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Thomas J Campbell (American football)

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Sport(s)
  
Football

1916–1919
  
North Carolina

1910–1911
  
Harvard

1922
  
Virginia


1913
  
Harvard (assistant)

Name
  
Thomas Campbell

1915
  
Bowdoin

Positions
  
Halfback

Thomas J. Campbell (American football)

Born
  
October 27, 1886 Gardner, Massachusetts (
1886-10-27
)

Role
  
American football head coach

Died
  
February 18, 1972, Natick, Massachusetts, United States

Thomas Joseph Campbell (October 27, 1886 – February 28, 1972) was an American banker and football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Bowdoin College in 1915, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1916 to 1919, and at the University of Virginia in 1922, compiling a career college football record of 16–16–2. Campbell played football at Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1912.

Campbell married Mildred Bell in 1920 in New York.

Coaching career

From 1916 to 1919, Campbell served as the head coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he compiled a 9–7–1 record. From 1917 to 1918, he served in the military during World War I while North Carolina's football program was suspended. In 1922, Campbell coached at the University of Virginia, tallying a mark of 4–4–1.

References

Thomas J. Campbell (American football) Wikipedia