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William Abbey

b. 1927

American football coach

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Born 1927. William Abbey is a head coach and american football coach.

William L. Abbey is an American former football coach. In 1950 he was a tutor for Hood River Valley High School. In July of 1951 he took the place of Al Simpson, who had announced he would quit to become a logger, as the head football coach at Southern Oregon College of Education—now known as Southern Oregon University—in Ashland, Oregon. He coached through the 1951 season, compiling a record of 1–8. Abbey left SOCE in 1954 for a job at Fort Ord as an athletic director.

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1927
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Education
University of Oregon

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American football coach

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William Abbey was born in 1927.

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William Abbey is a head coach and american football coach.

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· Wikipedia: William Abbey

· Wikidata: Q16198354

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