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He coached eleven All-American players in his eleven seasons at LSU. Garland was a speed coach under Skip Bertman for the LSU baseball team. In 1975, he was speed and conditioning coach for the Dallas Cowboys. In 1976, Garland was the spring training roommate of Tommy Lasorda, then the Dodgers’ third-base coach under manager Walter Alston. He coached Baton Rouge High School to the Class 3A state title in track and field in 1969; at the time 3A was the highest classification. He was assistant coach to E. W. Foy for the Baton Rough High [[basketball]] team, which prevailed in the 1968 Class 3A state championship. One month after leaving his position as an assistant track coach at LSU, Garland was named head coach of the new track and field program at Parkview Baptist in Baton Rouge.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/sports/2016/01/11/lsu-legend-boots-garland-passes-away-82/78649310/|title=LSU legend Boots Garland passes away at 82|publisher=''The Lafayette Daily Advertiser''|date=January 11, 2016|accessdate=January 14, 2016}}</ref>
He coached eleven All-American players in his eleven seasons at LSU. Garland was a speed coach under Skip Bertman for the LSU baseball team. In 1975, he was speed and conditioning coach for the Dallas Cowboys. In 1976, Garland was the spring training roommate of Tommy Lasorda, then the Dodgers’ third-base coach under manager Walter Alston. He coached Baton Rouge High School to the Class 3A state title in track and field in 1969; at the time 3A was the highest classification. He was assistant coach to E. W. Foy for the Baton Rough High [[basketball]] team, which prevailed in the 1968 Class 3A state championship. One month after leaving his position as an assistant track coach at LSU, Garland was named head coach of the new track and field program at Parkview Baptist in Baton Rouge.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/sports/2016/01/11/lsu-legend-boots-garland-passes-away-82/78649310/|title=LSU legend Boots Garland passes away at 82|publisher=''The Lafayette Daily Advertiser''|date=January 11, 2016|accessdate=January 14, 2016}}</ref>
In 1991, Garland was cast as Coach Pendleton, the high school coach of basketball great [[Pete Maravich]] in the film, ''The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0307558/bio|title=Murrell Garland|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=January 14, 2016}]</ref>
Garland had a history of congestive heart failure. He died at his Baton Rouge home at the age of eighty-two. Survivors are his wife, the former JoAnne Schoonmaker; four daughters and their husbands, Alison Dias Edmonson, Dana Dias Sutton, Mitzi Dias Barber, and Laura Dias Murray, and ten grandchildren. Garland embraced [[Jesus Christ]] late in life. He was active in River Church South, established by the First [[Presbyterian]] Church of Baton Rouge, where Garland's services were held. He is interred at Resthaven Cemetery.<ref name=obit/>
Garland had a history of congestive heart failure. He died at his Baton Rouge home at the age of eighty-two. Survivors are his wife, the former JoAnne Schoonmaker; four daughters and their husbands, Alison Dias Edmonson, Dana Dias Sutton, Mitzi Dias Barber, and Laura Dias Murray, and ten grandchildren. Garland embraced [[Jesus Christ]] late in life. He was active in River Church South, established by the First [[Presbyterian]] Church of Baton Rouge, where Garland's services were held. He is interred at Resthaven Cemetery.<ref name=obit/>