Dudy Noble
{{Short description|American multi-sport athlete}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Dudy Noble
| image = Dudy Noble.png
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| caption = Noble pictured in Reveille 1934, Mississippi State yearbook
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1893|5|6}}
| birth_place = Learned, Mississippi, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1963|2|2|1893|5|6}}
| death_place = Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.
| alma_mater =
| player_years1 = 1911–1915
| player_team1 = Mississippi A&M
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1916
| coach_team2 = Mississippi College
| coach_years3 = 1917–1918
| coach_team3 = Ole Miss
| coach_years4 = 1919–1921
| coach_team4 = Mississippi A&M (assistant)
| coach_years5 = 1922
| coach_team5 = Mississippi A&M
| coach_years6 = 1923–1929
| coach_team6 = Mississippi A&M (assistant)
| coach_sport7 = Basketball
| coach_years8 = 1918–1919
| coach_team8 = Ole Miss
| coach_sport9 = Baseball
| coach_years10 = 1918–1919
| coach_team10 = Ole Miss
| coach_years11 = 1920–1943
| coach_team11 = Mississippi A&M/State
| coach_years12 = 1946–1947
| coach_team12 = Mississippi State
| admin_years1 = 1930–1934
| admin_team1 = Mississippi State
| admin_years2 = 1937–1959
| admin_team2 = Mississippi State
| overall_record = 11–14–3 (football)
0–3 (basketball)
277–205–9 (baseball)
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Clark Randolph "Dudy" Noble (May 6, 1893 – February 2, 1963) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, track athlete, coach, and college athletics administrator.
College
Born in Learned, Mississippi, Noble attended Mississippi State University (then known as Mississippi A&M College) in Starkville, Mississippi. During his college days he earned 14 varsity letters in four sports—football, basketball, baseball and track. He graduated in 1917.
Coaching and administrative career
After his college playing days were over, Noble went on to coach basketball, football, and most notably baseball at the college level for three different schools in his home state; Mississippi College, The University of Mississippi, and his alma mater Mississippi A&M.
=Mississippi College=
His first coaching job was as the head football coach at Mississippi College in 1916. While there he earned his second coaching victory when he led the Choctaws to a 13–6 upset over Mississippi A&M in a game played in Aberdeen, Mississippi.{{cite web|url=http://www.forwhomthecowbelltolls.com/mississippi-state-football-history/2013/7/21/4289240/legendary-msu-coach-dudy-nobles-first-win-as-a-college-coach-was|title=Dudy Noble's first win came against MSU... in FB?|date=July 21, 2013|access-date=February 5, 2018}} The Choctaws finished the season with a record of 4–3.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/mississippi-college/1916.html|title=1916 Mississippi College Choctaws Stats - College Football at Sports-Reference.com|website=College Football at Sports-Reference.com|access-date=February 5, 2018}}
=Ole Miss=
In 1917 Noble became the head football coach at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), a position he held for two seasons. During his two years as the Rebels' head coach he compiled a record of 2–7–1 and went 0–3 against his alma mater, Mississippi A&M. He holds the distinction of having been the only head coach to lose two Egg Bowls in one season (1918).{{cite web|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_game_by_game.php?coachid=1751&year=1918|title=Coaching Records Game by Game|website=www.cfbdatawarehouse.com|access-date=February 5, 2018|archive-date=December 10, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210210801/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_game_by_game.php?coachid=1751&year=1918|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_game_by_game.php?coachid=1751&year=1917|title=Coaching Records Game by Game|website=www.cfbdatawarehouse.com|access-date=February 5, 2018|archive-date=December 10, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210210638/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_game_by_game.php?coachid=1751&year=1917|url-status=dead}} For the 1918–19 season he served as the head basketball coach at Ole Miss going 0–3. He had his most success in Oxford as the baseball coach compiling an overall record of 10–4 in the 1918 and 1919 seasons.{{cite web|url=http://msfame.com/hall-of-fame/inductees/clark-randolph-dudy-noble/|title=Clark Randolph "Dudy" Noble|date=November 6, 2012|access-date=February 5, 2018}}
