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Don Faurot was born on 23 June, 1902 in Mountain Grove, Missouri, U.S., is an American football and basketball player, coach and administrator. Discover Don Faurot's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 93 years old?

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Age 93 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 23 June, 1902
Birthday 23 June
Birthplace Mountain Grove, Missouri, U.S.
Date of death 19 October, 1995
Died Place Columbia, Missouri, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1902

Donald Burrows Faurot (June 23, 1902 – October 19, 1995) was an American football and basketball player, coach, and college athletics administrator best known for his eight-decade association with the University of Missouri.

Faurot was born in Mountain Grove, Missouri, on June 23, 1902, to parents Frederick W. Faurot and Charlotte Burrows Faurot.

He lost two fingers on his right hand in a boyhood farming accident, yet still became an accomplished multi-sport athlete.

Faurot's association with the University of Missouri started when he was a young boy who would sneak into Rollins Field to watch the Tigers play and practice.

He was the eldest of four brothers to win a football letter at Missouri.

1920

He lettered in three sports at Missouri in the early 1920s: in football, as a halfback, basketball and baseball.

Faurot is credited with inventing the split-T formation.

1922

Faurot was a three-sport letterman from 1922 to 1924.

A lightweight 145-pound fullback in football, he also captained the basketball team and was an infielder in baseball.

He was a member of FarmHouse fraternity while attending the University of Missouri.

1925

He was also the head basketball coach at Kirksville State from 1925 to 1934, tallying a mark of 92–74.

1926

He served as the head football coach at Northeast Missouri State Teachers College—commonly known at the time as Kirksville State Teachers College and now known as Truman State University—from 1926 to 1934 and at Missouri from 1935 to 1942 and again from 1946 to 1956.

After college, Faurot was appointed head coach at Kirksville State Teachers College (now Truman State University), where he spent nine years, from 1926 through 1934, with a record of 63 wins, 13 losses and 3 ties.

As a graduate student in agriculture in 1926, Faurot helped lay the sod for Missouri's new Memorial Stadium in 1926.

1927

During the run the team was the MIAA champion in 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1933 and 1934.

He also coached the basketball team to the 1927 MIAA championship.

1932

From 1932 to 1934, his teams had a 26–0 record, the best small-college record in the country.

1933

In 1933, he led KSTC to a 26–6 win against Missouri in Columbia.

This win, along with his MIAA conference titles in 1933 and 1934 led to the offering of the head coaching position at Missouri following the 1934 season.

Even while coaching at Kirksville State, Faurot remained close to Mizzou.

1935

Faurot was the athletic director at Missouri from 1935 to 1942 and again from 1946 to 1967.

In 1935, Faurot returned to his alma mater as head coach and athletic director, titles he retained until 1956 except for three years of service in the United States Navy during World War II.

At Missouri, he took over a team that had won only two games in three years and with the athletic program over $500,000 in debt.

1939

His 1939 team, featuring All-American Paul Christman, won Faurot's first Big Six Conference title and a bid to the Orange Bowl.

1941

His major contributions were two-fold: retiring the $500,000 debt through scheduling Ohio State over 9 of 11 years (losing all of them) and to football through his innovation of the Split-T offense at Mizzou in 1941.

In the post-World War II era, many coaches adopted the Faurot formation—most notably, Bud Wilkinson and Jim Tatum, who learned the offense first-hand while serving as his assistant coaches with the Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks during World War II.

More than 60 years later, it is still in vogue today at all levels of football.

Several of football's most notable formations—the Wishbone, Wingbone, Veer or I-attack and others—utilize Faurot's option play as their basic concept.

His 1941 team also won the Big 6 title after a 45–6 drubbing of Kansas, and played in the Sugar Bowl.

1943

During World War II, Faurot coached the Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks in 1943 and the football team at Naval Air Station Jacksonville in 1944.

1956

After a last-second win against arch-rival Kansas in 1956, he stepped down as head coach to concentrate on his duties as athletic director.

Under him, the Tigers won three conference titles and went to four bowl games.

1961

He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1961.

1967

When he retired as athletic director in 1967, the program was in the black and Memorial Stadium's capacity had doubled to more than 50,000 through five different expansions.

Faurot is a member of the National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame, the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, the University of Missouri Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame, the Orange Bowl Hall of Honor, the Blue-Gray Game Hall of Fame, past president of the American Football Coaches Association, and recipient of the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award for his distinguished service in the advancement of the best interests of football.

Though he stepped down as athletic director in 1967, Faurot never really found a way to retire.

He maintained an office at the Tom Taylor Building where he spent several hours nearly every day, and was a regular attendee at football practice until shortly before his death.

1972

The playing surface at Missouri's Memorial Stadium was named Faurot Field in his honor in 1972.

In 1972, the playing surface at Memorial Stadium was officially named Faurot Field in his honor.

2013

In 19 years as the Tiger football coach, Faurot's record was 101 wins, 79 losses and 10 ties, a record that remained unmatched until coach Gary Pinkel passed him in 2013.