Frank Howard (American football coach)
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| Sport(s) | Football, baseball, track & field |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 25, 1909 Barlow Bend, Alabama |
| Died | January 26, 1996 (aged 86) Clemson, South Carolina (resting place, Woodland Cemetery) |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1928–1930 | Alabama |
| Position(s) | Guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1931–1939 | Clemson (line) |
| 1940–1969 | Clemson |
| Baseball | |
| 1943 | Clemson |
| Track & field | |
| 1931–1939 | Clemson |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1940–1971 | Clemson |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 165–118–12 (football) 12–3 (baseball) |
| Bowls | 3–3 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2 SoCon (1940, 1948) 6 ACC (1956, 1958–1959, 1965–1967) |
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| Awards | |
| 2x ACC Coach of the Year (1958, 1966) | |
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College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1989 (profile) |
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Frank J. Howard (March 25, 1909 – January 26, 1996) was an American college football player and coach. He played college football for Alabama. After a career-ending injury, Howard joined the staff at Clemson College and became head coach in 1940. Howard coached the Clemson Tigers for 30 years, amassing the 15th most wins of any college football coach. He led Clemson to ten bowl games, an undefeated season in 1948, and several top-20 rankings during his tenure as head coach. During his stay at Clemson, Howard also oversaw the athletic department, ticket sales, and was an assistant coach for the baseball team. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, the South Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame and the Clemson Ring of Honor. The playing surface at Clemson's Memorial Stadium is named after him.
Howard was born at Barlow Bend, Alabama ("three wagon greasin's from Mobile"). He spent his early days on the farm playing mostly cow pasture baseball because there were not enough boys around the community for a football team. Howard said he left Barlow Bend walking barefoot on a barbed wire fence with a wildcat under each arm.
He graduated from Murphy High School in Mobile where he played football, baseball and basketball and served as president of both the junior and senior classes.
After finishing at Murphy, Howard entered the University of Alabama on an academic scholarship provided by the Birmingham News in the fall of 1927, and the 185-pounder played reserve guard his sophomore year. During his junior year he started every game but two, as an ankle injury sidelined him for the two games he missed. Again his senior year he was a regular.
Howard was president of the freshman class at Alabama, was member of Blue Key and president of the "A" Club.
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