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Maurice Gordon Clarke

1877 – 1944

American football and baseball player and coach

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Lived 1877 – 1944 (aged 67). Maurice Gordon Clarke was an American american football player.

Maurice Gordon Clarke (May 2, 1877 – June 5, 1944) was an American college football and college baseball player and coach. The Omaha, Nebraska native served as head football coach at the University of Texas at Austin in 1899, at Western Reserve University—now a part of Case Western Reserve University—in 1900, and at Washington University in St. Louis in 1901, compiling a career football coaching record of 15–8–3. He was also the head baseball coach at Texas in the spring of 1900, tallying a mark of 14–2–1.

Clarke was a graduate of the University of Chicago and played quarterback for the Chicago Maroons from 1896 to 1898 teams under Amos Alonzo Stagg. He also lettered in baseball at Chicago.

Personal life Clarke was born May 2, 1877, in Bellevue, Nebraska, to Henry T. Clarke Sr. and Martha A. Fielding Clarke, and had many siblings, including baseball player and coach Henry T. Clarke Jr.

Clarke later went into the oil business in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. He died there on June 5, 1944.

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University of Chicago

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Who was Maurice Gordon Clarke?

American football and baseball player and coach (1877-1944)

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Maurice Gordon Clarke was born on 2 May 1877 in Bellevue.

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Maurice Gordon Clarke died on 5 June 1944 in Okmulgee, Oklahoma.

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Maurice Gordon Clarke was an american football player.

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Maurice Gordon Clarke was American.

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· Wikipedia: Maurice Gordon Clarke

· Wikidata: Q6793148

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