George Clark (American football coach)

George Clark
Biographical details
Clark from 1946 Cornhusker
Sport(s)	Football, baseball
Born	(1894-03-20)March 20, 1894 Carthage, Illinois
Died	November 8, 1972(1972-11-08) (aged 78) La Jolla, California
Playing career
Football
1914–1915	Illinois
Baseball
1915–1916	Illinois
Position(s)	Quarterback (football)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1919	Illinois (assistant)
1920	Michigan Agricultural
1921–1925	Kansas
1926	Minnesota (associate HC)
1927–1929	Butler
1931–1936	Port. Spartans/Det. Lions
1937–1938	Brooklyn Dodgers
1940	Detroit Lions
1945, 1948	Nebraska
Baseball
1920	Illinois
1921	Michigan Agricultural
1922–1925	Kansas
1927	Minnesota
1928	Butler
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1927–1930	Butler
1948–1953	Nebraska
Head coaching record
Overall	40–45–7 (college football) 64–42–12 (NFL) 71–55–3 (college baseball)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse

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.^[1]

Head coaching record

College football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Michigan Agricultural Aggies (Independent) (1920)
1920	Michigan Agricultural	4–6
Michigan Agricultural:		4–6
Kansas Jayhawks (Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1921–1925)
1921	Kansas	4–3	3–3	5th
1922	Kansas	3–4–1	1–3–1	6th
1923	Kansas	5–0–3	3–0–3	2nd
1924	Kansas	2–5–1	2–4–1	7th
1925	Kansas	2–5–1	2–5–1	8th
Kansas:		16–17–6	11–15–6
Butler Bulldogs (Independent) (1927–1929)
1927	Butler	4–3–1
1928	Butler	6–2
1929	Butler	4–4
Butler:		14–9–1
Nebraska Cornhuskers (Big Six Conference) (1945)
1945	Nebraska	4–5	2–3	4th
Nebraska Cornhuskers (Big Seven Conference) (1948)
1948	Nebraska	2–8	2–4	T–5th
Nebraska:		6–13	4–7
Total:		40–45–7

References

↑ AP (November 10, 1972). "POTSY CLARK DEAD, LIONS' FIRST COACH". The New York Times. Retrieved July 7, 2010.

External links

George Clark at the College Football Data Warehouse

Illinois Fighting Illini starting quarterbacks

Clark (1914–15)
Macomber (1916)
Sternaman (1921)
Wells (1970–72)
Kopatz (1975)
Steger (1975–77)
McCray (1977)
Weiss (1978–79)
McCullough (1978–79)
McAvoy (1979)
D. Wilson (1980)
Eason (1981–82)
Trudeau (1983–85)
Lamb (1986)
Menkhausen (1986–87)
Mohr (1987)
Freund (1987)
George (1988–89)
Verduzco (1990–92)
Kinney (1992)
J. Johnson (1993–95)
S. Weaver (1993–96)
Hoekstra (1996–98)
Lavery (1997)
K. Johnson (1997–98)
Kittner (1998–2001)
Ward (2000, 02–03)
Beutjer (2002–04)
Pazan (2003–04)
Bower (2004)
Brasic (2005–06)
Williams (2006–2009)
Charest (2009)
McGee (2009)
Scheelhaase (2010–2013)
O'Toole (2012, 2014)
Lunt (2014–present)

Illinois Fighting Illini head baseball coaches

No coach (1879–1881) No team (1882) No coach (1883–1891) Edward K. Hall (1892–1894) No coach (1895) George Huff (1896–1919) George Clark (1920) Carl Lundgren (1921–1934) Wally Roettger (1935–1951) Lee Eilbracht (1952–1978) Tom Dedin (1979–1987) Augie Garrido (1988–1990) Itch Jones (1990–2005) Dan Hartleb (2006– )

Michigan State Spartans head football coaches

Henry Keep (1897–1898) Charles Bemies (1899–1900) George Denman (1901–1902) Chester Brewer (1903–1910) John Macklin (1911–1915) Dutch Sommer (1916) Chester Brewer (1917) George Gauthier (1918) Chester Brewer (1919) George Clark (1920) Albert Barron (1921–1922) Ralph H. Young (1923–1927) Harry Kipke (1928) Jim Crowley (1929–1932) Charlie Bachman (1933–1946) Clarence Munn (1947–1953) Duffy Daugherty (1954–1972) Denny Stolz (1973–1975) Darryl Rogers (1976–1979) Muddy Waters (1980–1982) George Perles (1983–1994) Nick Saban (1995–1999) Bobby Williams (2000–2002) Morris Watts # (2002) John L. Smith (2003–2006) Mark Dantonio (2007– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim coach.

