Thomas Fred "Puny" Wilson (October 31, 1899 – May 24, 1969) 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 was an
All-American at
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. As of late 2021, T ...
in the early 1920s, playing for coach
Dana X. Bible
Dana Xenophon Bible (October 8, 1891 – January 19, 1980) was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Mississippi College (1913–1 ...
. Wilson graduated from Texas A&M in 1924 and was later inducted into school's hall of fame.
Puny and his brother,
Mule
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, are the only two brothers in the Texas A&M football Hall of Fame. Mule was the first Aggie to play in the
National Football League
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(NFL). He won three NFL championships, one on the
New York Giants
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and two with the
Green Bay Packers
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In 1938, Wilson became head football coach at
Sam Houston State University
Sam Houston State University (SHSU or Sam) is a public university in Huntsville, Texas. It was founded in 1879 and is the third-oldest public college or university in Texas. It is one of the first normal schools west of the Mississippi River and ...
in
Huntsville, Texas. He compiled a 50–49–6 overall record in 11 seasons. He also briefly coached
Dan Rather.
Wilson died after a cerebral hemorrhage in 1969. He was buried at Tyler Memorial Park in
Tyler, Texas
Tyler is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the largest city and county seat of Smith County, Texas, Smith County. It is also the largest city in Northeast Texas. With a 2020 census population of 105,995, Tyler was the List of cities in Texa ...
. In his later life he worked as a real estate agent.
[''Del Rio News-Herald'', May 26, 1969, Del Rio, Texas]
Head coaching record
Football
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1899 births
1969 deaths
American football ends
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