=Mississippi State=
Starting in 1920 Noble took over as skipper of the Mississippi State baseball team, a position that he held for 26 seasons until 1947 (MSU had no baseball team in 1944 and 1945). As head baseball coach he compiled a record 267–201–9 and won three Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association championships.{{Cite web |url=http://www.nmnathletics.com/fls/16800/pdf/bb/bb_13mg.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=16800 |title=Archived copy |access-date=December 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210213939/http://www.nmnathletics.com/fls/16800/pdf/bb/bb_13mg.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=16800 |archive-date=December 10, 2013 |url-status=dead }} During his time as head baseball coach he awarded Dave "Boo" Ferris the first full baseball scholarship in Mississippi history.{{cite web|url=http://msfame.com/news-updates/dudy-noble-glad-you-asked/|title=Dudy Noble? Glad you asked. . .|date=February 17, 2013|access-date=February 5, 2018}} Noble also served one season as the Bulldogs' head football coach going 3–4–2 in 1922, including a victory over his former squad from Ole Miss.{{cite web|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_game_by_game.php?coachid=1751&year=1922|title=Coaching Records Game by Game|website=www.cfbdatawarehouse.com|access-date=February 5, 2018|archive-date=December 10, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210220036/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_game_by_game.php?coachid=1751&year=1922|url-status=dead}}
From 1938 to 1959, Noble was also the athletic director at Mississippi State. During his tenure as athletic director he made several notable hires. Among those were football coaches Murray Warmath, Darrell Royal, and Allyn McKeen. McKeen left as MSU's all-time winningest head coach and is the only MSU coach elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. He hired basketball coach Babe McCarthy who won three SEC championships and defied state authorities to take MSU to its first NCAA basketball tournament in 1963.{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/8741183/game-change-mississippi-state-loyola-cannot-forgotten-college-basketball|title=O'Neil: Game of Change cannot be forgotten|date=December 13, 2012|access-date=February 5, 2018}} In 1953, he hired Jack Cristil who would go on to be the "Voice of the Bulldogs" for 58 years.[http://www.mstateathletics.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=16800&ATCLID=205102573 Legendary Voice Of The Bulldogs Jack Cristil To Conclude Career Saturday] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714130039/http://www.mstateathletics.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=16800&ATCLID=205102573 |date=July 14, 2011 }}
Death and honors
Noble died on February 2, 1963, at a hospital in Vicksburg, Mississippi; he was 69 years old.{{cite news |title=Mississippi State's Dudy Noble dead at 69 |first=John |last=Hall |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pvocAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7poEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1230,204482 |newspaper=The Tuscaloosa News |date=February 3, 1963 |access-date=January 16, 2011}}
The Mississippi State baseball field was named Dudy Noble Field in his honor in 1949.{{cite web|url=http://www.hailstate.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=925407|title=Dudy Noble Field, Polk-DeMent Stadium|website=Mississippi State University Athletics|access-date=February 5, 2018}} He became a member of the Helms Baseball Hall of Fame in 1954, he was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1961 and the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1967.{{Cite web |url=http://www.hailstate.com/fls/16800/pdf/bb/bb_08mg_history.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=December 6, 2013 |archive-date=June 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150616044451/http://www.hailstate.com/fls/16800/pdf/bb/bb_08mg_history.pdf |url-status=dead }}
Speaking on his time spent in Oxford Dudy Noble once told a Tennessee sports writer: “I already know what hell is like. I once coached at Ole Miss.”http://msfame.com/news-updates/dudy-noble-glad-you-asked/ Dudy Noble? Glad You Asked... Noble once owned a bird dog, a lazy mutt that refused to hunt.
