Frank Howard (American football coach)
Frank J. Howard was an American college football player and coach. He played college football for Alabama. After a careerending injury, Howard joined the staff at Clemson College and became head coach in 1940. Howard coached the Clemson Tigers foryears, amassing the 15th most wins of any college football coach. He led Clemson to ten bowl games, an undefeated season in 1948, and several top20 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 Clemsons Memorial Stadium is named after him.
Howard was born at Barlow Bend, Alabama . 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.
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