Dana X. Bible
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Bible from the 1935 Cornhusker
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| Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
October 8, 1891 Jefferson City, Tennessee |
| Died | January 19, 1980 (aged 88) Austin, Texas |
| Playing career | |
| 1910s | Carson–Newman |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1913–1915 | Mississippi College |
| 1916 | LSU |
| 1917 | Texas A&M |
| 1919–1928 | Texas A&M |
| 1929–1936 | Nebraska |
| 1937–1946 | Texas |
| Basketball | |
| 1920–1927 | Texas A&M |
| Baseball | |
| 1920–1921 | Texas A&M |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1932–1936 | Nebraska |
| 1937–1956 | Texas |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 198–72–23 (football) 90–47 (basketball) 29–10–1 (baseball) |
| Bowls | 3–0–1 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Football 8 SWC (1917, 1919, 1921, 1925, 1927, 1942–1943, 1945) 6 Big Six (1929, 1931–1933, 1935–1936) |
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| Awards | |
| Amos Alonzo Stagg Award (1954) | |
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College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1951 (profile) |
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Dana Xenophon Bible (October 8, 1891 – January 19, 1980) was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Mississippi College (1913–1915), Louisiana State University (1916), Texas A&M University (1917, 1919–1928), the University of Nebraska (1929–1936), and the University of Texas (1937–1946), compiling a career college football record of 198–72–23. Bible was also the head basketball coach at Texas A&M from 1920 to 1927 and the head baseball coach there from 1920 to 1921. In addition, he was the athletic director at Nebraska from 1932 to 1936 and at Texas from 1937 to 1956. Bible was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951.
Bible was born in Jefferson City, Tennessee. He graduated from Jefferson City High School in 1908 and received a B.A. degree from Carson–Newman College in 1912. Bible played football while in college and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, Iota chapter.
Bible began his coaching career at Brandon Prep School in Shelbyville, Tennessee. Mississippi College recruited him to coach in 1912, and he was recruited to coach for Texas A&M University in 1916.
In his college football coaching career, Bible compiled a record of 198–72–23. His teams had winning records in thirty of the thirty-three seasons he coached. Bible twice won ten games in a season. Bible also coached baseball and basketball at Texas A&M. During his hiatus from Texas A&M in 1918, Bible served as pilot in World War I.
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