Preston Vaughn "Putty" Overall (June 5, 1897 – January 1, 1974) was an

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player and coach of football,

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, and

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. He served as the head coach of football, baseball, and basketball at Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, now known as

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. He came out of retirement in 1952 and coached Tech's football team, posting a 9–1 regular season record plus an invitation to the

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. Overall played football at Middle Tennessee State, where he was captain of the 1917 team, as well as one year with

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, in

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. ''The First Fifty Years: A History of Middle Tennessee State College'' tells us "During his

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days, "Putty Overall" was a hulking giant of two hundred and seventy-five pounds who required custom-made uniforms." He was honored in 1961 as a distinguished alumnus of

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. In 1966, he was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. Overall died on January 1, 1974, at a hospital in

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