Jack Meagher
{{Short description|American athlete and coach (1894–1968)}}
{{For|the Australian rules footballer|Jack Meagher (Australian footballer)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Jack Meagher
| image = Jack Meagher.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1894|7|5}}
| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1968|12|7|1894|7|5}}
| death_place = Miami, Florida, U.S.
| alma_mater =
| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = 1916
| player_team2 = Notre Dame
| player_years3 = 1920
| player_team3 = Chicago Tigers
| player_positions = End
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1921–1928
| coach_team2 = St. Edward's
| coach_years3 = 1929–1933
| coach_team3 = Rice
| coach_years4 = 1934–1942
| coach_team4 = Auburn
| coach_years5 = 1944
| coach_team5 = Iowa Pre-Flight
| coach_years6 = 1946
| coach_team6 = Miami Seahawks
| coach_sport7 = Basketball
| coach_years8 = 1921–1924
| coach_team8 = St. Edward's
| coach_sport9 = Baseball
| coach_years10 = 1922–1929
| coach_team10 = St. Edward's
| admin_years1 = 1934–1942
| admin_team1 = Auburn
| overall_record = 21–7 (college basketball)
1–5 (AAFC)
| bowl_record = 1–0–1
| tournament_record =
| championships =
| awards = Football
SEC Coach of the Year (1935)
| coaching_records =
}}
John Francis Meagher (July 5, 1894 – December 7, 1968) was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator.
Meagher played football for the University of Notre Dame in 1916, rising to a second-team end under then-assistant coach, Knute Rockne.{{Cite web|url=http://1966.undclass.org/s/1210/clubs-interior.aspx?sid=1210&gid=237&pgid=252&cid=34484&ecid=34484&crid=0&calpgid=7917&calcid=27566|title=ND Football Trivia Question (11/12/13)|website=myNotreDame - Class of 1966|access-date=April 9, 2016|archive-date=April 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420195843/http://1966.undclass.org/s/1210/clubs-interior.aspx?sid=1210&gid=237&pgid=252&cid=34484&ecid=34484&crid=0&calpgid=7917&calcid=27566|url-status=dead}} He served with the United States Marines in France during World War I{{cite web|url=https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/65249/thr19290315.pdf?sequence=1|format=PDF|title=The Thresher|date=March 15, 1929|website=Scholarship.rice.edu|access-date=October 26, 2021}} and played in four games with the Chicago Tigers in 1920, the first year of the National Football League (NFL).
Meagher embarked on a career in coaching in 1921 at St. Edward's University, where he served as head football coach from 1921 to 1928, compiling a record of 24–21–4,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g9W5B0L1O0wC|title=NFL Head Coaches: A Biographical Dictionary, 1920-2011|last=Maxymuk|first=John|date=August 2, 2012|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786492954|language=en}} and as head basketball coach from 1921 to 1924. From 1929 to 1933, he coached football at Rice University, where he compiled a 26–26 record. From 1934 to 1942, he was the head football coach at Auburn University, where he compiled a 48–37–10 record. Shug Jordan was his assistant coach. During his nine seasons coaching the Auburn Tigers, they played in their first bowl game ever, the Bacardi Bowl. The game was held in Havana, Cuba. In 1935, Meagher was named the SEC Coach of the Year. He joined the Navy during World War II and served as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy. Meagher also coached the Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks football team in 1944 during World War II. In 1946, he coached the first six games of the season for the Miami Seahawks of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), going 1–5.
Former players of Meagher at Auburn University were known as Meagher's Marauders because of their aggression on the football field, and most of the games they played were on the road. During Meagher's first 6 years at Auburn, his players played only 3 home games. Meagher was the driving force behind the building of Auburn's stadium. Auburn Stadium opened in 1939 and seated 7,500. Meagher's Marauders award a scholarship every year to an Auburn student during one of the fall games. In 2015, the Coach Jack Meagher Award (CJM) was awarded to Vincent "Bo" Jackson.
