John Lewis "Hurri" Cain (November 17, 1908 – August 18, 1977) was an American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 player, coach of football, baseball

Baseball

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, and tennis

Tennis

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, and college athletics administrator in the United States

United States

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. He played college football

College football

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 at the University of Alabama

University of Alabama

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, where he was a three-time All-American

College Football All-America Team

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 and a member of the 1930 national championship team that won the Rose Bowl

1931 Rose Bowl

The 1931 Rose Bowl was the 17th Rose Bowl game, an American post-season college football game that was played on New Year's Day 1931 in Pasadena, California. It featured two undefeated teams, the Alabama Crimson Tide against the...

. Cain served as the head football coach at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

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, from 1937 to 1941 and in 1946, compiling a record of 33–19–5. He was also the head baseball coach at Southwestern Louisiana from 1942 to 1944. In 1947, Cain moved to the University of Mississippi

University of Mississippi

The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research university located in Oxford, Mississippi. Founded in 1844, the school is composed of the main campus in Oxford, four branch campuses located in Booneville, Grenada, Tupelo, and Southaven as well as the...

 to serve as backfield coach for the football team under Johnny Vaught

Johnny Vaught

John Howard Vaught was an American college football coach at the University of Mississippi from 1947 to 1970 and again in 1973....

. He was also the head tennis coach at Ole Miss from 1957 to 1973. Cain was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame

College Football Hall of Fame

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as a player in in 1973.

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