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john emmett `` boozer '' pitts , sr. was an american football player and coach .
he served as the head football coach at auburn university from 1923 to 1924 and again for the final seven games of the 1927 season , compiling a career record of 7 -- 11 -- 6 .
he was also a professor of mathematics at auburn in the 1930s .
an all-southern center , he was a member of an all-time auburn tigers football team selected in 1935 , as well as coach donahue 's all-time auburn team .
one writer claims `` auburn had a lot of great football teams , but there may not have been one greater than the 1913 -- 1914 team . ''
pitts later served as a colonel in the united states army during world war ii .
in late 1958 , he had his larynx removed during surgery for cancer .
one of his sons , john e. pitts , jr. was a brigadier general in the united states air force .
