Congratulations to Carlene Shackelford, the first to identify Jim Caudill as Mystery Person #58.  This week marks the 60th anniversary of Caudill's first game as head coach of the Hazard High School football team.  The game between Hazard and Evarts was played on September 8th 1960. Hazard won the game 26 to 7 on the old H.B.I. Field, later known as Collins Field.  Some of the players on his first Hazard team included Bob Lutes, Piercy Turner, Andrew Luttrell, Gurney Luttrell, Jack Hagan, Glenn Maggard, Charlie Hines, John Chaney, Bill Cook, Bob Lutes, Don Mosley and Jimmy Clifton.

Jim Caudill was a native of Newport, Kentucky and graduated from Newport High School.  He attended Morehead State University from 1939 until 1942.  He enlisted in the Marine Corp for three years during World War II.  He resumed his studies in 1945 and received his A.B. Degree at Morehead in 1946.  Caudill became head football coach at Louisa in 1946 and remained there until 1950.  It was in 1950 that Caudill was named head football coach at Hazard High School.  Caudill, along with his assistant coach Tony Salvato, was heard on a weekly sports show on WKIC in 1950.  The show's host, Dick Goodlette, talked to the coaches about the past and upcoming games.  Buddy Marcum served as Hazard's backfield coach and Paul Wright was the line coach when Caudill first joined the team. The football squad under Caudill won 70 games and lost only 23, tying four, a winning average of almost 70%.  He produced four All State football players while coaching in Hazard: Don Sinor, Bob Lindon, Cat Sizemore and Charles Heinz.  Caduill aquired a M.A. Degree at UK in 1954  In 1960 he replaced H.M. Wosely as principal of Hazad High School.  Caudill later was the Superintendent of the Hazard City Schools.   Harold Lloyd Baker of Modesto,California, also identified Mystery Person #58