Former Armuchee High School head football coach John Mullinax passed away Sunday morning in his home.

Mullinax was diagnosed with lung cancer in the fall of 2015 and underwent chemotherapy and radiation.

Coach Mullinax spent 44 years coaching high school football and finished his coaching career at Tellico Plains, TN after coaching more than 400 games. Mullinax spent 26 years at McMinn County, TN and was the head football coach for 19 of those years.

Mullinax also spent eight years as head football coach at Armuchee High School between stents as coach in Tellico Plains and McMinn County.

Early Sunday morning, after battling lung cancer the past six years, Mullinax, 75, died quietly at his home. He had attended a scrimmage Friday between McMinn County and Baylor, but he began to feel ill over the weekend.

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