Carl Gray "The Grey Fox" Snavely (July 30, 1894 – July 12, 1975) was an
American football
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and
baseball
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coach. He served as the head football coach at
Bucknell University
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(1927–1933), the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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(1934–1935, 1945–1952),
Cornell University
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(1936–1944), and
Washington University in St. Louis
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(1953–1958), compiling a career
college football
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record of 180–96–16. Snavely was inducted into the
College Football Hall of Fame
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as a coach in 1965.
Snavley was the head football coach at
Bellefonte Academy
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in
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
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from 1922 to 1926, tallying a mark of 40–2–3 in five seasons.
From 1927 to 1933, Snavely served as the head football coach at Bucknell, where he compiled a 42–16–8 record. From 1934 to 1935, and from 1945 to 1952, he served as the head football coach at North Carolina, where he compiled a 59–35–5 record. He was a proponent of the
single wing offense. From 1936 to 1944, he served as the head football coach at Cornell, where he compiled a 46–26–3 record. He was a 1915 graduate of
Lebanon Valley College in
Annville, Pennsylvania, where he played four years on the football team. He was a 1976 inductee into their athletic Hall of Fame.
Head coaching record
College football
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1894 births
1975 deaths
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