Bill Coughlan
American-football player
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| Intro | American-football player | |||
| was | American football player | |||
| Work field | Sports | |||
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| Birth | 1899 | |||
| Death | 5 July 1952Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA (aged 53 years) | |||
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William M. Coughlan (1899 – July 5, 1952) was an American college football player and track athlete and coach. He played football and ran track at Sewanee: The University of the South and was inducted into the school's sports hall of fame in 2005. Coughlan was a halfback and quarterback on the Sewanee Tigers football team and captain of the 1920 squad. He returned an interception 70 yards for a touchdown against Alabama in 1922. He was second-team on the all-time Sewanee football team. Coughlan coached track at the University of Chattanooga in 1930, and later coached at Notre Dame prep.