player_team death_place death_date coach_years player_positions overall_record player_years coach_team coach_sport cfbdwid sport birth_date player_sport article_title name
notre dame crawfordsville , indiana 18 february 1969 1919 1940 & ndash ; 1945 1919 & ndash ; fullback 115 -lrb- football -rrb- 195 & ndash ; 175 -lrb- basketball & -rrb- ndash ; 85 & ndash ; 24 1908 -- 1909 wabash wabash football basketball 5322 football , basketball 29 december 1888 football robert e. vaughan
 robert e. vaughan
robert e. vaughan

robert e. `` pete '' vaughan -lrb- december 29 , 1888 -- february 18 , 1969 -rrb- was an american football player and coach of football and basketball .
he served was head football coach at wabash college for 27 seasons , from 1919 until 1945 .
his career coaching record at wabash was 115 wins , 85 losses , and 24 ties .
this ranks him first at wabash in total wins and 15th at wabash in winning percentage -lrb- .567 -rrb- in 1922 , he also coached wabash to the championship of the first national intercollegiate basketball tournament ever held .
vaughan attended crawfordsville high school and the university of notre dame .
he played college football alongside knute rockne , who became the head coach of the fighting irish .
