About Otis Finley
Lived 1898 – 1979 (aged 80–81). Otis Finley was an American coach.
Otis E. Finley Sr. (1898 – August 27, 1979) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri in 1924 and at Virginia State College for Negroes—now known as Virginia State University–from 1925 to 1926, compiling a career college football coaching record of 9–6–5. Finley was born in 1898, in LaFayette, Alabama. He was a graduate of Tuskegee University, the University of Akron, and Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts. He died on August 27, 1979, in Maryland.
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Who was Otis Finley?
American football coach
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Otis Finley was born in 1898 in LaFayette, Alabama.
When did Otis Finley die?
Otis Finley died on 27 August 1979 in Maryland.
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Otis Finley was a coach.
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Otis Finley was American.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Otis Finley. https://biography.guide/otis-finley/
MLA: "Otis Finley." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/otis-finley/.
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