Merv Johnson (born May 16, 1936) is a former
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 and executive.
Johnson was born in
King City, Missouri
King City is a city in southwest Gentry County, Missouri, United States. The population was 799 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.
History
John Pittsenbarger was the first European settler when he set up a tent in town in 1856. His a ...
in 1936. He attended the
University of Missouri
The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...
where he played football from 1955 to 1957, as a tackle. Johnson began his coaching career with the
University of Arkansas
The University of Arkansas (U of A, UArk, or UA) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States. It is the Flagship campus, flagship campus of the University of Arkan ...
as an assistant, then served as an assistant at Missouri from 1960 to 1961, Arkansas again from 1962 to 1974, Notre Dame from 1975 to 1978, and Oklahoma from 1979 to 1997. From 1998 to 2012, he was Oklahoma's director of football operations. He is a member of the Oklahoma Coaches Association Hall of Fame, and has received the All-American Football Foundation's Mike Campbell Lifetime Achievement Award and National Football Foundation Integrity Award.
References
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Living people
1936 births
American football tackles
Arkansas Razorbacks football coaches
Missouri Tigers football coaches
Missouri Tigers football players
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football coaches
Oklahoma Sooners football announcers
Oklahoma Sooners football coaches
People from King City, Missouri
Players of American football from Missouri