Joel Eaves
| Sport(s) | Basketball, football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
June 3, 1914 Copperhill, Tennessee |
| Died | July 18, 1991 (aged 77) Athens, Georgia |
| Playing career | |
| 1934–1937 | Auburn |
| Position(s) | Guard, End (football) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Basketball | |
| 1937 | Sewanee (assistant) |
| 1938–1941 | Sewanee |
| 1949–1963 | Auburn |
| Football | |
| 1957 | Auburn (assistant) |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1963–1979 | Georgia |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 217–143 (.603) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
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Joel Harry Eaves (June 3, 1914 – July 18, 1991) was a college football and basketball player and coach as well as athletic director. He is perhaps most known for coaching basketball at his alma mater, the Auburn Tigers of Auburn University. He is the all-time winningest coach in Auburn basketball history. He was also once athletic director for the Georgia Bulldogs. Eaves was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 1978.
Eaves was born on the Georgia state line in Copperhill, Tennessee. He grew up in Atlanta and attended Tech High School.
Eaves played on the Auburn Tigers basketball, football, and baseball teams
Eaves was captain of the basketball team his senior year, an all-around guard. He stood 6 feet 3 inches and weighed 190 pounds. The head coach of the basketball team was Ralph "Shug" Jordan.
On coach Jack Meagher's football team, Eaves was an end, selected All-SEC by the Associated Press in 1936. He was drafted in the eighth round of the 1937 NFL Draft by the Boston Redskins but never played in the National Football League (NFL).
He pitched on the baseball team.
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