Dana X . Bible Dana Xenophon Bible ( October 8 , 1891 – January 19 , 1980 ) was an American football player , coach of football , basketball , and baseball , and college athletics administrator . He served as the head football coach at Mississippi College ( 1913 – 1915 ) , Louisiana State University ( 1916 ) , Texas A & M University ( 1917 , 1919 – 1928 ) , the University of Nebraska ( 1929 – 1936 ) , and the University of Texas ( 1937 – 1946 ) , compiling a career college football record of 198 – 72 – 23 . Bible was also the head basketball coach at Texas A & M from 1920 to 1927 and the head baseball coach there from 1920 to 1921 . In addition , he was the athletic director at Nebraska from 1932 to 1936 . Bible was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951 . Early life . Bible was born in Jefferson City , Tennessee . He graduated from Jefferson City High School in 1908 and received a B . A . degree from Carson – Newman College in 1912 . Bible played football while in college and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity , Iota chapter . Career . Bible began his coaching career at Brandon Prep School in Shelbyville , Tennessee . Mississippi College recruited him to coach in 1912 , and he was recruited to coach for Texas A & M University in 1916 . In his college football coaching career , Bible compiled a record of 198 – 72 – 23 . His teams had winning records in thirty of the thirty - three seasons he coached . Bible twice won ten games in a season . Bible also coached baseball and basketball at Texas A & M . During his hiatus from Texas A & M in 1918 , Bible served as pilot in World War I . Bible ' s 1919 Texas A & M Aggies football team , which was undefeated , untied , and outscored its opposition 275 – 0 , was retroactively named a national champion by the Billingsley Report and the National Championship Foundation . In ten seasons at Texas , Bible brought the Longhorns football program to national prominence , winning three Southwest Conference championships , making three appearances at the Cotton Bowl Classic ( two victorious ) , and placing in the final AP Poll rankings five times . While at Texas , University of Chicago coach Clark Shaughnessy contacted Bible to organize a clinic on the T formation . Along with Frank Leahy of Notre Dame , they helped create the T formation revolution . Bible was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 , the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 1959 and the Longhorn Hall of Honor in 1960 . He was the 1954 recipient of the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award . Bible served on the National Collegiate Football Rules Committee for twenty - five years , and was president of the American Football Coaches Association . His book , " Championship Football " , was published in 1947 . Family . Bible was the son of Jonathan David Bible ( October 9 , 1863 in Cocke County , Tennessee – November 23 , 1942 ) and Cleopatra I . Willis ( October 19 , 1870 – January 25 , 1954 ) . The couple married on June 20 , 1889 . Jonathan was a college professor at Carson – Newman College in Jefferson City , Tennessee , he could quote biblical scripture and was a Greek and Latin scholar . Bible married Rowena Rhodes on December 19 , 1923 . They had two children , William and Barbara . Rowena died in 1942 . Dana later married Agnes Stacy in 1944 and they were divorced in 1950 . He married Dorothy Gilstrap on February 2 , 1952 . Death . Bible died on January 19 , 1980 , and is interred at Austin Memorial Park Cemetery in Austin , Texas .