Jack C. Vowell

{{Short description|American football player and sports coach (1899–1969)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox college coach

| name = Jack C. Vowell

| birth_date = {{birth date|1899|7|24}}

| birth_place = Sherman, Texas

| death_date = {{death date and age|1969|9|16|1899|7|24}}

| death_place = El Paso, Texas

| alma_mater = Virginia Military Institute

| player_sport1 = Football

| player_years2 = 1920–1921

| player_team2 = Texas

| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1922–1923

| coach_team2 = Texas Mines

| coach_sport3 = Basketball

| coach_years4 = 1923–1924

| coach_team4 = Texas Mines

| overall_record = 8–8 (football)
3–10 (basketball)

| bowl_record =

| tournament_record =

| championships =

| awards =

• Southwest Conference Championship - 1920

| coaching_records =

}}

Jack Caruthers Vowell Sr. (July 24, 1899 – September 16, 1969) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball.

Vowell was born in Sherman, Texas in 1899 and his family moved to El Paso in 1908 where he attended El Paso High School and then the Virginia Military Institute.{{cite news |title=Jack Vowell, Civic Leader Dies in Home |url=https://www.elpasohistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Vowell-Jack-C.pdf |access-date=7 February 2025 |work=El Paso Times |date=17 September 1969}}

While studying law at the University of Texas at Austin, he played college football for the Longhorns in 1920 and 1921, helping the team to win the 1920 Southwest Conference Championship.{{cite web|url=https://texassports.com/sports/2013/7/21/FB_0721133603.aspx?id=152|title=All-Time Letterwinners|publisher=Texas Longhorns football|access-date=December 6, 2018}}

After leaving UT, Vowell served as the head football coach the College of Mines and Metallurgy of the University of Texas—now known as the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)—from 1922 to 1923, compiling a record of 8–8.{{cite web|url=https://utepathletics.com/documents/2017/7/11/UTEP_FB_Media_Guide_2017_WEB.pdf|title=UTEP Football Media Guide|publisher=UTEP Miners football|year=2017|access-date=December 26, 2018}} He was also the head basketball coach at Texas Mines in 1923–24, tallying a mark of 3–10.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/coaches/jack-vowell-1.html|title=Jack Vowell|publisher=Sports-Reference College Basketball|access-date=December 6, 2018}}

In 1927 he entered the contracting business. After working for several other companies, he organized the Vowell Construction Company and Vowell Material Company in 1945 and was president of both until his death. He was an active civic leader in the El Paso community serving as Chairman of the Board of the Southwestern International Livestock Show and Rodeo and on the Boards of the El Paso Chamber of Commerce, Goodwill and the El Paso Heart Association. He was a local and national leader of the Boy Scouts of America and was awarded the Silver Beaver, Silver Antelope and Silver Buffalo awards.

He died of natural causes in his home on 16 September 1969.

He married Daurice Hurt McDaniel on 24 July 1922, in El Paso, Texas, and his son, Jack Caruthers Vowell Jr., served 7 terms in the Texas Legislature until his retirement in 1994.