| Shirley Majors | |
| Birth Date: | 7 May 1913 |
| Birth Place: | Moore County, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Westmoreland, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Coach Sport1: | Football |
| Coach Years2: | 1943–1949 |
| Coach Team2: | Moore County HS (TN) |
| Coach Years3: | 1950–1956 |
| Coach Team3: | Huntland HS (TN) |
| Coach Years4: | 1957–1977 |
| Coach Team4: | Sewanee |
| Coach Sport5: | Baseball |
| Coach Years6: | 1960–1970 |
| Coach Team6: | Sewanee |
| Overall Record: | 93–74–5 (college football) 105–110 (college baseball) 108–24–2 (high school football) |
| Championships: | Football 6 CAC (1963–1965, 1967, 1975–1976) |
Shirley Inman Majors (May 7, 1913 – April 5, 1981) was an American football and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Huntland High School in Franklin County, Tennessee from 1949 to 1956 and at from 1957 to 1977. At Sewanee, he compiled a record of 93–74–5. His total of 93 wins is the most of any head coach in the history of the Sewanee Tigers football program.
Majors was the patriarch of a football family. His sons included two All-Americans in football at the University of Tennessee, Bobby and Johnny, Bill, who was an assistant at Tennessee until his death in an auto accident in 1965, Larry, who played for Sewanee at wingback, and Joe, who played at Florida State University and with the Houston Oilers of the National Football League.[1] [2] [3] The Majors athletes were inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame as a family in 1966.[4]
Majors died on April 5, 1981, after collapsing at the Meadowbrook Game Farm near Westmoreland, Tennessee.[5]