player_team death_date death_place coach_years birth_place player_positions overall_record player_years coach_team cfbdwid sport birth_date article_title name
north carolina 22 april 1950 morganton , north carolina 1899 & ndash ; 1900 1901 1901 raleigh , north carolina tackle 5 & ndash ; 7 & ndash ; 3 1897-1898 north assistant -rrb- carolina a & m georgia tech georgia -lrb- 1555 football july 26 , 1877 john mckee -lrb- american football -rrb-
 john mckee
john mckee -lrb- american football -rrb-

john s. mckee -lrb- july 26 , 1877 -- april 22 , 1950 -rrb- was an american football coach and a physician .
he served as the head football coach at north carolina a&m -lrb- now north carolina state -rrb- and georgia tech .
mckee was born and grew up in raleigh , north carolina , the son of dr. james mckee and mildred sasser mckee .
he received his secondary education at the raleigh male academy .
mckee enrolled at the university of north carolina and played on the north carolina football team from 1897-1898 as tackle .
while at the school , he was also a member of the zeta psi fraternity .
after graduation , mckee coached at north carolina a&m from 1899 to 1900 to a record 1 -- 7 -- 2 .
in 1901 , he coached at georgia tech and did much better , finishing with a record of 4 -- 0 -- 1 .
after georgia tech 's season ended , mckee joined the georgia football staff in their preparation against auburn .
incidentally , mckee sued the georgia institute of technology in june 1902 for breach of contract for the amount of $ 500 .
following his football coaching career , he received a medical degree from the university of maryland in 1907 , and entered into medical practice in his hometown of raleigh .
during world war i , mckee achieved the rank of major in the american expeditionary forces as a field surgeon with the 1st gas regiment .
mckee returned to raleigh after the war where he was the city physician until 1948 .
`` dr. john '' was very well known throughout the state of north carolina for his gruff but compassionate sense of humor and his propensity to curse .
he loved to drive a t-model ford automobile .
when ford discontinued the car , mckee refused to drive any longer despite the fact he was issued a new buick every year by the raleigh city fathers , and police officers and firemen took him on his rounds every morning .
mckee died in morganton , north carolina on april 22 , 1950 , at the home of his son , dr. john s. mckee iii , superintendent of the broughton state mental hospital .
