death_date coach_team birth_date death_place player_positions player_years coach_sport cfbdwid bowl_record image name caption cfbhof_year birth_place sport cfbhof_id championships coach_years overall_record player_sport article_title player_team
14 november 1974 missouri 's -lrb- ca -rrb- los angeles dons new york yanks -lrb- dallas texans -lrb- nfl -rrb- st. mary 's -lrb- ca assistant -rrb- -rrb- missouri purdue washington saint mary 5 december 1892 honolulu , hawaii quarterback 1915 -- 1917 football basketball 1862 0 -- 3 james phelan -lrb- american football -rrb- . jpg james phelan phelan from 1927 purdue yearbook 1973 sacramento , california football , basketball 30110 football -lrb- 1936 -rrb- 1 big ten -lrb- 1929 -rrb- 1 pcc 1919 1941 1942 -- 1947 1948 -- 1949 1951 1952 1943 1920 -- 1945 -- 1921 1922 -- 1929 1930 -- 137 12 -- 26 -lrb- aafc/nfl -rrb- 10 -- 11 -lrb- -- college basketball -rrb- 87 -- 14 -lrb- college football -rrb- football james phelan -lrb- american football -rrb-
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james phelan -lrb- american football -rrb-

james michael `` jimmy '' phelan -lrb- december 5 , 1892 -- november 14 , 1974 -rrb- was an american football player and coach of football and basketball .
he served as the head football coach at the university of missouri -lrb- 1920 -- 1921 -rrb- , purdue university -lrb- 1922 -- 1929 -rrb- , the university of washington -lrb- 1930 -- 1941 -rrb- , and saint mary 's college of california -lrb- 1942 -- 1947 -rrb- , compiling a career college football record of 137 -- 87 -- 14 .
phelan also coached the los angeles dons of the all-america football conference -lrb- aafc -rrb- from 1948 to 1949 and the dallas texans of the national football league -lrb- nfl -rrb- in 1952 , tallying a professional football coaching record of 12 -- 26 .
in addition , he was the head basketball coach at saint mary 's for two seasons during world war ii -lrb- 1943 -- 1945 -rrb- , where he amassed a record 10 -- 11 .
phelan played football as a quarterback at the university of notre dame from 1915 to 1917 .
he was inducted into the college football hall of fame as a coach in 1973 .
