- Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith
-
Not to be confused with John P. "Clipper" Smith.
Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith Sport(s) Football, basketball Biographical details Born October 15, 1898 Place of birth Manteno, Illinois Died March 18, 1984 (aged 85) Place of death Laguna Beach, California Playing career 1917–1920 Notre Dame Position(s) Guard Coaching career (HC unless noted) Football
1925–1928
1929–1935
1936–1942
1946
1947–1948
1949–1951
Basketball
1926–1931
Gonzaga
Santa Clara
Villanova
San Francisco
Boston Yanks
Lafayette
GonzagaHead coaching record Overall 109–75–12 (college football)
7–16–1 (NFL)
46–59 (college basketball)Bowls 1–0–1 Statistics College Football Data Warehouse Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (October 15, 1898 – March 18, 1984) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Gonzaga University (1925–1928), Santa Clara University (1929–1935), Villanova University (1936–1942), the University of San Francisco (1946), and Lafayette College (1949–1951), compiling a career college football record of 109–75–12. Smith was also the head coach of the NFL's Boston Yanks from 1947 to 1948, tallying a mark of 7–16–1.
Smith was also the head coach for the Gonzaga men's basketball team from the 1926–27 to 1930–31 seasons. While there, he acquired a record of 46–59 (.780).[1]
Contents
Head coaching record
College football
Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs AP# Gonzaga Bulldogs (Independent) (1925–1928) 1925 Gonzaga 7–2–2 1926 Gonzaga 5–2–1 1927 Gonzaga 5–3–1 1928 Gonzaga 6–2–1 Santa Clara Broncos (Independent) (1929–1935) 1929 Santa Clara 6–2 1930 Santa Clara 5–3–1 1931 Santa Clara 5–4–1 1932 Santa Clara 6–3 1933 Santa Clara 6–2–1 W New Year's Classic 1934 Santa Clara 7–2–1 1935 Santa Clara 3–6 Villanova Wildcats (Independent) (1936–1942) 1936 Villanova 7–2–1 1937 Villanova 8–0–1 T Bacardi 6 1938 Villanova 8–0–1 18 1939 Villanova 6–2 1940 Villanova 4–5 1941 Villanova 4–4 1942 Villanova 4–4 San Francisco Dons (Independent) (1946) 1946 San Francisco 3–6 Lafayette Leopards (Middle Three Conference) (1949–1951) 1949 Lafayette 2–6 1950 Lafayette 1–8 1951 Lafayette 1–7 Total: 109–75–12 #Rankings from final AP Poll. References
External links
Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball head coaches No coach (1907–1908) • George Varnell (1908–1909) • William Mulligan (1909–1910) • Frank McKevitt (1910–1911) • Fred Burns (1911–1912) • Ed Mulholland (1912–1913) • Robert E. Harmon (1913–1915) • William S. Higgins (1915–1916) • John F. McGough (1916–1917) • Guy Condon (1917–1918) • Edward Geheves (1918–1920) • Gus Dorais (1920–1926) • Maurice Smith (1926–1931) • S. Dagly (1931–1932) • Perry Teneyck (1932–1933) • Claude McGrath (1933–1942) • B. Frasier (1942–1943) • Charles Henry (1943–1944) • Eugene Wozny (1944–1945) • Gordon White (1945–1946) • Claude McGrath (1946–1949) • L. T. Underwood (1949–1951) • Hank Anderson (1951–1972) • Adrian Buoncristiani (1972–1978) • Dan Fitzgerald (1978–1981) • Jay Hillock (1981–1985) • Dan Fitzgerald (1985–1997) • Dan Monson (1997–1999) • Mark Few (1999– )
Gonzaga Bulldogs head football coaches Unknown (1887–1891) • Harry Luhn (1892–1893) • No team (1894–1895) • Harry Luhn (1896–1898) • No team (1899–1906) • Unknown (1907) • George Varnell (1908–1911) • Fred Burns (1912) • Robert E. Harmon (1913–1914) • William Coyle (1915) • John F. McGough (1916) • Guy Condon (1917) • C. A. Mullen (1918) • William S. Higgins (1919) • Gus Dorais (1920–1924) • Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (1925–1928) • Robert L. Mathews (1929) • Ray Flaherty (1930) • Mike Pecarovich (1931–1938) • Puggy Hunton (1939–1941)
