MSMO Classic: Coach David Dunaway - Overcoming Adversity - a podcast by USM Center for Oral History

In this MSMO Classic episode from January 2016, we look back at the inspiring life and career of Coach David Dunaway.

Coach Dunaway grew up in Tylertown during the Great Depression. In this episode, he recalls how the town became his substitute family after his parents split up. Dunaway worked all through school to support himself and still found time to participate in sports. He credits the guidance he received from his coach and teachers for his decision to pursue a career in coaching/teaching at the junior high level.

Dunaway graduated high school in 1944 at the age of 17. He remembers playing for Mississippi State in the first college football game he ever saw, alongside State football legend, Shorty McWilliams.

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