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W. H. "Hank" Norton (October 15, 1927 – January 16, 2019) was an
American football American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at e ...
coach. He served as the head coach at
Ferrum College Ferrum College is a private college in Ferrum, Virginia. The college was established in 1913 as the "Ferrum Training School" (also referred to as the "Ferrum Institute" by its board of trustees) for primary and secondary education to serve the ...
in
Ferrum, Virginia Ferrum is a census-designated place (CDP) in Franklin County, Virginia, United States. The population was 2,043 at the 2010 census, an increase of over fifty percent from the 1,313 reported in 2000. Ferrum is home to Ferrum College and its Blue R ...
from 1960 to 1993. Norton coached Ferrum to four
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s and then guided the program to four-year NCAA varsity status in 1985.


Head coaching record


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Junior college


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1927 births 2019 deaths Ferrum Panthers (junior college) football coaches Ferrum Panthers football coaches High school football coaches in Virginia University of Lynchburg alumni Sportspeople from Huntington, West Virginia Long stubs with short prose {{1950s-collegefootball-coach-stub