Nephi Moroni Jorgensen (October 23, 1909 – January 11, 1988) 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 and college athletic administrator. He served as the head football coach at Defiance College in

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from 1939 to 1940. In 1947 Dr. Jorgensen became the first athletic director at East Carolina Teachers College, which later became

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.He served in this position until 1963. He was inducted into the first class of the ECU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1974.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jorgensen, N. M. 1909 births 1988 deaths Defiance Yellow Jackets football coaches East Carolina Pirates athletic directors People from Bonneville County, Idaho