Samuel Cutter Costen (May 18, 1882 – January 21, 1955) was an

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player and coach. Costen was a

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for

Dan McGugin Daniel Earle McGugin (July 29, 1879 – January 23, 1936) was an American football player and coach, as well as a lawyer. He served as the head football coach at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1904 to 1917 and again from ...

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. As a player, he weighed some 150 pounds. He was the third head football at

The Citadel The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, commonly known simply as The Citadel, is a public senior military college in Charleston, South Carolina. Established in 1842, it is one of six senior military colleges in the United States. ...

, serving two seasons, from 1909 to 1910, and compiling a record of 7–7–2. He also coached in . Costen graduated from Vanderbilt in 1908 with an LL.B. degree. He was a member of

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. Costen was the first head football coach at

Blytheville High School Blytheville High School is a comprehensive public high school for students in grades nine through twelve located in Blytheville, Arkansas, United States. It is one of six public high schools in Mississippi County, Arkansas and the only high sch ...

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, leading the team from 1913 to 1919. He died on January 21, 1955, in

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, where he had lived in the 1930s.

Head coaching record

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