Byrd Douglas

Byrd Douglas (August 28, 1894 – August 11, 1965) was a college baseball and football coach as well as a judge.[1]

Byrd Douglas
Biographical details
Born(1894-08-28)August 28, 1894
Nashville, Tennessee
DiedAugust 11, 1965(1965-08-11) (aged 70)
Wilson County, Tennessee
Alma materPrinceton University
Playing career
Baseball
1915–1916Princeton
Position(s)Catcher
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1922Cumberland
Baseball
1920–1921Vanderbilt
1928–1930Princeton
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1922Cumberland
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
Cumberland Athletics Hall of Fame

Early years

Byrd Douglas was born on August 28, 1894 in Nashville, Tennessee to William "Byrd" Douglas and Adelaide "Addie" Wharton Gaines. He attended Wallace University School of Nashville, Tennessee and Vanderbilt University. Douglas attended Vanderbilt in 1911 and 1912. He then attended Princeton University and was a star catcher on the baseball team.[2]

Coaching career

Douglas coached the 1921 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) champion Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team.[3] The Vanderbilt yearbook claimed the season's success was "due almost entirely to one man," namely Douglas.[4] Douglas was athletic director and football and baseball coach at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee the year after. That same year he wrote The Science of Baseball.[5] He was inducted into the Cumberland Athletics Hall of Fame in 1991.[6]

Douglas was also a judge. Upon retirement he was designated Chairman Emeritus of the Conference of Trial Judges of Davidson County, Tennessee.[1] Douglas wrote the book Steamboatin' On The Cumberland in December 1961.[7]

References
  1. "Judge Byrd Douglas" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-01-22. Retrieved 2015-01-22.
  2. Neilson Poe. "Athletics". Princeton Alumni Weekly. 21: 838.
  3. Bill Traughber. "The Historic 1921 VU Baseball Team". Archived from the original on 2015-07-15. Retrieved 2015-01-22.
  4. Vanderbilt University (1922). The Commodore. pp. 135–137.
  5. Byrd Douglas (1922). The Science of Baseball.
  6. "Hall of Fame".
  7. Byrd Douglas (1961). Steamboatin' On The Cumberland.
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