Dewey Mayhew
American football coach
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| Intro | American football coach | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| was | Football Coach American football coach | |
| Work field | Sports | |
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| Birth | 21 December 1898 | |
| Death | 6 January 1974Marlin, Falls County, Texas, U.S.A. (aged 75 years) |
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Dewey Alexander Mayhew (December 21, 1898 – January 5, 1974) was an American football coach. He coached high school football at Marlin and Abilene, before serving as head coach at Texas A&I (now Texas A&M University–Kingsville) in 1940 and again from 1946 to 1953. Mayhew won to state championships at Abilene (1928, 1931) and left as the all-time winningest coach with a record of 97–36–11, but was passed in 2007 by current Abilene coach Steve Warren. He died of congestive heart failure in 1974.