caption player_team death_date death_place coach_years player_positions player_years coach_team sport birth_date image article_title name
brackett from '' 1933 volunteer '' tennessee november 14 , 1970 -lrb- aged 59 -rrb- huntington , west virginia 1934 1945 1946 -- 1949 1950 -- 1962 1967 1968 -- -- 1970 1936 1937 -- 1939 1940 1941 -- quarterback 1931 -- 1933 tennessee hampden -- sydney -lrb- assistant -rrb- tennessee -lrb- assistant -rrb- -lrb- arkansas -lrb- ends -rrb- ucla -lrb- backfield -rrb- orlando panthers assistant -lrb- assistant -rrb- marshall -lrb- k/freshman coord . -rrb- -rrb- the citadel -lrb- assistant -rrb- football january 2 , 1911 herbert brackett 1932.png deke brackett
 deke brackett
deke brackett

herbert benjamin `` deke '' brackett -lrb- january 2 , 1911 - november 14 , 1970 -rrb- was a college football player and coach .
brackett played quarterback at tennessee from 1931 to 1933 .
he played in the same backfield as halfback beattie feathers , future college football hall of famer and nfl all-decade team member .
after graduating , brackett remained at tennessee as an assistant .
after stints at the citadel and hampden-sydney , he returned to tennessee as an assistant to new head coach john barnhill .
brackett followed barnhill to arkansas in 1946 .
following barnhill 's resignation after the 1949 season , brackett moved to ucla where he was the bruins ' backfield coach until 1962 .
brackett returned to coaching as an assistant with the orlando panthers of the continental football league .
he returned to college football in 1968 when his head coach with the panthers , perry moss hired him to work on his staff at marshall university .
brackett died in the 1970 plane crash that killed most of the marshall football team and coaching staff and several team boosters .
brackett was supposed to go on a recruiting trip with fellow assistant william `` red '' dawson , however graduate assistant gail parker gave brackett his seat and went on the recruiting trip instead .
