Doug Dickey
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Dickey from 1971 Seminole yearbook
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
June 24, 1932 Vermillion, South Dakota |
| Playing career | |
| 1951–1953 | Florida |
| Position(s) | Defensive back, quarterback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1957–1963 | Arkansas (assistant) |
| 1964–1969 | Tennessee |
| 1970–1978 | Florida |
| 1979 | Colorado (OC) |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1985–2002 | Tennessee |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 104–58–6 |
| Bowls | 2–7 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2 SEC (1967, 1969) | |
| Awards | |
| 2x SEC Coach of the Year (1965, 1967) Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame |
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College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 2003 (profile) |
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Douglas Adair Dickey (born June 24, 1932) is an American former college football player and coach and college athletics administrator. Dickey is a South Dakota native who was raised in Florida and graduated from the University of Florida, where he played college football. He is best known as the head coach of the University of Tennessee and the University of Florida football teams, and afterward, as the athletic director of the University of Tennessee.
Dickey was born in Vermillion, South Dakota in 1932, and grew up in Gainesville, Florida, where his father was a speech professor at the University of Florida. After graduating from P.K. Yonge High School in Gainesville, he attended the University of Florida and played for coach Bob Woodruff's Florida Gators football team from 1951 to 1953. Dickey was a walk-on after being encouraged by assistant coach Dave Fuller. Dickey began his college career as a defensive back, but he remarkably advanced from seventh on the Gators' quarterback depth chart to starter after Haywood Sullivan's early departure for the Boston Red Sox left the Gators without a starting quarterback in 1952. As a quarterback Dickey was not a drop-back passer, but a football-savvy game manager, who Woodruff called "one of the brainiest quarterbacks I ever saw." In January 1953, Dickey led the Gators to a 14–13 win over the University of Tulsa in the Gator Bowl, Florida's first-ever NCAA-sanctioned bowl game.
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