Boozer Pitts
Pitts pictured in The 1925 Glomerata, Auburn yearbook
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born | November 25, 1893 Pittsview, Alabama |
| Died | Error: Need valid death date (first date): year, month, day Auburn, Alabama |
| Playing career | |
| 1913–1914 | Auburn |
| Position(s) | Center |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1919–1922 | Auburn (assistant) |
| 1923–1924 | Auburn |
| 1925–1927 | Auburn (assistant) |
| 1927 | Auburn |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 7–11–6 |
| Statistics | |
John Emmett "Boozer" Pitts, Sr. (November 25, 1893 – February 10, 1971)[1] was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Auburn University from 1923 to 1924 and again for the final seven games of the 1927 season, compiling a career record of 7–11–6. He was also a professor of mathematics at Auburn in the 1930s.
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Playing career
A native of Pittsville, Pitts was a prominent center for coach Mike Donahue's Auburn Tigers football team in 1913 and 1914. He entered Auburn at the age of 15, having only read about football.[2] Pitts was selected All-Southern and was a member of an All-time Auburn Tigers football team selected in 1935,[3] as well as coach Donahue's all-time Auburn team.[4] One writer claims "Auburn had a lot of great football teams, but there may not have been one greater than the 1913–1914 team."[5]
Army
Pitts later served as a colonel in the United States Army during World War II. In late 1958, he had his larynx removed during surgery for cancer.[6] One of his sons, John E. Pitts, Jr. was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force.[6][7]
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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| Auburn Tigers (Southern Conference) (1923–1924) | |||||||||
| 1923 | Auburn | 3–3–3 | 0–1–3 | 14th | |||||
| 1924 | Auburn | 4–4–1 | 2–4–1 | 17th | |||||
| Auburn Tigers (Southern Conference) (1927) | |||||||||
| 1927 | Auburn | 0–4–2[n 1] | 0–4–1[n 1] | 22nd[n 1] | |||||
| Auburn: | 7–11–6 | 2–9–5 | |||||||
| Total: | 7–11–6 | ||||||||
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- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "He Can't Talk Or Eat Food, But 'Boozer' Writes Poems", The Morning Herald, Thursday, December 31, 1959, Hagerstown, Maryland
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