{"id":2390,"date":"2023-11-24T16:59:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T22:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2023-11-24T16:59:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T22:59:34","slug":"john-e-cochran-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/1998\/john-e-cochran-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"John E. Cochran Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Born on May 22, 1944 near Dawson, Alabama, Cochran was a 1962 graduate of Crossville High School where he lettered four years in three sports. He made All County and All District in Basketball \u2013 All State as a junior, All State and All American as a senior. He was a three time Academic All SEC fullback and linebacker at Auburn University. He was chosen as a College Football Foundation and Hall of Fame Earl \u201cRed\u201d Blaik Scholar Athlete in 1965. Cochran played in the 1964 Orange Bowl, 1965 Liberty Bowl and 1965 Blue\/Gray game. He received a NCAA Post Graduate Fellowship and attended Auburn and the University of Texas, earning a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at the latter institution. He joined the faculty at Auburn in 1969 and while a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering also served as Associate Director of Athletics from 1981 to 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born on May 22, 1944 near Dawson, Alabama, Cochran was a 1962 graduate of Crossville High School where he lettered four years in three sports. He made All County and All District in Basketball \u2013 All State as a junior, All State and All American as a senior. He was a three time Academic All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-45","tag-crossville-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}