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George M. "Potsy" Clark (March 20, 1894 – November 8, 1972) was an
American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...
and
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player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Michigan Agricultural College, now
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, (1920), the
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(1921–1925),
Butler University Butler University is a private university in Indianapolis, Indiana. Founded in 1855 and named after founder Ovid Butler, the university has over 60 major academic fields of study in six colleges: the Lacy School of Business, College of Communic ...
(1927–1929), and the
University of Nebraska–Lincoln The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Nebraska, NU, or UNL) is a public land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska. Chartered in 1869 by the Nebraska Legislature as part of the Morrill Act of 1862, the school was known as the Univers ...
(1945, 1948), compiling a career
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record of 40–45–7. Clark was also the head coach of the
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's Portsmouth Spartans/Detroit Lions (1931–1936, 1940) and
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(1937–1938), amassing a career NFL mark of 64–42–12. Clark's 1935 Detroit Lions team won the NFL Championship. From 1945 to 1953, Clark served as the
athletic director An athletic director (commonly "athletics director" or "AD") is an administrator at many American clubs or institutions, such as colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, who oversees the work of coaches and ...
at Nebraska.


Head coaching record


College football


NFL


See also

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References

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