Fred Alvin Taylor (April 30, 1920 – July 21, 2013) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

player and coach. He served as head coach at

Texas Christian University Texas Christian University (TCU) is a private research university in Fort Worth, Texas. It was established in 1873 by brothers Addison and Randolph Clark as the Add-Ran Male & Female College. It is affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples ...

from 1967 to 1970, compiling a record of 15–25–1 before he was fired following the 1970 season.

Early life and playing career

Taylor was native of

Denison, Texas Denison is a city in Grayson County, Texas, Grayson County, Texas, United States. It is south of the Texas–Oklahoma border. The population was 22,682 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. Denison is part of the Texoma region and is one ...

. He played

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in 1940 and 1941 before entering the

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to serve during

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. Taylor returned to TCU after the war and served as the football team's captain in 1946.

Death

Taylor died on July 21, 2013.

Head coaching record

College

References

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