Thomas M. Fitzpatrick (January 21, 1891 – June 24, 1986) was an

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 ...

and

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player, coach of football, basketball, and

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, and football official. He served as the head football coach at the

University of Utah The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of D ...

from 1919 to 1924, compiling a record of 23–17–3. From 1917 to 1925, he was the coach of the Utah men's basketball team; his teams had a cumulative record of 42–30. Fitzpatrick was also the head baseball coach at Utah from 1918 to 1921, tallying a mark of 14–8. Fitzpatrick was a native of

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. After leaving Utah, he moved to

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, to coach high school sports. There he coached football, basketball, and

at Roosevelt High School from 1926 to 1944 and at

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from 1945 to 1956. He also officiated 12 Rose Bowls, including the

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, famous for

Roy Riegels Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels (April 4, 1908 – March 26, 1993) played for the University of California, Berkeley football team from 1927 to 1929. His wrong-way run in the 1929 Rose Bowl is often cited as the worst blunder in the history of college foo ...

's wrong-way run. Fitzpatrick died on June 24, 1986, at the age of 95. He had been a resident of

Aptos, California Aptos (Ohlone for "The People") is an unincorporated town in Santa Cruz County, California. The town is made up of several small villages, which together form Aptos: Aptos Hills-Larkin Valley, Aptos Village, Cabrillo, Seacliff, Rio del Mar, and ...

, since 1962.

Head coaching record

College football

References

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