Meager died on December 7, 1968.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/54243452/|title=Playground Daily News from Fort Walton Beach, Florida · Page 9|website=Newspapers.com|access-date=April 9, 2016}} He is buried at Hollywood Memorial Gardens East in Hollywood, Florida.{{Cite web|url=http://www.learnwebskills.com/browardcem/hollyeast28.htm|title=Hollywood Memorial Gardens East Cemetery Records - Broward County, Florida|website=Learnwebskills.com|access-date=April 9, 2016}} Meagher was inducted into the St. Edward's University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1989.
Head coaching record
=College football=
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = St. Edward's Saints
| conf = Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association
| startyear = 1921
| endyear = 1926
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
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| year = 1921
| name = St. Edward's
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| year = 1922
| name = St. Edward's
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| year = 1923
| name = St. Edward's
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1924
| name = St. Edward's
| overall = 6–2
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1925
| name = St. Edward's
| overall = 3–4–1
| conference = 1–3–1
| confstanding = T–10th
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| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1926
| name = St. Edward's
| overall = 4–6
| conference = 0–2
| confstanding = 8th
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| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = St. Edward's Saints
| conf = Texas Conference
| startyear = 1927
| endyear = 1928
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1927
| name = St. Edward's
| overall = 3–3–3
| conference = 1–1–1
| confstanding = 4th
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1928
| name = St. Edward's
| overall = 6–5
| conference = 3–1
| confstanding = 2nd
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| ranking2 = no
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| name = St. Edward's
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Rice Owls
| conf = Southwest Conference
| startyear = 1929
| endyear = 1933
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1929
| name = Rice
| overall = 2–7
| conference = 0–5
| confstanding = 7th
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| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1930
| name = Rice
| overall = 8–4
| conference = 2–4
| confstanding = 6th
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| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1931
| name = Rice
| overall = 6–4
| conference = 3–3
| confstanding = 4th
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| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1932
| name = Rice
| overall = 7–3
| conference = 3–3
| confstanding = 3rd
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| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1933
| name = Rice
| overall = 3–8
| conference = 1–5
| confstanding = 7th
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| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Rice
| overall = 26–26
| confrecord = 9–20
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Auburn Tigers
| conf = Southeastern Conference
| startyear = 1934
| endyear = 1942
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1934
| name = Auburn
| overall = 2–8
| conference = 1–6
| confstanding = 10th
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| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1935
| name = Auburn
| overall = 8–2
| conference = 5–2
| confstanding = 4th
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| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1936
| name = Auburn
| overall = 7–2–2
| conference = 4–1–1
| confstanding = 3rd
| bowlname = Bacardi
| bowloutcome = T
| bcsbowl =
| ranking =
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1937
| name = Auburn
| overall = 6–2–3
| conference = 4–1–2
| confstanding = 3rd
| bowlname = Orange
| bowloutcome = W
| bcsbowl =
| ranking =
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1938
| name = Auburn
| overall = 4–5–1
| conference = 3–3–1
| confstanding = T–7th
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| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1939
| name = Auburn
| overall = 5–5–1
| conference = 3–3–1
| confstanding = T–5th
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| ranking =
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1940
| name = Auburn
| overall = 6–4–1
| conference = 3–2–1
| confstanding = 5th
| bowlname =
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| bcsbowl =
| ranking =
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1941
| name = Auburn
| overall = 4–5–1
| conference = 0–4–1
| confstanding = 11th
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| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1942
| name = Auburn
| overall = 6–4–1
| conference = 3–3
| confstanding = 7th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = 16
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Auburn
| overall = 48–37–10
| confrecord = 26–25–7
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1944
| endyear = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1944
| name = Iowa Pre-Flight
| overall = 10–1
| conference =
| confstanding =
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| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = 6
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Iowa Pre-Flight
| overall = 10–1
| confrecord =
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{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall =
| bowls = no
| poll =
| polltype = Rankings from final AP Poll
| legend = no
}}
References
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External links
- {{Footballstats |nfl=jack-meagher |pfr=M/MeagJa20 }}
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