Billy J. Murphy
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Billy Jack "Spook" Murphy was head football
coach at the University of Memphis
from 1958 to 1971 and earned a 91-44-1 record. Murphy's 1963 team was the school's first undefeated team in twenty-five years, and Murphy was named national coach of the year.
He is on the 2007 College Football Hall of Fame ballot
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American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
coach at the University of Memphis
University of Memphis
The University of Memphis is an American public research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee and is the flagship public research university of the Tennessee Board of Regents system....
from 1958 to 1971 and earned a 91-44-1 record. Murphy's 1963 team was the school's first undefeated team in twenty-five years, and Murphy was named national coach of the year.
He is on the 2007 College Football Hall of Fame ballot
2007 College Football Hall of Fame ballot
The 2007 College Football Hall of Fame ballot consisted of 75 players and 8 coaches who were voted on by more than twelve-thousand voters for inclusion into the College Football Hall of Fame...
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