Dan Brooks (born June 25, 1951) is a former

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 wit ...

coach and player.

Playing career

Brooks played as a

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for

Appalachian State University Appalachian State University (; Appalachian, App State, App, or ASU) is a public university in Boone, North Carolina. It was founded as a teachers college in 1899 by brothers B. B. and D. D. Dougherty and the latter's wife, Lillie Shull Dough ...

from 1969 to 1972, before transferring to

Western Carolina University Western Carolina University (WCU) is a public university in Cullowhee, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina system. The fifth oldest institution of the sixteen four-year universities in the UNC system, WCU was founded t ...

in 1973.

Coaching career

Clemson

From 2009 to 2016 he served as the defensive tackles coach for

Clemson University Clemson University () is a public land-grant research university in Clemson, South Carolina. Founded in 1889, Clemson is the second-largest university in the student population in South Carolina. For the fall 2019 semester, the university enr ...

. During the 2016 season, Brooks was named AFCA Division I FBS Assistant Coach of the Year by the

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. After the 2016 season, he retired from being a college football coach.

References

External links

Tigernet.com profile
1951 births Living people People from Alleghany County, North Carolina Players of American football from North Carolina Appalachian State Mountaineers football players Western Carolina Catamounts football players Coaches of American football from North Carolina Florida Gators football coaches North Carolina Tar Heels football coaches Tennessee Volunteers football coaches Clemson Tigers football coaches {{1980s-collegefootball-coach-stub