Sport(s) Football, baseball 1900 Texas 1896–1898 Chicago Name Maurice Clarke | 1899 Texas Role American football player 1900 Western Reserve Positions Quarterback | |
Born May 2, 1877
Bellevue, Nebraska ( 1877-05-02 ) Overall 10–5–2 (football)
14–2–1 (baseball) |
Maurice Gordon Clarke (born May 2, 1877) was an American football and baseball player and coach. The Omaha, Nebraska native served as head football coach at the University of Texas at Austin in 1899, at Western Reserve University—now a part of Case Western Reserve University—in 1900, and at Washington University in St. Louis, compiling a career college football record of 15–6–2. He was also the head baseball coach at Texas in the spring of 1900, tallying a mark of 14–2–1. Clarke was a graduate of the University of Chicago and played quarterback for the Chicago Maroons from 1896 to 1898 teams under Amos Alonzo Stagg. He also lettered in baseball at Chicago.
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