Ellis Hagler
{{Short description|American football player and sports coach (1908–1990)}}
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| name = Ellis Hagler
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1908|5|2}}
| birth_place = Barbour County, Alabama, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=y|1990|9|21|1908|5|2}}
| death_place = Durham, North Carolina, U.S.
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| player_years1 = 1926–1928
| player_team1 = Alabama
| player_positions = Guard
| coach_years1 = 1930–1957
| coach_team1 = Duke (assistant)
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| awards = All-Southern (1928)
North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
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Ellis Pruitt "Dumpy" Hagler (May 2, 1908 – September 21, 1990) was an American college football player and coach. He also coached golf. He played and coached football under Wallace Wade. Hagler was president of the NCAA Golf Coaches Association, chairman of the Southern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference Golf Committees, and a member of the NCAA All-America selection committee.{{cite web|url=http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=220752|title=Ellis P. "Dumpy" Hagler|accessdate=February 17, 2015}}
University of Alabama
Hagler was a prominent guard for Wallace Wade's Alabama Crimson Tide football teams of the University of Alabama. He was selected All-Southern in 1928.{{cite news|title=All Southern Selections|newspaper=The Kingsport Times|date=December 7, 1928}}
Duke
=Football=
He followed his coach Wade and fellow assistant Herschel Caldwell to Duke University as an assistant and line coach for the Duke Blue Devils football teams.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1o-3fgPXEVgC&pg=PA42|title=Alabama Football Tales: More Than a Century of Crimson Tide Glory|author=Lewis Bowling|year=2012|page=42|isbn=9781609497224}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M1XhMW_vK6EC&pg=RA1-PA239|title=The Launching of Duke University, 1924-1949|author=Robert Franklin Durden|year=1993|page=239|isbn=0822313022}}{{cite news|title=Hagler To Coach Devils On Links|date=January 29, 1957|page=4|work=The Gastonia Gazette|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/4041183/}} World War II interrupted Wade's tenure, and Hagler continued as an assistant under Eddie Cameron.{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldsun.com/sports/duke/x1445512465/With-coach-Wade-at-war-Duke-wins-first-bowl-game|title=With coach Wade at war, Duke wins first bowl game|date=December 25, 2012|author=Lewis Bowling|accessdate=February 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217095232/http://www.heraldsun.com/sports/duke/x1445512465/With-coach-Wade-at-war-Duke-wins-first-bowl-game|archive-date=February 17, 2015|url-status=dead}}
His most famous unit was the 1938 front seven, who were nicknamed the "Iron Dukes." They went through the entire regular season without allowing a single score. Hagler's trophy received for an appearance in the 1942 Rose Bowl, the only one played outside of Pasadena, was found in the trash and resides at the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=http://abc11.com/sports/durham-man-finds-rare-trophy-in-trash/389598/|title=Durham Man Finds Rare Rose Bowl Trophy In Trash|date=November 10, 2014|accessdate=February 17, 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://www.ncdcr.gov/Portals/7/Collateral/FredsFindsSHOF.pdf |title=Fred's Finds |accessdate=February 17, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222000318/http://www.ncdcr.gov/Portals/7/Collateral/FredsFindsSHOF.pdf |archivedate=December 22, 2014 }}
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References
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{{1926 Alabama Crimson Tide football navbox}}
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Category:American football guards
Category:Alabama Crimson Tide football players
Category:Duke Blue Devils football coaches
Category:College golf coaches in the United States
Category:All-Southern college football players
Category:Players of American football from Barbour County, Alabama