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Alvin Nugent “Bo” McMillin |
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Coaching ∙ Geneva |
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  Sports old timers remember Bo McMillan as the football coach at Geneva College in the
brief glory years of 1925 to 1927, when his teams compiled a 20-5-1
record. His most famous win at Geneva was the 16-9 upset of Harvard
in 1926. That legendary victory was a return performance that
haunted the Harvards. During his playing days at tiny Centre College
in Kentucky, Bo had led the Praying Colonels to a stunning 6-0 upset
over Harvard in 1921. Fittingly, McMillin scored the only touchdown
of the game on a 35-yard run. The Colonels won 26 games and lost
only three during Bo’s three seasons as a Centre College
player. Geneva lost to Cornell that season in a 6-0 thriller that
narrowly missed being another upset. Bo’s 1927 Geneva cleaters
racked up a fine 8-0-1 record. Before coming to Geneva, Bo
coached at Centennary College in Louisiana, where his teams won 25
games and lost only three. After leaving Geneva, he compiled a
27-21-1 record at Kansas State University, then coached at
Indiana University from 1934 to 1947, guiding the formerly weak
Hoosiers to a 63-42-11 record over fourteen seasons. He left Indiana
to coach the Detroit Lions on the National Football League for three
seasons from 1948 to 1950. In February 1951 Bo signed a
contract to coach the Philadelphia Eagles but ill health soon ended
his career. He underwent an operation in October 1951 and died in
March 1952 at age 57. |
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