Dudy Noble

Dudy Noble
Biographical details
Noble pictured in Reveille 1934, Mississippi State yearbook
Sport(s)	Football, basketball, baseball, track
Born	(1893-05-06)May 6, 1893 Learned, Mississippi
Died	February 2, 1963(1963-02-02) (aged 69) Vicksburg, Mississippi
Alma mater	Mississippi A&M
Playing career
1911–1915	Mississippi A&M
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1916	Mississippi College
1917–1918	Ole Miss
1919–1921	Mississippi A&M (assistant)
1922	Mississippi A&M
1923–1929	Mississippi A&M (assistant)
Basketball
1918–1919	Ole Miss
Baseball
1918–1919	Ole Miss
1920–1943	Mississippi A&M/State
1946–1947	Mississippi State
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1930–1934	Mississippi State
1937–1959	Mississippi State
Head coaching record
Overall	11–14–3 (football) 0–3 (basketball) 277–205–9 (baseball)

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 1915.

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 first coaching victory when he led the Choctaws to a 13–6 upset over Mississippi State in a game played in Aberdeen, Mississippi.^[1] The Choctaws finished the season with a record of 4-3^[2]

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).^[3]^[4] 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.^[5]

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.^[6] During his time as head baseball coach he awarded Dave "Boo" Ferris the first full baseball scholarship in Mississippi history.^[7] 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.^[8]

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.^[9]^[10] 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.^[11] In 1953 he hired Jack Cristil who would go on to be the "Voice of the Bulldogs" for 58 years.^[12]

Death and honors

Noble died on February 2, 1963 at a hospital in Vicksburg, Mississippi; he was 69 years old.^[13]

The Mississippi State baseball field was named Dudy Noble Field in his honor in 1949.^[14] 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.^[15]^[16]

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.”^[17] Noble once owned a bird dog, a lazy mutt that refused to hunt. Dudy Noble named him “Mr. Ole Miss.”^[18]

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Mississippi College Choctaws (Independent) (1916)
1916	Mississippi College	6–3^[19]
Mississippi College:		6-3
Ole Miss Rebels (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1917–1918)
1917	Ole Miss	1–4–1^[20]
1918	Ole Miss	1–3
Ole Miss:		2–7–1
Mississippi A&M Bulldogs (Southern Conference) (1922)
1922	Mississippi A&M	3–4–2	2–3	11th
Mississippi A&M:		3–4–2	2–3
Total:		11–14–3

Basketball

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Ole Miss Rebels (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1918–1919)
1918–19		0–3
Ole Miss:		0–3
Total:		0–3

Baseball

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Ole Miss Rebels (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1918–1919)
1918	Ole Miss	9–1
1919	Ole Miss	1–3
Ole Miss:		10–4
Mississippi A&M Bulldogs (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1920–1922)
1920	Mississippi A&M	8–8	6–6
1921	Mississippi A&M	13–8	6–6	1st
1922	Mississippi A&M	16–6–3	7–1–1	1st
Mississippi A&M Bulldogs (Southern Conference) (1923–1932)
1923	Mississippi A&M	14–9	11–7
1924	Mississippi A&M	17–7	12–3	1st
1925	Mississippi A&M	19–7	9–5
1926	Mississippi A&M	14–9	11–7
1927	Mississippi A&M	13–8–1	9–7
1928	Mississippi A&M	12–8	7–6
1929	Mississippi A&M	9–6–3	3–5
1930	Mississippi A&M	12–12	6–7
1931	Mississippi A&M	12–9	8–5
1932	Mississippi A&M	8–10	6–8
Mississippi State Bulldogs (Southeastern Conference) (1933–1947)
1933	Mississippi State	10–5	5–3	2nd
1934	Mississippi State	11–5	8–4	2nd
1935	Mississippi State	8–3	8–3	2nd
1936	Mississippi State	8–5–1	6–4	3rd
1937	Mississippi State	12–3	8–3	3rd
1938	Mississippi State	5–7	3–7	10th
1939	Mississippi State	7–10	3–10	11th
1940	Mississippi State	5–9	4–7	7th
1941	Mississippi State	8–9	7–8	7th
1942	Mississippi State	8–6–1	6–7	6th
1943	Mississippi State	3–9	3–9	T–7th
1944	No team
1945	No team
1946	Mississippi State	3–12	2–9	6th
1947	Mississippi State	8–8	7–8	8th
Mississippi State:		267–201–9^[21]	70–82
Total:		277–205–9
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

