina, due to fears about an atta ...

, the only one played outside of

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, was found in the trash and resides at the

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Golf

Hagler produced 18 conference champions as a golf coach, coaching from 1933 to 1973.

References

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