Milburn Smith

Milburn Albert "Catfish" Smith (July 24, 1912 – November 29, 1994) was an American football and basketball coach in the state of Texas.

Smith began his coaching career in rural West Texas, where in 1936 he led Carey High, a school with less than one hundred enrollment and no basketball court, to a fourth-place finish in the Texas Schoolboy state basketball tournament, including a twenty-six-game winning streak.

He followed that with a 50–2 season and the state championship, back when the smallest schools competed against the largest for the coveted title.

In 1948 he became the only Texas high school coach to ever go undefeated in football and basketball in the same academic year, as Mt.

He guided the Lions to a 30–2–1 record, including a 29-game winning streak starting in October 1951 and ending in 1953 that brought them invitations to the 1953 and 1954 Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, Florida.