Michigan State Spartans head baseball coaches

No coach (1884–1886)
R. Carpenter (1887–1888)
No coach (1889–1895)
Robert T. Gale (1896–1898)
Charles Ferguson (1899)
Charles Bemies (1900–1901)
George Denman (1902–1903)
Chester Brewer (1904–1910)
John Macklin (1911–1915)
John Morrissey (1916–1917)
Chester Brewer (1918–1920)
George Clark (1921)
John Morrissey (1922)
Mysterious Walker (1923–1924)
John Kobs (1925–1943)
No team (1944)
John Kobs (1945–1963)
Danny Litwhiler (1964–1982)
Thomas W. Smith (1983–1995)
Ted Mahan (1996–2005)
David Grewe (2006–2008)
Jake Boss (2009– )

Kansas Jayhawks head football coaches

Will Coleman (1890)
Edwin Mortimer Hopkins (1891)
A. W. Shepard (1892–1893)
Hector Cowan (1894–1896)
Wylie G. Woodruff (1897–1898)
Fielding H. Yost (1899)
L. W. Boynton (1900)
John H. Outland (1901)
Arthur Hale Curtis (1902)
Boss Weeks (1903)
A. R. Kennedy (1904–1910)
Ralph W. Sherwin (1911)
Arthur Mosse (1912–1913)
H. M. Wheaton (1914)
Herman Olcott (1915–1917)
Jay Bond (1918)
Leon McCarty (1919)
Phog Allen (1920)
George Clark (1921–1925)
Franklin Cappon (1926–1927)
Homer Woodson Hargiss (1928–1932)
Adrian Lindsey (1933–1938)
Gwinn Henry (1939–1942)
Henry Shenk (1943–1945)
George Sauer (1946–1947)
Jules V. Sikes (1948–1953)
Chuck Mather (1954–1957)
Jack Mitchell (1958–1966)
Pepper Rodgers (1967–1970)
Don Fambrough (1971–1974)
Bud Moore (1975–1978)
Don Fambrough (1979–1982)
Mike Gottfried (1983–1985)
Bob Valesente (1986–1987)
Glen Mason (1988–1996)
Terry Allen (1997–2001)
Mark Mangino (2002–2009)
Turner Gill (2010–2011)
Charlie Weis (2012–2014)
Clint Bowen # (2014)
David Beaty (2015– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Kansas Jayhawks head baseball coaches

Unknown (1880)
No team (1881)
Unknown (1882)
No team (1883)
Unknown (1884–1894)
No team (1895)
Unknown (1886)
No team (1897)
J. R. Snyder (1898)
Frank Jewett (1899)
Clyde Nichols (1900)
No team (1901)
Ulysses Plank (1902–1904)
Arthur Relihan (1905)
Dick Kaufman (1906–1908)
A. M. Ebright (1909)
Arthur Sherwin (1910–1912)
Leon McCarty (1913–1917)
Jay Bond (1918–1919)
Leon McCarty (1920)
Adrian Lindsey (1921)
George Clark (1922–1925)
John Bunn (1926–1930)
T. C. Bishop (1931)
Wayne Culp (1932)
No team (1933–1936)
Ole Nesmith (1937)
Frances Kappelman (1937)
Ralph Conger (1938–1939)
Mike Getto (1940)
Phog Allen (1941–1942)
No team (1943)
Elmer Schaake (1944)
No team (1945)
Red Dugan (1946)
Vic Bradford (1947)
Russ Sehon (1948)
William Hogan (1949–1950)
Hubert Ulrich (1951–1953)
Floyd Temple (1954–1981)
Marty Pattin (1982–1987)
Dave Bingham (1988–1995)
Bobby Randall (1996–2002)
Ritch Price (2003– )

Minnesota Golden Gophers head baseball coaches

No coach (1876)
No team (1877)
No coach (1878)
No team (1879)
No coach (1880)
No team (1881–1882)
No coach (1883–1902)
No team (1903)
No coach (1904)
No team (1905)
No coach (1906–1907)
Walter Wilmot (1908–1909)
Perry Werden & Walter Wilmot (1910)
Wilkie Clarke (1911)
No team (1912)
Denny Sullivan (1913–1914)
Frosty Thomas (1915)
No team (1916–1921)
Russ Ford & Bee Lawler (1922)
Lee Watrous, Jr. (1923–1926)
George Clark (1927)
Dutch Bergman (1928–1930)
Frank McCormick (1931–1941)
Dave MacMillan (1942–1947)
Dick Siebert (1948–1978)
George Thomas (1979–1981)
John Anderson (1981– )

Butler Bulldogs athletic directors

Harlan Page (1920–1926) Tony Hinkle (1926–1927) George Clark (1927–1930) Harry M. Bell (1930–) Tony Hinkle (–1970) Thomas M. Warner (1970–1975) Bill Sylvester (1975–1989) Mary Ann Rohleder # (1989–1990) John Parry (1990–2006) Barry Collier (2006– ) Pound sign (#) denotes interim athletic director.

