Sport(s) Football, baseball 1920 Michigan Agricultural Positions Quarterback 1919 Illinois (assistant) Role American football player | 1915–1916 Illinois Name George Clark 1914–1915 Illinois 1921–1925 Kansas | |
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Born March 20, 1894
Carthage, Illinois ( 1894-03-20 ) Died November 8, 1972, La Jolla, San Diego, California, United States Past teams coached Detroit Lions (1940–1940), Detroit Lions (1931–1936) | ||
George M. "Potsy" Clark (March 20, 1894 – November 8, 1972) was an American football and baseball player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Michigan Agricultural College, now Michigan State University, (1920), the University of Kansas (1921–1925), Butler University (1927–1929), and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (1945, 1948), compiling a career college football record of 40–45–7. Clark was also the head coach of the National Football League's Portsmouth Spartans/Detroit Lions (1931–1936, 1940) and Brooklyn Dodgers (1937–1938), amassing a career NFL mark of 64–42–12. Clark's 1935 Detroit Lions team won the NFL Championship. From 1945 to 1953, Clark served as the athletic director at Nebraska.
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