Mike Donahue

Mike Donahue
Mike Donahue
Donahue at Auburn in 1914
Sport(s) Football, basketball, baseball, tennis, track, soccer, golf
Biographical details
Born June 14, 1876(1876-06-14)
Place of birth County Kerry, Ireland
Died December 11, 1960(1960-12-11) (aged 84)
Place of death Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Playing career
Football
18991903

Yale
Position(s) Quarterback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
19041906
19081922
19231927
1934–?

Basketball
19051921

Baseball
19251926

Tennis
19461947

Golf
19441945

Auburn
Auburn
LSU
Spring Hill


Auburn


LSU


LSU


LSU
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
19291936
19371948
Spring Hill
LSU (intramural director)
Head coaching record
Overall 129548 (football)
7281 (basketball)
15153 (baseball)
07 (tennis)
Statistics
College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Football
1 National (1913)
2 SIAA (1913, 1919)
College Football Hall of Fame
Inducted in 1951 (profile)

Michael Joseph "Iron Mike" Donahue (June 14, 1876December 11, 1960) was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, baseball, tennis, track, soccer, and golf, and a college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Auburn University (19041906, 19081922), at Louisiana State University (19231927), and at Spring Hill College (1934–?). Donahue also coached basketball (19051921), baseball, track, and soccer (1912–?)[1] at Auburn and baseball (19251926) and tennis (19461947) at LSU. He was inducted as a coach into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951. Donahue Drive in Auburn, Alabama, on which JordanHare Stadium is located and the Tiger Walk takes place, is named in his honor.

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Playing career

Donahue played quarterback at Yale University, from which he graduated in 1903.

Coaching career

Auburn

Upon graduating college, Donahue became the tenth head coach of the Auburn Tigers football team beginning in 1904. His coaching career saw immediate success, as his first team went undefeated at 50. Donahue's Auburn teams won two Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association titles, in 1913 and 1919. His 1913 squad has been retroactively recognized as a national champion by the Billingsley Report. Donahue's 1913 and 1914 teams went undefeated, with the 1914 squad allowing zero points to be scored all year. From 1913 into 1915, Auburn went 22 consecutive games without a loss. Donahue's 1920 team averaged 36.9 points per game.

In 18 seasons coaching football at Auburn, Donahue amassed a record of 106355 and had three squads go undefeated with four more suffering only one loss. His .743 career winning percentage is the second highest in Auburn history, surpassing notable coaches including John Heisman, Ralph "Shug" Jordan, Pat Dye, Terry Bowden, and Tommy Tuberville.[2]

Donahue also served as athletic director, basketball coach, baseball coach, track coach, and soccer coach while at Auburn.[3] In 1905, Donahue initiated the school's first official varsity basketball team, which went 311, including victories over Georgia Tech and Tulane, a two point loss to the Columbus (Georgia) All-Stars, and a tie with the Birmingham Athletic Club. Under Donahue, basketball practice was a contact sport; a former player once lamented, "He never bothered calling fouls--said it slowed up the game."[4] In 1912, he coached Auburn's first soccer team.[1] By the beginning of the 1915 season, Auburn was only playing athletic clubs and prep schools and had yet to participate in an intercollegiate match, due to a lack of soccer programs at other Southern colleges.[5]

LSU

Donahue went on to become the seventeenth head football coach at LSU in 1923 and had a 23193 record over five seasons before retiring from coaching after the 1927 season. He also served briefly as the head coach of the LSU Tigers baseball team (19251926), compiling a record of 15153, and as the head mens tennis coach at LSU (19461947), tallying a mark of 07.

In 1934, Donahue reentered the coaching ranks at Spring Hill College, where he mentored his son, Mike, Jr.[6]

Head coaching record

Football

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Auburn Tigers (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (19041906)
1904 Auburn 70 40
1905 Auburn 44 24
1906 Auburn 151 05
Auburn Tigers (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (19081921)
1908 Auburn 61 41
1909 Auburn 62 32
1910 Auburn 61 60
1911 Auburn 521 301
1912 Auburn 711 411
1913 Auburn 80 70 1st
1914 Auburn 801 501
1915 Auburn 62 42
1916 Auburn 62 52
1917 Auburn 621 51
1918 Auburn 25 02
1919 Auburn 81 51 1st
1920 Auburn 72 32
1921 Auburn 53 32
Auburn Tigers (Southern Conference) (1922)
1922 Auburn 82 21 T6th
Auburn: 105355 65263
LSU Tigers (Southern Conference) (19231927)
1923 LSU 351 03 19th
1924 LSU 54 03 T19th
1925 LSU 531 021 T17th
1926 LSU 63 33 T10th
1927 LSU 441 231 11th
LSU: 23193 5142
Total: 129548

References

  1. ^ a b Michael Donahue (1912). "Glomerata". In C. E. Sauls; C. W. Shelverton; J. K. Newell et al.. Auburn, AL: Alabama Polytechnic Institute. p. 230. http://diglib.auburn.edu/cgi-bin/gloms/docviewer.pl?did=%2F1912&seq=230&frames=0&view=100. Retrieved 21 March 2011. 
  2. ^ "Auburn Coaching Records". College Football Data Warehouse. http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/sec/auburn/coaching_records.php. Retrieved April 7, 2010. 
  3. ^ "Tradition, History, and Legend". Auburn Official Athletic Site. CBS Interactive. http://auburntigers.cstv.com/trads/aub-trads-uniquely.html. Retrieved April 7, 2010. 
  4. ^ "Mickey Logue and Jack Simms, Auburn: The Lovliest Village Photograph Collection, RG 798". Auburn University Libraries. http://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/find-aid/798/0000001d.htm. Retrieved April 7, 2010. 
  5. ^ J. B. Overstreet; Carl Montgomery; Paul Bidez et al., eds (1915). "Glomerata". Auburn, AL: Alabama Polytechnic Institute. p. 192. http://diglib.auburn.edu/cgi-bin/gloms/docviewer.pl?did=%2F1915&seq=192&frames=0&view=100. Retrieved 22 March 2011. 
  6. ^ Mike Donahue Coaches Again, St. Petersburg Times, Nov 14, 1934.

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