Aubrey Devine
| Sport(s) | Football, basketball, track and field |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
November 21, 1897 Des Moines, Iowa |
| Died | December 15, 1981 (aged 84) San Diego, California |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1919–1921 | Iowa |
| Basketball | |
| 1919–1922 | Iowa |
| Track and field | |
| 1919–1922 | Iowa |
| Position(s) | Quarterback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1923–1924 | Denver (backfield) |
| 1925–1936 | USC (assistant) |
| Basketball | |
| 1923–1925 | Denver |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 9–14 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Awards | |
| Football Consensus All-American (1921) 3× First-team All-Big Ten Conference (1919–1921) All-Time Hawkeye Team Iowa Sports Hall of Fame |
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College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1973 (profile) |
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Aubrey Alvin "Aub" Devine (November 21, 1897 – December 15, 1981) was an American football and basketball player, coach, and lawyer. He was the quarterback for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes football team from 1919 to 1921. He was selected as a first-team All-Big Ten Conference player all three years at Iowa and was the consensus All-American quarterback in 1921. Devine served as the head basketball coach at the University of Denver for two seasons, from 1923 to 1925. He later worked as an assistant football coach under Howard Jones at the University of Southern California (USC). Devine was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1973.
Devine was born in 1897 in Des Moines, Iowa. His father, William Samuel Devine, was an Iowa native, and his mother, Elizabeth Victoria Foreman, was a Missouri native. At the time of the 1900 United States Census, Devine's father was employed as a teamster living in Des Moines, and Aubrey was the youngest among the nine children of William and Elizabeth. By 1910, Devine's family had moved to New Hope Township in Union County, Iowa, where his father was employed as a farmer. The family later returned to Des Moines where Devine's father again worked as a teamster.
Devine attended West High School in Des Moines, where he and older brother Glenn were tenors in the glee club. He and brother, Glenn, also played for the school's football, basketball and track teams. In track, Devine was a hurdler, weights man, and pole vaulter. The Devine brothers led the West High School football team to an undefeated championship season in 1916. Devine's education was interrupted in 1917 by "farm" service during World War I. He also served in the United States Marine Corps for a year during the war.
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