:Tatum Gressette

{{short description|American college athletics coach and administrator}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|3|22}}

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1997|7|19|1900|3|22}}

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| player_sport1 = Football

| player_years2 = 1920–1921

| player_team2 = South Carolina

| player_positions =

| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1932–1939

| coach_team2 = The Citadel

| coach_sport3 = Baseball

| coach_years4 = 1932–1939

| coach_team4 = The Citadel

| admin_years1 = 1932–1939

| admin_team1 = The Citadel

| overall_record = 34–41–3 (football)

| bowl_record =

| tournament_record = Football
1 SIAA (1936)

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Tatum Wannamaker Gressette Sr. (March 22, 1900 – July 19, 1997)[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CS&s_site=thestate&p_multi=CS&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB5869226B9C9DC&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Tatum Gressette's obituary] was an American football and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He was the ninth head football coach at The Citadel, serving for eight seasons, from 1932 to 1939, and compiling a record of 34–41–3.[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/southern/citadel/coaching_records.php Citadel Coaching Records] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402094438/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/southern/citadel/coaching_records.php |date=April 2, 2015 }}

Head coaching record

=Football=

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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = The Citadel Bulldogs

| conf = Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association

| startyear = 1932

| endyear = 1934

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1932

| name = The Citadel

| overall = 4–5

| conference = 2–2

| confstanding = T–14th

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| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1933

| name = The Citadel

| overall = 3–5–1

| conference = 2–2–1

| confstanding = T–14th

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| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1934

| name = The Citadel

| overall = 3–5–1

| conference = 3–1

| confstanding = T–8th

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| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1935

| name = The Citadel

| overall = 4–3–1

| conference = 4–1

| confstanding = T–9th

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| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = The Citadel Bulldogs

| conf = Southern Conference / Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association

| startyear = 1936

| endyear = single

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| year = 1936

| name = The Citadel

| overall = 4–6 /

| conference = 0–4 / 4–0

| confstanding = 14th / T–1st

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| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = The Citadel Bulldogs

| conf = Southern Conference

| startyear = 1937

| endyear = 1939

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1937

| name = The Citadel

| overall = 7–4

| conference = 2–3

| confstanding = 8th

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| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1938

| name = The Citadel

| overall = 6–5

| conference = 2–3

| confstanding = 10th

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| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1939

| name = The Citadel

| overall = 3–8

| conference = 0–4

| confstanding = 15th

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| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = The Citadel

| overall = 34–41–3

| confrecord = 19–22–1

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{{CFB Yearly Record End

| overall = 34–41–3

| bowls = no

| poll = no

| polltype =

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