The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-17
DANIEL 1. M 'GUG|N, VANDY'SCOACH,|S IS
 MAN OF MANY SIDES
Is a Lawyer, Speculator, as Well as Athletic Instruct or-His Work as Van
 derbilt Has Been
 Highly Successful
By PAUL TREANoR

Nashville October 16-tSpcciaL)-Daa McGugin. football coach. is known all over the south and west and even in the more or less benighted east. Daniel l.. McGugin, attorney -at-law, prominent cit izen of Nashville. and prime mover in some of the largest business enterprises in the entire south, is not so well known There was a time, in 1904. when new coach came to Vanderbilt That was the last new one that cane. Tor he has been there ever since. He came out of the west, whereas Vanderbilt coaches had been coming form the east He VAS young and just out of college. He knew no one in Nashville. ana the south had never heard of him to any extent EYenF the spelling of his name was sort of q stumbling block to the sporting writers.
 In 1903 Vanderbilt had had fairly good average team. 1t had beaten Se- vance by one scratch touch down. but had lost to Cumberland in the first game of the season and was hopelessly tied up with three other teams for the chant- pionship at the end.
 McGugin on the Scene Before the season of 1904 was half gone the men that journeyed up to Nashville to play Vanderbilt went home with strange stories of a race of long, rangy men that moved with terrible swiftness about their work of piling up scores. That was where McGugin had come in.
 From that day to this AlcGugin has been known of all southern rootball, but even yet the football followers know very lit. ,i. Of His history Is brief but crowded with the things he has done lie was born in Tingley, la, thirty-three years ago. He received his literary education at Drake university, Des Moines, la, and inciden- tally took up his football education He played on the Drake team two years and made a reputation as a linesman that extended over the middle west
 A Law Student His law course was taken at the great Michigan law school, and there, under Hurry Up Yost, he received the finish ing touches on his football training as well as his legal learning. He played two years on the great Michigan teams of 1901 and 1902, and in 1903, being then in his senior year at law school and hay ing played out his allotted span of colle- 
 Yost develop that team.
 In 1904 he came south spending the foot-, ball season in Nashville and the rest of the year in Detroit, where he practiced law. More and more hls interests became southern. however and especially his in- terest in the Nashville girl who after ward became Mrs. McGugin Finally. two years after coming to Vanderbilt he signed up with Vanderbilt as athletic di- rector for the entire year, and in addi- ton to teaching football took on the work of teaching class in constitutional law. Coach McGugin is also Professor Me- Gugin.
 Locates in Nashville
 He opened a law office in Nashville, and unlike some lawyers who open of- fees, also began to practice. Nashville people found that he knew law and could practice it just as he knew football and could teach 1t. He not only became prominent in the legal world of Nashville, but became interested In the project for the development of Tennessees enormous water power. He was associated in this with Fielding Yost. his old football in- structor, who, by the way, is now his brother-in-law AS well. and between them they succeeded in organizing the Tennes- zee Power company, a s20,000,0o0 corpora ton which Is running transmission lines from three great plants on the Ocoeo river in east Tennessee and the Great Falls of the caney fork to towns all over