Whit Taylor was a star all-Southeastern Conference quarterback for the Vanderbilt University football team from 1979-1982. He was the star quarterback on the 1982 team that finished 8-4 and played in theHall of Fame Bowl. That season is Vanderbilt's most recent winning season. Taylor was a star player from Shelbyville, Tennessee, before he attended and played for Vanderbilt in Nashville. He was and still is a Nashville and Commodore hometown hero and fan favorite, in that he is from middle Tennessee.

After attempting to begin a career in the National Football League, he was a backup quarterback for the Michigan Panthers of the United States Football League and then became quarterback of the Denver Dynamite of the Arena Football League in 1987, and in that year became the first player ever to pass for ten touchdowns in any professional game of American football, a record which stood for over a decade. He worked as a high school football coach and teacher in the Middle Tennessee area at Shelbyville's Central High School, his high school alma mater. In 2006, he left coaching to go into educational administration. He served as the Harris Middle School Assistant Principal for a few years. He is currently Assistant Principal and athletic director of Central High School.

[edit] External links

• "Taylor remembers the last Vandy bowl team"
• AFL stats

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