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Frank Bridges

1890 – 1970

American football, basketball, and baseball coach, college athletics administrator

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Lived 1890 – 1970 (aged 79). Frank Bridges was an American basketball coach and american football coach.

Frank Bogart Bridges Sr. (July 4, 1890 – June 10, 1970) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Baylor University from 1920 to 1925, Simmons University—now known as Hardin–Simmons University—from 1927 to 1929, and St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas from 1935 to 1939. Bridges was also the head basketball coach at Baylor from 1920 to 1926, at Simmons from 1927 to 1929, and at St. Mary's from 1935 to 1939, tallying a career college basketball mark of 102–137. In addition, he was Baylor's head baseball coach from 1920 to 1927, amassing a record of 95–73, and the head baseball coach at St. Mary's in 1938. 1944, Bridges served as the co-head coach with Pete Cawthon and Ed Kubale for the Brooklyn Tigers of the National Football League (NFL). He graduated from Harvard University.

Coaching career From 1911 to 1916, Bridges coached the YMCA basketball team in Columbus, Georgia, then "the cradle of basketball in Georgia." In 1919, he coached high school football in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Bridges also coached football and basketball at Texas Military College, lead the football team to a Central Texas Conference (CTC) championship in 1933.

Death Bridges died on June 10, 1970, at a nursing home in San Antonio.

Head coaching record College football

College basketball

College baseball

Junior college football

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Harvard University

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Who was Frank Bridges?

American football, basketball, and baseball coach, college athletics administrator

When was Frank Bridges born?

Frank Bridges was born on 4 July 1890 in Savannah.

When did Frank Bridges die?

Frank Bridges died on 10 June 1970 in San Antonio.

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Frank Bridges was a basketball coach and american football coach.

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Frank Bridges was American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Frank Bridges

· Wikidata: Q5485476

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