- Otis Lamson
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Otis Lamson 
Lamson pictured in Yackety Yack 1908, North Carolina yearbook Sport(s) Football Biographical details Born September 13, 1876 Place of birth Beetown, Wisconsin Died December 11, 1956 (aged 80) Place of death Seattle, Washington Playing career 1904–1905
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Massillon TigersPosition(s) Tackle Coaching career (HC unless noted) 1907 North Carolina Head coaching record Overall 4–4–1 Statistics College Football Data Warehouse Accomplishments and honors Awards All-American, 1905 Otis Floyd Lamson (September 13, 1876 – December 11, 1956) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1907. Prior to his coaching career, Lamson played college football while attending the University of Pennsylvania. He lettered for the Quakers in 1904 and 1905. In 1905, he earned All-American honors from Walter Camp. He was born in Beetown, Wisconsin in 1876.[1]
In 1906, Lamson was hired by the Massillon Tigers to play for the team in the "Ohio League" championship. During that two game series, a betting scandal involving the Tigers and their rivial, the Canton Bulldogs, arose.
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Head coaching record
Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs North Carolina Tar Heels (South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1907) 1907 North Carolina 4–4–1 North Carolina: 4–4–1 Total: 4–4–1 References
Additional sources
- "Blondy Wallace and the Biggest Football Scandal Ever". PFRA Annual (Professional Football Researchers Association) 5: 1–16. 1984. http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/06-An-209.pdf.
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North Carolina Tar Heels head football coaches Hector Cowan (1888) • William P. Graves (1891) • Vernon K. Irvine (1894) • Thomas Trenchard (1895) • Gordon Johnston (1896) • William A. Reynolds (1897–1900) • Charles Jenkins (1901) • Herman Olcott (1902–1903) • R. R. Brown (1904) • Bill Warner (1905) • Willis Kienholz (1906) • Otis Lamson (1907) • Edward Green (1908) • Arthur Brides (1909–1910) • Branch Bocock (1911) • William Martin (1912) • Thomas Trenchard (1913–1915) • Thomas Campbell (1916–1919) • Myron Fuller (1920) • Bill Fetzer & Bob Fetzer (1921–1925) • Chuck Collins (1926–1933) • Carl Snavely (1934–1935) • Raymond Wolf (1936–1941) • Jim Tatum (1942) • Tom Young (1943) • Gene McEver (1944) • Carl Snavely (1945–1952) • George T. Barclay (1953–1955) • Jim Tatum (1956–1958) • Jim Hickey (1959–1966) • Bill Dooley (1967–1977) • Dick Crum (1978–1987) • Mack Brown (1988–1997) • Carl Torbush (1998–2000) • John Bunting (2001–2006) • Butch Davis (2007–2010) • Everett Withers # (2011– )
Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.
Categories:- 1876 births
- Massillon Tigers players
- North Carolina Tar Heels football coaches
- Penn Quakers football players
- People from Grant County, Wisconsin
- College football coaches first appointed in the 1900s stubs
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