death_date death_place coach_years birth_place overall_record coach_team cfbdwid sport birth_date article_title name
january 20 , 1936 tulsa , oklahoma 1908 1914 & ndash ; 1916 c. 1877 24 & ndash ; 6 & ndash ; 1 kendall kendall 1483 football chetopa , kansas sam p. mcbirney
 sam p. mcbirney
sam p. mcbirney

sam p. mcbirney -lrb- c. 1877 -- january 20 , 1936 -rrb- was an irish-american football coach and banker .
he was the head football coach for the tulsa golden hurricane football team in 1908 and from 1914 to 1916 .
his undefeated 1916 team outscored opponents 566 to 40 to become the highest scoring college football team during the 1916 college football season .
he has been called `` one of the fathers of football in oklahoma . ''
mcbirney was also a founder and vice president of tulsa 's bank of commerce from 1904 until his death in 1936 .
