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20–40–1 (baseball) | bowl_record = 4–2 | tournament_record = | CFbDWID = 2298 | championships = Football 1 National (1953) 1 Big Six (1946) 1 SoCon (1951) 2 ACC (1953, 1955) | awards = Football AFCA Coach of the Year (1953) 2x ACC Coach of the Year (1953, 1955) | coaching_records = | CFBHOF_year = 1984 | CFBHOF_id = 50064 }} James M. "Big Jim" Tatum (July 22, 1913 – July 23, 1959) was an American football and baseball player and coach. Tatum served as the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1942, 1956–1958), the University of Oklahoma (1946), and the University of Maryland, College Park (1947–1955), compiling a career college football record of 100–35–7.〔 His 1953 Maryland team won a national title. As a head coach, he employed the split-T formation with great success, a system he had learned as an assistant under Don Faurot at the Iowa Pre-Flight School during World War II. Tatum was also the head baseball coach at Cornell University from 1937 to 1939, tallying a mark of 20–40–1. Tatum's career was cut short by his untimely death in 1959. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1984. ==Early life and college playing career== Tatum was born in McColl, South Carolina on July 22, 1913.〔(Jim "Big Jim" Tatum ), College Football Hall of Fame, National Football Foundation, retrieved August 21, 2010.〕 He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he played college football as a tackle under head coach Carl Snavely. Tatum was named to the All-Southern Conference team as a senior in 1935.〔(Jim Tatum Rated 'Coach of the Year' ), ''Eugene Register-Guard'', October 9, 1942.〕 Tatum played minor league baseball as a catcher for the Kinston Eagles.〔(Kinston Has a Rich Tradition in Baseball ), Kinston Eagles, retrieved May 30, 2011.〕 The 6 feet, 3 inches and 230 pounds Tatum had the nicknames "Big Jim"〔Jim Fletcher, (''The Die-Hard Fan's Guide to Sooner Football'' ), p. 87.〕 and "Sunny Jim".〔(''Newsweek, Volume 54'' ), p. 47, Newsweek, Inc., 1959.〕 In September 1935, Tatum participated in training camp with the New York Giants of the National Football League at Blue Hill Country Club.〔(Tatum Joins Football Giants ), ''The New York Times'', p. 31, September 12, 1935.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jim Tatum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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