In the 1924–25 season, his team nearly doubled up Kentucky, 29–16, after being invited to play against the Wildcats in their brand new Alumni Gymnasium.
[1] Lannigan earlier coached "the Arkansas Flash," James Rector, in track and field events.
[1] While still a UVA student, Rector fell just six inches short of winning the 100 meter dash of the 1908 Olympic Games in London, England.
For many months he then underwent treatment at the United States Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia.
[1] For the last two months of his life he had returned to his home in Charlottesville and for his last week the University of Virginia Hospital.