George Clark College coach

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.

Personal facts

George Clark
Alias (AKA)Clark Potsy
Birth dateMarch 20, 1894
Birth place
Carthage Illinois , University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Date of deathNovember 08, 1972

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Coach

coached team
Detroit Lions
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL)
University of Minnesota
Butler University
University of Kansas
Michigan State University
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
overall record
40–45–7 (college football)
64–42–12 (NFL)
71–55–3 (college baseball)

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