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| name = Alfred B. Miles |
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1888|10|29|mf=y}} |
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| birth_place = [[Murfreesboro, Tennessee]], U.S. |
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| sport = [[American football|Football]], [[basketball]], [[baseball]] |
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1962|3|18|1888|10|20|mf=y}} |
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| death_place = [[Nashville, Tennessee]], U.S. |
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| coach_team2 = [[Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders football|Middle Tennessee State Normal]] |
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'''Alfred Blackman Miles''' (October 29, 1888 – March 18, 1962) was an American [[biology]] and [[physiology]] professor and a [[American football|football]], [[basketball]], and [[baseball]] coach for [[Middle Tennessee State University]]. He was its second football coach (and first "officially recognized"),<ref name="Years"/> second baseball coach, and first basketball coach. |
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==Early years== |
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'''Alfred B. Miles''' was a [[biology]] and [[physiology]] professor and an [[American football]], [[basketball]], and [[baseball]] coach for [[Middle Tennessee State University]]. He was its second football coach, second baseball coach, and first basketball coach. The 1914 football season led by Miles was its first undefeated season.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TkY8cHA5CAAJ:https://goblueraiders.com/content.cfm/id/2079/print/.pdf+&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a|title = The Heritage of Champions|date = June 20, 2003|accessdate = September 4, 2014|website = GoBlueRaiders.com|publisher = |last = Stone|first = India}}</ref> |
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Alfred B. Miles was born on October 29, 1888, in [[Murfreesboro, Tennessee]], to Caswell Moore Miles and Eliza Howse Blackman. During [[World War I]], he joined the [[American Expeditionary Forces]] (AEF) where he served in the 216th Aero Squadron. After training at Kelly Field in Texas, the unit deployed to Europe. |
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==College football== |
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| ⚫ | ''The First Fifty Years: A History of Middle Tennessee State College '' recalls this story of [[Jess Neely]]'s days playing for [[Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football|Middle Tennessee State Normal]] and coach Miles: "Jess Neely, a brilliant [[Halfback (American football)|half-back]] and a handsome man on the campus, is remembered for his popularity among members of the opposite sex and for an incident that occurred just prior to a football game with [[Rhodes Lynx football|Southern Presbyterian]] in [[Clarksville, Tennessee|Clarksville]]. Miles had done an exceptionally good job in mentally preparing his team for the game. He climaxed the pre-game, locker-room exhortation with a soaring call for courage and deathless allegiance to "dear Ol' Normal." Neely was greatly affected by the words of his coach for he leaped to his feet and, roaring like an angry bull, led the team in a rush to the doorway opening to the field. He misjudged the extremely low entrance, and his head received the full impact of the strip of wall above the doorway. He was revived shortly before the [[Kickoff (gridiron football)|kickoff]], but he never quite knew where he was, frequently [[Huddle|huddling]] and aligning himself with the enemy."<ref>{{cite book|url=http://digital.mtsu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/mtsu1/id/1904/rec/4|title=The First Fifty Years: A History of Middle Tennessee State College|author=Homer Pittard|page=73}}</ref> |
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The 1914 football season led by Miles was its first undefeated season, with five straight victories after a tie with [[Cumberland University|Cumberland]].<ref name="Years">{{Cite web|url=http://digital.turn-page.com/t/44998/47/|title=100 Years of MTSU Football|accessdate=August 8, 2019|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140920005033/http://digital.turn-page.com/t/44998/47/|archive-date=September 20, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://goblueraiders.com/content.cfm/id/2079/print/.pdf |title=The Heritage of Champions |date=June 20, 2003 |accessdate=September 4, 2014 |website=GoBlueRaiders.com |last=Stone |first=India |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920145027/https://goblueraiders.com/content.cfm/id/2079/print/.pdf |archivedate=September 20, 2012 }}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | ''The First Fifty Years: A History of Middle Tennessee State College '' recalls this story of [[Jess Neely]]'s days playing for [[Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football|Middle Tennessee State Normal]] and coach Miles: "Jess Neely, a brilliant [[Halfback (American football)|half-back]] and a handsome man on the campus, is remembered for his popularity among members of the opposite sex and for an incident that occurred just prior to a football game with [[Rhodes Lynx football|Southern Presbyterian]] in [[Clarksville, Tennessee|Clarksville]]. Miles had done an exceptionally good job in mentally preparing his team for the game. He climaxed the pre-game, locker-room exhortation with a soaring call for courage and deathless allegiance to "dear Ol' Normal." Neely was greatly affected by the words of his coach for he leaped to his feet and, roaring like an angry bull, led the team in a rush to the doorway opening to the field. He misjudged the extremely low entrance, and his head received the full impact of the strip of wall above the doorway. He was revived shortly before the [[Kickoff (gridiron football)|kickoff]], but he never quite knew where he was, frequently [[Huddle|huddling]] and aligning himself with the enemy."<ref>{{cite book|url=http://digital.mtsu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/mtsu1/id/1904/rec/4|title=The First Fifty Years: A History of Middle Tennessee State College|author=Homer Pittard|page=73}}</ref> This was said to occur at a point near the 1917 season. |
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==Head coaching record== |
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===Football=== |
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| name = [[Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football|Middle Tennessee State Normal]] |
