Vernon E. "Skip" McCain (June 4, 1908 – April 5, 1993) was an

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and

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coach and mathematics professor. He served as the head football coach at Maryland State College—now known as the

University of Maryland Eastern Shore University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) is a public historically black land-grant research university in Princess Anne, Maryland. It is part of the University System of Maryland. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High r ...

—from 1948 to 1963, compiling a record of 100–21–5. McCain was inducted into the

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in 2006. McCain was born in

Marietta, Oklahoma Marietta is a city and county seat in Love County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,626 at the 2010 census, a 7.4 percent increase from the figure of 2,445 in 2000. Marietta is part of the Ardmore, Oklahoma, Micropolitan Stati ...

. He played

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as a

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at Langston University in 1930. Prior to being hired at Maryland State in 1948, McCain was an assistant coach at Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State College—now known as

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. He died on April 5, 1993, at his home in

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Head coaching record

Football

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