T. L. Bayne
| T. L. Bayne | |
|---|---|
| Sport(s) | Football and baseball |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | July 25, 1865 |
| Died | August 31, 1934 (aged 69) |
| Playing career | |
| 1884 | Yale |
| Position(s) | Quarterback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football 1893 1893 1895 Baseball 1894–1895 |
Tulane Louisiana State (assistant) Tulane Tulane |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 4–4 |
| Statistics College Football Data Warehouse |
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Thomas Levingston Bayne, Jr. (July 25, 1865 – August 31, 1934) was an American college football coach and attorney. He served as the first head football coach at Tulane University in 1893 and returned for a second season in 1895. Bayne was responsible for helping to introduce the sport of football to the city of New Orleans with an inter-club game in 1892.[1] In 1893, he helped establish the intercollegiate program at Louisiana State University.[2]
Early life
A native of New Orleans, Bayne was born the son of Thomas Levingston Bayne, a reputable lawyer of the city, former Confederate Army lieutenant colonel, and son-in-law of Alabama governor John Gayle.[3][4] The younger Bayne attended Yale University and graduated as a member of the Class of 1887.[5] In 1884, he played on the Yale football team as a quarterback.[5] In 1888, Bayne joined his father's law firm, Denègre & Bayne.[4]
On December 31, 1892, Bayne and his brother, Hugh Aiken Bayne, organized the Southern Club to play a football game against a club from Birmingham, Alabama at Audubon Park in New Orleans.[1] The Southern Club won, 6–0, before a crowd of 2,000 spectators in cold and rainy conditions.[4]
Tulane
In 1893, he coached Tulane's first intercollegiate football team to a 1–2 record.[6] That season, he arranged for his team to play Louisiana State on November 25 at Sportsman's Park in New Orleans.[2] It was the initial season of football for LSU, and he made several trips to Baton Rouge to assist chemistry professor Charles E. Coates coach a team of cadets.[2][7] Before the game, Bayne discovered that Coates was not available for the contest.[8] Bayne agreed to coach both teams, and also handled ticket sales, construction of the goal posts, and officiating duties.[8] He was compensated with a green umbrella.[7][8] Tulane won, 34–0,[6] which prompted the Chicago Daily Tribune to remark in 1955 that "Bayne's Tulane team whipped Bayne's L. S. U. team."[9]
From 1894 to 1895, Bayne coached the Tulane baseball team alongside Jack Dowling.[10] After a one year hiatus in which Fred Sweet coached the football team, Bayne returned to take the helm for the 1895 season. He coached Tulane to a 3–2 record, and finished his tenure with a final record of 4–4.[6] That year, he also served as the team captain of the Southern Club.[11]
He died on August 31, 1934 and is interred at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans.[12]
References
- ^ a b Football reigns in the Big Easy, NewOrleans.com, August 4, 2009.
- ^ a b c Football memories, The Advocate (Baton Rouge, La.), August 30, 1987.
- ^ Collection Number: 01101; Collection Title: Bayne and Gayle Family Papers, 1798-1963, The Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina, retrieved December 3, 2010.
- ^ a b c Ned Hémard, Football In New Orleans New Year’s Day, 1890 (PDF), New Orleans Bar Association, 2008.
- ^ a b Parke H. Davis, Football, the American Intercollegiate Game, Volume 3, p. 263, C. Scribner's Sons, 1911.
- ^ a b c T.L. Bayne Records by Year, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved December 2, 2010.
- ^ a b Doug Lennox, Now You Know Football, p. 101, Dundurn Press Ltd., 2009, ISBN 1-55488-453-5.
- ^ a b c Floyd Connor, Football's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of the Great Game's Outrageous Characters, Fortunate Fumbles, and Other Oddities, p. 183, Brassey's, 2000.
- ^ In the WAKE of the NEWS, The Chicago Daily Tribune, April 1, 1955.
- ^ S. Derby Gisclair, Baseball at Tulane University, p. 7, Arcadia Publishing, 2007, ISBN 0-7385-4208-3.
- ^ Outing, Volume 25, p. 59, Outing Pub. Co., 1895.
- ^ Thomas L. Bayne, Find a Grave, April 16, 2003.
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