In 1921 as a senior, the 5-foot-9, 175-pound triple-threat guided his team to the unthinkable – a stunning 6-0 victory over a Harvard squad – unbeaten in 25 games since 1918.
He had been a three-time All-American quarterback for the ‘Praying Colonels’ of tiny Centre College of Danville, Kentucky. Beginning in 1934, he moved to Indiana, where he’d remain for 14 years. I can tell you truthfully I have been sweating blood for ten days now, making my decision to accept this position with the Lions.”Ī college football legend, McMillin had spent 26 seasons as a college football coach, first at Centenary College in Louisiana, then at Geneva College in Pennsylvania, then at Kansas State. “Most of my friends down through the years have been college men. “Leaving college football after all these years pulls at my heartstrings,” McMillin told the Associated Press. The lone blemish was a 7-7 tie with Northwestern in week two of the season. His Hoosiers had compiled the school’s first-ever undefeated season in 1945, ranked fourth in the nation, and had won the Big Nine Conference (as it was known then) with a 9-0-1 record. He still had seven years left on a 10-year contract he had signed with the university, and while confident IU’s board of trustees wouldn’t stand in the way of his move, he was torn. MUSKEGON–It was February 1948, when Alvin Nugent ‘Bo’ McMillin flew to Detroit to negotiate a new life.Ī contract with the Detroit Lions would more than double his current salary at Indiana University, where he served as the school’s football coach and athletic director.
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