Santa Clara Broncos head football coaches Unknown (1896) • No team (1897) • No coach (1898) • No team (1899–1901) • Gene Sheehy (1902–1905) • No team (1906) • William H. Howard (1907) • No team (1908) • Harry Renwick (1909) • No coach (1910–1911) • Pat Higgins (1912–1914) • No team (1915) • Charles A. Austin (1916) • Austin Mandershed & Walter Mandershed (1917) • No team (1918) • Robert E. Harmon (1919–1920) • Harry Buckingham (1921–1922) • Eddie Keinholz (1923–1924) • Adam Walsh (1925–1928) • Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (1929–1935) • Buck Shaw (1936–1942) • No team (1943–1945) • Len Casanova (1946–1949) • Richard F. Gallagher (1950–1952) • No team (1953–1958) • Pat Malley (1959–1984) • Terry Malley (1985–1992)
Villanova Wildcats head football coaches Mike Murphy (1894) • James A. McDonald (1895–1896) • John F. Bagley (1897–1898) • Dick Nallin (1899) • John Powers & John J. Egan (1900) • John J. Egan (1901) • Richard Kelly & Timothy O'Rourke (1902) • Martin Caine (1903) • Fred Crolius (1904–1911) • Charles McGeehan (1912) • Thomas St. Germaine (1913) • Frank Sommers (1914–1915) • Edward Bennis (1916) • Thomas Reap (1917–1920) • Allie Miller (1921–1922) • Hugh McGeehan (1923) • Frank Sommers (1924) • Harry Stuhldreher (1925–1935) • Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (1936–1942) • Jordan Olivar (1943–1948) • Jim Leonard (1949–1950) • Art Raimo (1951–1953) • Frank Reagan (1954–1958) • Frank Reagan & Joseph Rogers (1959) • Alexander F. Bell (1960–1966) • Jack Gregory (1967–1969) • Lou Ferry (1970–1974) • James C. Weaver # (1974) • Dick Bedesem (1975–1980) • No team (1981–1984) • Andy Talley (1985–)
Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.San Francisco Dons head football coaches Unknown (1917) • No team (1918) • Unknown (1919) • No team (1920–1923) • Jimmy Needles (1924–1931) • Lawrence Lewis (1932–1935) • George Malley (1936–1940) • Jeff Cravath (1941) • Al Tassi (1942–1943) • No team (1944–1945) • Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (1946) • Edward McKeever (1947) • Joe Kuharich (1948–1951) • No team (1952–1958) • Unknown (1959–1960) • Robert MacKenzie (1961–1962) • Unknown (1963) • Ron Piercall (1964–1968) • Vince Tringali (1969–1971)
Boston Yanks head football coaches Herb Kopf (1944–1946) • Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (1947–1948)
Wallace Moyle (1891–1892) • P. G. Haskell & H. H. Vincent (1893) • Hugh Janeway & H. H. Vincent (1894) • Parke H. Davis (1895–1897) • Samuel B. Newton (1898–1901) • Dave Fultz (1902) • Alfred E. Bull (1903–1907) • George O. Barclay (1908) • Bob Folwell (1909–1910) • Bob Folwell & Samuel B. Newton (1911) • George McCaa (1912–1913) • Wilmer Crowell (1914–1916) • Robert Berryman (1917) • L. A. Cobbett (1918) • Jock Sutherland (1919–1923) • Herb McCracken (1924–1935) • Ernie Nevers (1936) • Edward Mylin (1937–1942) • Ben Wolfson (1943–1945) • Edward Mylin (1946) • Ivy Williamson (1947–1948) • Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (1949–1951) • Steve Hokuf (1952–1957) • James McConlogue (1958–1962) • Kenneth Bunn (1963–1966) • Harry Gamble (1967–1970) • Neil Putnam (1971–1980) • Bill Russo (1981–1999) • Frank Tavani (2000–) Categories:- 1898 births
- 1984 deaths
- Boston Yanks coaches
- Gonzaga Bulldogs football coaches
- Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball coaches
- Lafayette Leopards football coaches
- Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players
- San Francisco Dons football coaches
- Santa Clara Broncos football coaches
- Villanova Wildcats football coaches
- People from Kankakee County, Illinois
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.