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| year = [[1913 college football season|1913]] |
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| name = Middle Tennessee State |
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<ref>{{cite book|url=http://issuu.com/goblueraiders/docs/2009_football_guide/169|title=2009 Middle Tennessee State Football Media Guide|page=167|publisher=Middle Tennessee Athletics}}</ref> |
<ref>{{cite book|url=http://issuu.com/goblueraiders/docs/2009_football_guide/169|title=2009 Middle Tennessee State Football Media Guide|page=167|publisher=Middle Tennessee Athletics}}</ref> |
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| name = [[Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders men's basketball|Middle Tennessee State Normal]] |
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| season = 1913–14 |
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| season = 1922–23 |
| season = 1922–23 |
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| name = Middle Tennessee State |
| name = Middle Tennessee State Normal |
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| overall = 11–1 |
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| overall = 13–1 |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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* {{Find a Grave|13394963}} |
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* {{CFBCR|1618|Alfred B. Miles}} |
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| NAME = Miles, Alfred B. |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = American football, basketball, and baseball coach |
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Latest revision as of 11:00, 13 July 2024
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| Biographical details | |
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| Born | October 29, 1888 Murfreesboro, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Died | March 18, 1962 (aged 73) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1913–1916 | Middle Tennessee State Normal |
| 1919–1923 | Middle Tennessee State Normal |
| Basketball | |
| 1913–1924 | Middle Tennessee State Normal |
| Baseball | |
| 1913–1924 | Middle Tennessee State Normal |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 36–14–4 (football) 27–6 (basketball) |
Alfred Blackman Miles (October 29, 1888 – March 18, 1962) was an American biology and physiology professor and a football, basketball, and baseball coach for Middle Tennessee State University. He was its second football coach (and first "officially recognized"),[1] second baseball coach, and first basketball coach.
Early years
[edit]Alfred B. Miles was born on October 29, 1888, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to Caswell Moore Miles and Eliza Howse Blackman. During World War I, he joined the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) where he served in the 216th Aero Squadron. After training at Kelly Field in Texas, the unit deployed to Europe.
College football
[edit]The 1914 football season led by Miles was its first undefeated season, with five straight victories after a tie with Cumberland.[1][2]
The First Fifty Years: A History of Middle Tennessee State College recalls this story of Jess Neely's days playing for Middle Tennessee State Normal and coach Miles: "Jess Neely, a brilliant half-back and a handsome man on the campus, is remembered for his popularity among members of the opposite sex and for an incident that occurred just prior to a football game with Southern Presbyterian in Clarksville. Miles had done an exceptionally good job in mentally preparing his team for the game. He climaxed the pre-game, locker-room exhortation with a soaring call for courage and deathless allegiance to "dear Ol' Normal." Neely was greatly affected by the words of his coach for he leaped to his feet and, roaring like an angry bull, led the team in a rush to the doorway opening to the field. He misjudged the extremely low entrance, and his head received the full impact of the strip of wall above the doorway. He was revived shortly before the kickoff, but he never quite knew where he was, frequently huddling and aligning himself with the enemy."[3] This was said to occur at a point near the 1917 season.
Head coaching record
[edit]Football
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| Middle Tennessee State Normal (Independent) (1913–1916) | |||||||||
| 1913 | Middle Tennessee State Normal | 5–1–1 | |||||||
| 1914 | Middle Tennessee State Normal | 5–0–1 | |||||||
| 1915 | Middle Tennessee State Normal | 3–3–1 | |||||||
| 1916 | Middle Tennessee State Normal | 5–2 | |||||||
| Middle Tennessee State Normal (Independent) (1919–1923) | |||||||||
| 1919 | Middle Tennessee State Normal | 6–0 | |||||||
| 1920 | Middle Tennessee State Normal | 4–1 | |||||||
| 1921 | Middle Tennessee State Normal | 3–2–1 | |||||||
| 1922 | Middle Tennessee State Normal | 2–6 | |||||||
| 1923 | Middle Tennessee State Normal | 3–1 | |||||||
| Middle Tennessee State Normal: | 36–14–4 | ||||||||
| Total: | 36–14–4 | ||||||||
Basketball
[edit]| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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| Middle Tennessee State Normal (Independent) (1913–1915) | |||||||||
| 1913–14 | Middle Tennessee State Normal | 1–2 | |||||||
| 1914–15 | Middle Tennessee State Normal | 2–2 | |||||||
| Middle Tennessee State Normal (Independent) (1922–1924) | |||||||||
| 1922–23 | Middle Tennessee State Normal | 11–1 | |||||||
| 1923–24 | Middle Tennessee State Normal | 13–1 | |||||||
| Middle Tennessee State Normal: | 27–6 | ||||||||
| Total: | 27–6 | ||||||||
References
[edit]- ^ a b "100 Years of MTSU Football". Archived from the original on September 20, 2014. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
- ^ Stone, India (June 20, 2003). "The Heritage of Champions" (PDF). GoBlueRaiders.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 20, 2012. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
- ^ Homer Pittard. The First Fifty Years: A History of Middle Tennessee State College. p. 73.
- ^ 2009 Middle Tennessee State Football Media Guide. Middle Tennessee Athletics. p. 167.
External links
[edit]Categories:
- 1888 births
- 1962 deaths
- Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders baseball coaches
- Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football coaches
- Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders men's basketball coaches
- Middle Tennessee State University faculty
- People from Murfreesboro, Tennessee
- Coaches of American football from Tennessee
- Baseball coaches from Tennessee
- Basketball coaches from Tennessee