Jim Tatum
James M. "Big Jim" Tatum (July 22, 1913 – July 23, 1959) was an American football and baseball player and coach. Tatum served as the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1942, 1956–1958), the University of Oklahoma (1946), and the University of Maryland, College Park (1947–1955), compiling a career college football record of 100–35–7. His 1953 Maryland team won a national title. As a head coach, he employed the split-T formation with great success, a system he had learned as an assistant under Don Faurot at the Iowa Pre-Flight School during World War II. Tatum was also the head baseball coach at Cornell University from 1937 to 1939, tallying a mark of 20–40–1. Tatum's career was cut short by his untimely death in 1959. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1984.
Bill Walker (American football)
A native of West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, Walker attended Munhall High School, where he played interscholastic football as an end. He then went on to college at the University of Maryland where he played on the varsity football team as an end from 1953 to 1955. During this time, the team was coached by Jim Tatum, who was the school's most successful coach of the modern era. In 1953, the Terrapins won the national championship, and Walker was named to the All-ACC second team. He was named "lineman of the week" for his performance in the 21–0 victory over Alabama that season.