C. B. Johnston

Clement Bernard "Johnnie" Johnston Sr. (born , missing 1933) was an American football and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He was the second head football coach at Appalachian State Teachers College—now known as Appalachian State University—located in Boone, North Carolina, serving from 1929 to 1932. He played varsity football, basketball and baseball at Wake Forest University, earning letters in all three sports. In addition to coaching at Appalachian State, he also held a coaching position at Clarkson University, for which he was trained at a coaching school at Bucknell University under Fielding H. Yost. He is the grandfather of Cathy Johnston-Forbes.

Disappearance In 1933, Johnston sent a postcard to his wife from Zanesville, Ohio, stating that he was on his way to Chicago, Illinois to publish a book after being fired as head football coach of Appalachian State Teachers College the previous year. No one heard from him after that. Johnston may have changed his name to play four more years of college athletics. According to Johnston's grandson, he may have been spotted at a golf tournament in Florida around the years 1947 to 1951 by Johnston's son, either in Orlando, Gainesville, or Pensacola. Besides a former girlfriend of Johnston's, who potentially knew his whereabouts, nobody knows where Johnston went after he first disappeared, and nobody knows where he died.

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