John "Clipper" Smith
American football head coach
1904 – 1984
Who was John "Clipper" Smith?
John Philip "Little Clipper" Smith was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played college football as a guard at the University of Notre Dame under Knute Rockne. Smith was a consensus All-American in 1927. He later served as the head coach at North Carolina State University from 1931 to 1933 and at Duquesne University from 1936 to 1938, compiling a career record of 28–24–5. Smith was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1975. He died on May 11, 1973 in West Hartford, Connecticut just before a National Football Foundation awards dinner that was to have honored him.
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- Born
- Dec 12, 1904
Hartford - Also known as
- John Smith
- Education
- University of Notre Dame
- Died
- 1984
West Hartford
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on July 23, 2013
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