Preston Vaughn Overall
{{Short description|American football and basketball coach (1897–1974)}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Preston Vaughn Overall
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1897|6|5}}
| birth_place = Murfreesboro, Tennessee, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|1|1|1897|6|5}}
| death_place = Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
| alma_mater =
| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = 1917
| player_team2 = Middle Tennessee State Normal
| player_years3 = 1921
| player_team3 = Vanderbilt
| player_positions = Guard, tackle
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1923–1946
| coach_team2 = Tennessee Poly/Tech
| coach_years3 = 1952–1953
| coach_team3 = Tennessee Tech
| coach_sport4 = Basketball
| coach_years5 = 1924–1947
| coach_team5 = Tennessee Poly/Tech
| overall_record = 97–96–18 (football)
170–151–1 (basketball)
| bowl_record = 0–1
| tournament_record =
| championships = Football
2 OVC (1952–1953)
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Preston Vaughn "Putty" Overall (June 5, 1897 – January 1, 1974) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head coach of football, baseball, and basketball at Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, now known as Tennessee Tech. He came out of retirement in 1952 and coached Tech's football team, posting a 9–1 regular season record plus an invitation to the 1953 Tangerine Bowl. Overall played football at Middle Tennessee State, where he was captain of the 1917 team, as well as one year with Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores, in 1921. The First Fifty Years: A History of Middle Tennessee State College tells us "During his Murfreesboro days, "Putty Overall" was a hulking giant of two hundred and seventy-five pounds who required custom-made uniforms."{{cite book|url=http://digital.mtsu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/mtsu1/id/1904/rec/4|title=The First Fifty Years: A History of Middle Tennessee State College|author=Homer Pittard|pages=73, 219}} He was honored in 1961 as a distinguished alumnus of Middle Tennessee State University. In 1966, he was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=http://tshf.net/halloffame/overall-preston-vaughn-putty/|title=Preston Vaughn "Putty" Overall}}
Overall died on January 1, 1974, at a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee.{{cite news |author= |title=Sports News And Views |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94700347/the-daily-news-journal/ |newspaper=The Daily News Journal |location=Murfreesboro, Tennessee |date=January 3, 1974 |page=8 |access-date=February 10, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
Head coaching record
=Football=
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Tennessee Poly Golden Eagles
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1923
| endyear = 1930
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1923
| name = Tennessee Poly
| overall = 2–3–1
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1924
| name = Tennessee Poly
| overall = 5–3–1
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1925
| name = Tennessee Poly
| overall = 3–2–1
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1926
| name = Tennessee Poly
| overall = 1–4–1
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| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1927
| name = Tennessee Poly
| overall = 2–5–1
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1928
| name = Tennessee Poly
| overall = 6–0–1
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1929
| name = Tennessee Poly
| overall = 3–3–1
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1930
| name = Tennessee Poly
| overall = 6–2–1
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Tennessee Poly Golden Eagles
| conf = Mississippi Valley Conference
| startyear = 1931
| endyear = 1932
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1931
| name = Tennessee Poly
| overall = 6–3
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1932
| name = Tennessee Poly
| overall = 4–0–3
| conference = 2–0–1
| confstanding = 2nd
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| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles
| conf = Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
| startyear = 1933
| endyear = 1941
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1933
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 4–4
| conference = 2–2
| confstanding = T–14th
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1934
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 3–5–1
| conference = 1–4
| confstanding = T–26th
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1935
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 1–6–1
| conference = 0–5–1
| confstanding = T–32nd
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1936
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 2–5–1
| conference = 1–5
| confstanding = T–24th
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| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1937
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 3–5–1
| conference = 1–5–1
| confstanding = T–27th
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1938
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 6–3
| conference = 4–1
| confstanding = T–8th
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1939
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 6–3–1
| conference = 4–0
| confstanding = 2nd
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| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1940
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 2–6
| conference = 1–2
| confstanding = T–19th
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| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1941
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 5–4
| conference = 3–1
| confstanding = T–6th
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| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1942
| endyear = 1946
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1942
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 3–4–2
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1943
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 1–5
| conference =
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| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1944
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 1–2
| conference =
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| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1945
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 1–8
| conference =
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1946
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 5–5
| conference =
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| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles
| conf = Ohio Valley Conference
| startyear = 1952
| endyear = 1953
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1952
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 9–2
| conference = 4–1
| confstanding = T–1st
| bowlname = Tangerine
| bowloutcome = L
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1953
| name = Tennessee Tech
| overall = 7–4
| conference = 5–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Tennessee Poly/Tech
| overall = 97–96–18
| confrecord =
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{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 97–96–18
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
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References
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External links
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