Dana X. Bible, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dana X. Bible

American college football coach, college baseball coach, college basketball coach, college athletics administrator

Date of Birth: 08-Oct-1891

Place of Birth: Jefferson City, Tennessee, United States

Date of Death: 19-Jan-1980

Profession: basketball coach, American football player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Dana Xenophon Bible (October 8, 1891 – January 19, 1980) was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator.
He served as the head football coach at Mississippi College (1913–1915), Louisiana State University (1916), Texas A&M University (1917, 1919–1928), the University of Nebraska (1929–1936), and the University of Texas (1937–1946), compiling a career college football record of 198–72–23.
Bible was also the head basketball coach at Texas A&M from 1920 to 1927 and the head baseball coach there from 1920 to 1921.
In addition, he was the athletic director at Nebraska from 1932 to 1936 and at Texas from 1937 to 1956.
Bible was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951.