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A. Lee Smith

1915 – 1985

American football coach and college athletics administrator

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Lived 1915 – 1985 (aged 69–70). A. Lee Smith was a teacher.

Arlie Lee Smith (October 7, 1915 – November 28, 1985) was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Hillsboro Junior College—now known as Hill College–in Hillsboro, Texas for one season, in 1949, and Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas from 1951 to 1966. Smith was also the athletic director at Navarro from 1951 to 1966.

A native of Waco, Texas, Smith graduated in 1947 from Austin College in Sherman, Texas, where he majored in physical education. He began his coaching career at La Vega High School in Bellmead, Texas and then went to Hillsboro Junior College in 1948 as an assistant football coach. He succeed Lloyd Raymer as Hillsboro's head football coach in 1949. Smith was hired as head football coach at Navarro in 1951, succeeding Ken Clark, and also tasked to coach the basketball, and track teams at the school. He stepped down as football coach an athletic director in 1966 to become chairman of the school's physical education program. Al Carmichael succeeded him in both roles.

Smith earned a master's degree from Baylor University. In 1980, he was inducted into Austin College's Athletic Hall of Honor.

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1915
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American football coach and college athletics administrator (1915–1985)

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A. Lee Smith was born in 1915.

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A. Lee Smith died in 1985.

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A. Lee Smith was a teacher.

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