References

External links

Dudy Noble at the College Football Data Warehouse

Mississippi College Choctaws head football coaches

No coach (1907–1909)
Dale E. Chadwick (1910–1912)
Dana X. Bible (1913–1915)
Dudy Noble (1916)
No team (1917–1918)
Frank G. Anderson (1919)
Stanley L. Robinson (1920–1923)
John M. King (1924)
George Bohler (1925–1927)
Stanley L. Robinson (1928–1941)
No team (1942–1945)
Stanley L. Robinson (1946–1953)
Joe Murphy (1954–1958)
Hartwell McPhail (1959–1971)
John M. Williams (1972–1990)
Terry L. McMillan (1991–1999)
Johnny Mills (2000–2004)
Norman Joseph (2005–2013)
John Bland (2014– )

Ole Miss Rebels head football coaches

Alexander Bondurant (1893)
J. W. S. Rhea / C. D. Clark % (1894)
H. L. Fairbanks (1895)
John W. Hollister (1896)
No team (1897)
T. G. Scarbrough (1898)
W. H. Lyon (1899)
Z. N. Estes (1900)
William Shibley (1901)
Daniel S. Martin (1902)
M. S. Harvey (1903–1904)
No coach (1905)
Thomas S. Hammond (1906)
Frank A. Mason (1907)
Frank Kyle (1908)
Nathan Stauffer (1909–1911)
Leo DeTray (1912)
William L. Driver (1913–1914)
Fred A. Robins (1915–1916)
Dudy Noble (1917–1918)
R. L. Sullivan (1919–1921)
Roland Cowell (1922–1923)
Chester S. Barnard (1924)
Homer Hazel (1925–1929)
Ed Walker (1930–1937)
Harry Mehre (1938–1942)
No team (1943)
Harry Mehre (1944–1945)
Harold Drew (1946)
Johnny Vaught (1947–1970)
Billy Kinard (1971–1973)
Johnny Vaught (1973)
Ken Cooper (1974–1977)
Steve Sloan (1978–1982)
Billy Brewer (1983–1993)
Joe Lee Dunn (1994)
Tommy Tuberville (1995–1998)
David Cutcliffe (1998–2004)
Ed Orgeron (2005–2007)
Houston Nutt (2008–2011)
Hugh Freeze (2012– )

Percent sign (%) denotes disputed coaching records. See Ole Miss Rebels football.

Ole Miss Rebels men's basketball head coaches

Unknown (1908–1910)
E. R. Hubbard (1910–1911)
By Walton (1911–1912)
Unknown (1912–1917)
No team (1917–1918)
Dudy Noble (1918–1919)
R. L. Sullivan (1919–1925)
Homer Hazel (1925–1930)
Ed Walker (1930–1935)
George Bohler (1935–1938)
Frank Johnson (1938–1939)
Chuck Jaskwhich (1939–1942)
Edwin Hale (1942–1943)
No team (1943–1944)
Edwin Hale (1944–1945)
Buster Poole (1945–1946)
Jim Whatley (1946–1949)
B. L. Graham (1949–1962)
Eddie Crawford (1962–1968)
Cob Jarvis (1968–1976)
Bob Weltlich (1976–1982)
Lee Hunt (1982–1986)
Ed Murphy (1986–1992)
Rob Evans (1992–1998)
Rod Barnes (1998–2006)
Andy Kennedy (2006– )

