:Alexander Bondurant

{{Short description|American classicist, educator and football coach}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1865|6|22}}

| birth_place = Buckingham County, Virginia, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1937|1|12|1865|6|22}}

| death_place = Oxford, Mississippi, U.S.

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| coach_years1 = 1893

| coach_team1 = Ole Miss

| overall_record = 4–1

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Alexander Lee Bondurant (June 22, 1865 – January 12, 1937) was an American classicist, educator and football coach. Born in Buckingham County, Virginia, he was educated at Hampden–Sydney College (A.B. and A.M.) and the University of Virginia, followed by further study at the University of Texas and Harvard University, and in Europe, where he studied Greek and Roman ruins. In 1889 he began his career as an instructor of Greek and Latin at the University of Mississippi, becoming head of the classics department in 1894, and the first dean of the graduate school in 1927,http://bondurant-family.org/BFA/Newsletters_files/Issue%2086.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224105408/http://bondurant-family.org/BFA/Newsletters_files/Issue%2086.pdf |date=December 24, 2013 }} Bondurant Family Association Newsletter 86 (2010): Obituary and other information from Mississippi State Archives retiring as dean emeritus in 1936.{{cite web |url=http://classics.olemiss.edu/history/the-bondurant-years/ |title=The Bondurant years |publisher=University of Mississippi |accessdate=February 19, 2012}} He also served as the first football coach at the university in 1893.{{cite book |title=The University of Mississippi: A Sesquicentennial History |last=David G. |first=Sansing |year=1999 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |location=Jackson, Mississippi |isbn=1-57806-091-5 |page=170 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWI2k-Awuk8C |accessdate=February 19, 2012}} During his one-season tenure, Bondurant compiled a record of four wins and one loss (4–1).{{Cite web |last=DeLassus |first=David |title=Alexander H. Bondurant Records by Year |publisher=College Football Data Warehouse |url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=204 |accessdate=February 19, 2012 |archive-date=December 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224113358/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=204 |url-status=dead }}