About Jack Clayton
Lived 1915 – 1997 (aged 82). Jack Clayton was an american football coach.
Jack H. Clayton (January 4, 1915 – January 26, 1997) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Centenary College of Louisiana during the 1946–1947 before moving to Bowling Green, Kentucky to become the head football coach at Western Kentucky State College from 1948 to 1956. Clayton later became the head football coach (1957–1966) and head baseball coach (1967–1968) at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
A native of Haughton, Louisiana, Clayton died of congestive heart failure, on January 26, 1997, at Willis-Knighton Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana.
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American football, basketball, and baseball coach
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Jack Clayton was born on 4 January 1915.
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Jack Clayton died on 26 January 1997 in Shreveport.
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Jack Clayton was an american football coach.
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