Butler Bulldogs head football coaches

Unknown (1884)
No team (1885)
Unknown (1886)
Clinton L. Hare (1887)
Unknown (1888)
Clinton L. Hare (1889–1890)
Unknown (1891–1893)
Joseph Flint (1894–1895)
Unknown (1896)
James L. Zink (1897)
T. Williamson (1898)
Walter F. Kelly (1899–1903)
Edgar Wingard (1904–1905)
Don Robinson (1906)
Jack McKay (1907–1908)
Walter Gipe (1909)
Jack McKay (1910)
Dave Allerdice (1911)
G. Cullen Thomas (1912–1918)
Joe Mullane (1919)
Harlan Page (1920–1925)
Tony Hinkle (1926)
George Clark (1927–1929)
Harry M. Bell (1930–1931)
Fred Mackey (1932–1934)
Tony Hinkle (1935–1941)
Frank Hedden (1942)
No team (1943–1944)
Frank Hedden (1945)
Tony Hinkle (1946–1969)
Bill Sylvester (1970–1984)
Bill Lynch (1985–1989)
Bob Bartolomeo (1990–1991)
Ken LaRose (1992–2001)
Kit Cartwright (2002–2005)
Jeff Voris (2006– )

Butler Bulldogs head baseball coaches

Unknown (1898)
No team (1899–1900)
Walter F. Kelly (1901–1905)
No team (1906–1907)
Walter F. Kelly (1908)
Jack McKay (1909)
G. Cullen Thomas (1910–1915)
No team (1916–1917)
G. Cullen Thomas (1918–1919)
No team (1920)
Tony Hinkle (1921–1927)
George Clark (1928)
Willie McGill (1929)
No team (1930–1931)
Willie McGill (1932)
Tony Hinkle (1933–1941)
Hugh Middlesworth (1942)
Walter Floyd (1943)
No team (1944)
Walter Hedden (1945)
Tony Hinkle (1947–1971)
Thomas M. Warner (1972–1974)
Scott Neat (1975–1991)
Steve Farley (1992– )

Portsmouth Spartans / Detroit Lions head coaches

Hal Griffen (1930)
George Clark (1931–1936)
Dutch Clark (1937–1938)
Gus Henderson (1939)
George Clark (1940)
Bill Edwards (1941–1942)
John Karcis (1942)
Gus Dorais (1943–1947)
Bo McMillin (1948–1950)
Buddy Parker (1951–1956)
George Wilson (1957–1964)
Harry Gilmer (1965–1966)
Joe Schmidt (1967–1972)
Don McCafferty (1973)
Rick Forzano (1974–1976)
Tommy Hudspeth (1976–1977)
Monte Clark (1978–1984)
Darryl Rogers (1985–1988)
Wayne Fontes (1988–1996)
Bobby Ross (1997–2000)
Gary Moeller (2000)
Marty Mornhinweg (2001–2002)
Steve Mariucci (2003–2005)
Dick Jauron # (2005)
Rod Marinelli (2006–2008)
Jim Schwartz (2009–2013)
Jim Caldwell (2014– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Brooklyn Dodgers / Tigers head coaches

Jack Depler (1930–1931) Benny Friedman (1932) John McEwan (1933–1934) Paul J. Schissler (1935–1936) George Clark (1937–1939) Jock Sutherland (1940–1941) Mike Getto (1942) Pete Cawthon (1943) Frank Bridges, Pete Cawthon & Ed Kubale (1944)

Saint Mary's Pre-Flight Air Devils head football coaches

Tex Oliver (1942) Spike Nelson (1943) Jules V. Sikes (1944) George Clark (1945)

Nebraska Cornhuskers head football coaches

Langdon Frothingham (1890)
Theron Lyman (1891)
J. S. Williams (1892)
Frank Crawford (1893–1894)
Charles Thomas (1895)
Eddie N. Robinson (1896–1897)
Fielding H. Yost (1898)
Alonzo Edwin Branch (1899)
Walter C. Booth (1900–1905)
Amos Foster (1906)
William C. "King" Cole (1907–1910)
Ewald O. Stiehm (1911–1915)
E. J. Stewart (1916–1917)
William G. Kline (1918)
Henry Schulte (1919–1920)
Fred Dawson (1921–1924)
Ernest Bearg (1925–1928)
Dana X. Bible (1929–1936)
Biff Jones (1937–1941)
Glenn Presnell (1942)
Adolph J. Lewandowski (1943–1944)
George Clark (1945)
Bernie Masterson (1946–1947)
George Clark (1948)
Bill Glassford (1949–1955)
Pete Elliott (1956)
Bill Jennings (1957–1961)
Bob Devaney (1962–1972)
Tom Osborne (1973–1997)
Frank Solich (1998–2003)
Bo Pelini # (2003)
Bill Callahan (2004–2007)
Bo Pelini (2008–2014)
Barney Cotton # (2014)
Mike Riley (2015– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim coach.

Nebraska Cornhuskers athletic directors

H. D. Gish (1928–1931) Dana X. Bible (1932–1936) Biff Jones (1937–1942) Adolph J. Lewandowski (1942–1947) George Clark (1948–1953) Bill Orwig (1954–1960) Charles Miller (1961) Joseph Soshnik (1961) Tippy Dye (1962–1966) Bob Devaney (1967–1992) Bill Byrne (1992–2002) Steve Pederson (2002–2007) Tom Osborne (2007–2013) Shawn Eichorst (2013– )

1914 Illinois Fighting Illini football—national champions

Ralph Chapman George Clark Sylvester Derby Perry Graves Bart Macomber Harold Pogue Head coach Robert Zuppke

Detroit Lions 1935 NFL Champions

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George Clark (American football coach)

Head coaching record

College football

See also

References

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