Phil C
01-18-2006, 12:45 PM
He will never be talked about when UT great football coaches such as Darrell Royal, Mack Brown or Dana X. Bible are mentioned but there was a former Notre Dame player that coached at UT. His name was Jack Chevigny who coached at UT between 1934 to 1937. Unfortunately his record was a losing one at 13-14-2. He was replaced by Dana X. Bible who had great teams at UT. Had he had the money and resouces at UT that they gave Coach Bible it might have been different because his first record at UT was 7-2-1 in 1934. Legend has it that Coach Chevigny when he played for Notre Dame in 1928 and scored the winning td in a tough game against army was the one who said "This is one for the Gipper." One thing he did was help get nation wide recognition that football is played well in Texas. On Oct. 6, 1934 he took his Texas team to Notre Dame to play the Irish. UT was supposed to lose bad but pulled the big upset 7 to 6. That same day in the same state of Indiana Rice upset Purdue 14 to 0. Those games proved the the nation that Texas was a football state to be taken seriously.
When he was fired Chevigny went to work in Chicago and when World War 2 broke out he became a Marine officer. He gave his life for his country at the Battle of Iwo Jima.
He may not have left UT with a winning record but he helped put UT and Texas football on the front pages of sports news where it has been since and then made the ultimate sacrifice so that we could be free.
When he was fired Chevigny went to work in Chicago and when World War 2 broke out he became a Marine officer. He gave his life for his country at the Battle of Iwo Jima.
He may not have left UT with a winning record but he helped put UT and Texas football on the front pages of sports news where it has been since and then made the ultimate sacrifice so that we could be free.