Ole Miss Rebels head baseball coaches

Unknown (1893)
No team (1894)
Unknown (1895)
No team (1896)
Unknown (1897)
No team (1898–1899)
T. H. Johnson (1900)
P. J. Murphy (1901)
Ashford (1902)
T. J. Keefe (1904)
J. C. Elmer (1905)
Unknown (1906–1907)
J. M. Acker (1908)
Unknown (1909)
J. W. McCall (1910)
Edgar Moss (1911–1912)
No team (1913)
Casey Stengel (1914)
Unknown (1915)
Fred A. Robins (1916)
Baxter Sparks (1917)
Dudy Noble (1918–1919)
Unknown (1920–1922)
Pete Shields (1923–1931)
Tad Smith (1932–1942)
Edwin Hale (1943)
No team (1944–1945)
Tad Smith (1946–1950)
Tom Swayze (1951–1971)
Jake Gibbs (1972–1990)
Don Kessinger (1991–1996)
Pat Harrison (1997–2000)
Mike Bianco (2001– )

Mississippi State Bulldogs head football coaches

W. M. Matthews (1895)
J. B. Hildebrand (1896)
No team (1897–1900)
L. B. Harvey (1901)
Jerry Gwin (1902)
Daniel S. Martin (1903–1906)
Fred Furman (1907–1908)
W. D. Chadwick (1909–1913)
Earle C. Hayes (1914–1916)
Stanley L. Robinson (1917–1919)
Ferdinand Holtkamp (1920–1921)
Dudy Noble (1922)
Earl Abell (1923–1924)
Bernie Bierman (1925–1926)
John W. Hancock (1927–1929)
Chris Cagle (1930)
Ray G. Dauber (1931–1932)
Ross McKechnie (1933–1934)
Ralph Sasse (1935–1937)
Spike Nelson (1938)
Allyn McKeen (1939–1942)
No team (1943)
Allyn McKeen (1944–1948)
Arthur Morton (1949–1951)
Murray Warmath (1952–1953)
Darrell Royal (1954–1955)
Wade Walker (1956–1961)
Paul E. Davis (1962–1966)
Charles Shira (1967–1972)
Bob Tyler (1973–1978)
Emory Bellard (1979–1985)
Rockey Felker (1986–1990)
Jackie Sherrill (1991–2003)
Sylvester Croom (2004–2008)
Dan Mullen (2009– )

Mississippi State Bulldogs head baseball coaches

William J. Jennings (1885–1888)
G. C. Creelman (1889–1896)
Irwin D. Sessums (1897)
No team (1898)
Irwin D. Sessums (1899)
Unknown (1901)
Sam W. Scales (1902)
Unknown (1903–1904)
S. A. Jehl (1905)
Bert Noblett (1906)
Forest P. Plass (1907–1908)
Dolly Stark (1909)
W. D. Chadwick (1910–1918)
Stanley L. Robinson (1919)
Dudy Noble (1920–1943)
No team (1944–1945)
Dudy Noble (1946–1947)
R. P. Patty (1948–1956)
Paul Gregory (1957–1974)
Jim Bragan (1975)
Ron Polk (1976–1997)
Pat McMahon (1998–2001)
Ron Polk (2002–2008)
John Cohen (2009–2016)
Andy Cannizaro (2017-)

Mississippi State Bulldogs athletic directors

Daniel S. Martin (1903–1907)
Fred Furman (1907–1908)
W. D. Chadwick (1909–1930)
Dudy Noble (1930–1934)
Athletic board control (1934–1935)
Ralph Sasse (1935–1936)
Paul Barrows Parker (1936–1937)
Dudy Noble (1937–1959)
Wade Walker (1959–1966)
Charles Shira (1967–1976)
Bob Tyler (1976–1979)
Carl Maddox (1979–1983)
Charley Scott (1983–1986)
Charlie Carr (1986–1987)
Larry Templeton (1987–2008)
Greg Byrne (2008–2010)
Scott Stricklin (2010–2016)
John Cohen (2016– )

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