Preston Vaughn Overall | |
Birth Date: | 5 June 1897 |
Birth Place: | Murfreesboro, Tennessee, U.S. |
Death Place: | Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | 1917 |
Player Team2: | Middle Tennessee State Normal |
Player Years3: | 1921 |
Player Team3: | Vanderbilt |
Player Positions: | Guard, tackle |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1923–1946 |
Coach Team2: | Tennessee Poly/Tech |
Coach Years3: | 1952–1953 |
Coach Team3: | Tennessee Tech |
Coach Sport4: | Basketball |
Coach Years5: | 1924–1947 |
Coach Team5: | Tennessee Poly/Tech |
Overall Record: | 97–96–18 (football) 170–151–1 (basketball) |
Bowl Record: | 0–1 |
Championships: | Football 2 OVC (1952–1953) |
Preston Vaughn "Putty" Overall (June 5, 1897 – January 1, 1974) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head coach of football, baseball, and basketball at Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, now known as Tennessee Tech. He came out of retirement in 1952 and coached Tech's football team, posting a 9–1 regular season record plus an invitation to the 1953 Tangerine Bowl. Overall played football at Middle Tennessee State, where he was captain of the 1917 team, as well as one year with Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores, in 1921. The First Fifty Years: A History of Middle Tennessee State College tells us "During his Murfreesboro days, "Putty Overall" was a hulking giant of two hundred and seventy-five pounds who required custom-made uniforms."[1] He was honored in 1961 as a distinguished alumnus of Middle Tennessee State University.[1] In 1966, he was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.[2]
Overall died on January 1, 1974, at a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee.[3]