Tom Hamilton

Halfback, American football head coach

1905 – 1994

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Who was Tom Hamilton?

Thomas James "Tom" Hamilton was an American football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and naval aviator who rose to the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy. He served as the head football coach at the United States Naval Academy from 1934 to 1936 and again from 1946 to 1947 and at the University of Pittsburgh in 1951 and 1954, compiling a career college football record of 28–32–1. Hamilton was also the athletic director at the Naval Academy from 1948 to 1948 and at Pittsburgh from 1949 to 1959. From 1959 to 1971, he was the commissioner of the Athletic Association of Western Universities, renamed the Pacific-8 Conference in 1968 and now known as the Pacific-12 Conference. Hamilton was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1965.

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Born
Dec 26, 1905
Hoopeston
Education
  • United States Naval Academy
Died
Apr 3, 1994
Chula Vista

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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