Dudy Noble named him “Mr. Ole Miss.”{{cite web|url=http://djournal.com/news/rick-cleveland-dudy-noble-did-his-duty-for-mississippi-state/|title=RICK CLEVELAND: Dudy Noble did his duty for Mississippi State|first=Chris|last=Elkins|access-date=February 5, 2018}}
Head coaching record
=Football=
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Mississippi College Choctaws
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1916
| endyear = single
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| name = Mississippi College
| overall = 6–3
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Ole Miss Rebels
| conf = Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
| startyear = 1917
| endyear = 1918
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| year = 1917
| name = Ole Miss
| overall = 1–4–1
| conference = 1–4
| confstanding = 14th
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| name = Ole Miss
| overall = 1–3
| conference = 0–2
| confstanding = T–9th
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Ole Miss
| overall = 2–7–1
| confrecord = 1–6
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Mississippi A&M Bulldogs
| conf = Southern Conference
| startyear = 1922
| endyear = single
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| year = 1922
| name = Mississippi A&M
| overall = 3–4–2
| conference = 2–3
| confstanding = 11th
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| name = Mississippi A&M
| overall = 3–4–2
| confrecord = 2–3
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{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 11–14–3
| bowls = no
| poll = no
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| legend = no
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=Basketball=
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| name = Ole Miss Rebels
| conference = Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
| startyear = 1918
| endyear = 1919
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| overall = 0–3
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| overall = 0–3
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| overall = 0–3
| legend = no
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=Baseball=
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Ole Miss Rebels
| conference = Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
| startyear = 1918
| endyear = 1919
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| season = 1918
| name = Ole Miss
| overall = 9–1
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{{CBB yearly record entry
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| overall = 1–3
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| name = Ole Miss
| overall = 10–4
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Mississippi A&M Bulldogs
| conference = Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
| startyear = 1920
| endyear = 1922
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1920
| name = Mississippi A&M
| overall = 8–8
| conference = 6–6
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = conference
| season = 1921
| name = Mississippi A&M
| overall = 13–8
| conference = 6–6
| confstanding = 1st
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = conference
| season = 1922
| name = Mississippi A&M
| overall = 16–6–3
| conference = 7–1–1
| confstanding = 1st
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Mississippi A&M Bulldogs
| conference = Southern Conference
| startyear = 1923
| endyear = 1932
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1923
| name = Mississippi A&M
| overall = 14–9
| conference = 11–7
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = conference
| season = 1924
| name = Mississippi A&M
| overall = 17–7
| conference = 12–3
| confstanding = 1st
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1925
| name = Mississippi A&M
| overall = 19–7
| conference = 9–5
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1926
| name = Mississippi A&M
| overall = 14–9
| conference = 11–7
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1927
| name = Mississippi A&M
| overall = 13–8–1
| conference = 9–7
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1928
| name = Mississippi A&M
| overall = 12–8
| conference = 7–6
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1929
| name = Mississippi A&M
| overall = 9–6–3
| conference = 3–5
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1930
| name = Mississippi A&M
| overall = 12–12
| conference = 6–7
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1931
| name = Mississippi A&M
| overall = 12–9
| conference = 8–5
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1932
| name = Mississippi A&M
| overall = 8–10
| conference = 6–8
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Mississippi State Bulldogs
| conference = Southeastern Conference
| startyear = 1933
| endyear = 1947
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1933
| name = Mississippi State
| overall = 10–5
| conference = 5–3
| confstanding = 2nd
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1934
| name = Mississippi State
| overall = 11–5
| conference = 8–4
| confstanding = 2nd
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1935
| name = Mississippi State
| overall = 8–3
| conference = 8–3
| confstanding = 2nd
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1936
| name = Mississippi State
| overall = 8–5–1
| conference = 6–4
| confstanding = 3rd
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1937
| name = Mississippi State
| overall = 12–3
| conference = 8–3
| confstanding = 3rd
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1938
| name = Mississippi State
| overall = 5–7
| conference = 3–7
| confstanding = 10th
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1939
| name = Mississippi State
| overall = 7–10
| conference = 3–10
| confstanding = 11th
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1940
| name = Mississippi State
| overall = 5–9
| conference = 4–7
| confstanding = 7th
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1941
| name = Mississippi State
| overall = 8–9
| conference = 7–8
| confstanding = 7th
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1942
| name = Mississippi State
| overall = 8–6–1
| conference = 6–7
| confstanding = 6th
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1943
| name = Mississippi State
| overall = 3–9
| conference = 3–9
| confstanding = T–7th
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1946
| name = Mississippi State
| overall = 3–12
| conference = 2–9
| confstanding = 6th
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{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = 1947
| name = Mississippi State
| overall = 8–8
| conference = 7–8
| confstanding = 8th
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Mississippi State
| confrecord = 70–82
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{{CBB Yearly Record End
| overall = 277–205–9
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