Cass Jackson
American football player and coach
| Playing career | |
|---|---|
| 1962–1963 | San Jose State |
| Position(s) | Halfback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1968–1972 | San Jose State (assistant) |
| 1973–1975 | Oberlin |
| 1976–1977 | Morris Brown |
| 1978–1980 | Southern |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 37–37–2 |
Cass Jackson is a former American football coach and player. Hired in 1973 to become the head football coach at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, he became one of the first African-American head football coaches at a predominantly white college.[1] Jackson later served as the head coach at Morris Brown College from 1976 to 1977 and at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana from 1978 to 1980.[2] He played college football at San Jose State University, where he was a running back on the 1962 and 1963 teams.[3]
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | AP# | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oberlin Yeomen (Ohio Athletic Conference) (1973–1975) | |||||||||
| 1973 | Oberlin | 4–5 | 0–0 | NA | |||||
| 1974 | Oberlin | 5–4 | 0–0 | NA | |||||
| 1975 | Oberlin | 2–4 | 0–0 | NA | |||||
| Oberlin: | 11–13 | ||||||||
| Morris Brown Wolverines (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (1976–1977) | |||||||||
| 1976 | Morris Brown | 6–3–1 | 3–2 | 4th (Division I) | |||||
| 1977 | Morris Brown | 5–4 | 2–3 | T–3rd (Division I) | |||||
| Morris Brown: | 11–7–1 | 5–5 | |||||||
| Southern Jaguars (Southwestern Athletic Conference) (1978–1980) | |||||||||
| 1978 | Southern | 4–7 | 2–4 | 5th | |||||
| 1979 | Southern | 7–4 | 4–2 | T–3rd | T–10 | ||||
| 1980 | Southern | 4–6–1 | 3–3 | T–3rd | |||||
| Southern: | 15–17–2 | 9–9 | |||||||
| Total: | 37–37–2 | ||||||||
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Oberlin Yeomen head football coaches
- Bert M. Hogen (1891)
- John Heisman (1892)
- Everett B. Camp (1893)
- John Heisman (1894)
- William M. Richards (1895)
- C. K. Fauver (1896)
- Samuel Huston Thompson (1897)
- Edwin Stearns (1898–1899)
- Edgar Fauver & Edward Fauver (1900–1902)
- Edward Fauver (1903–1904)
- Richard M. Jones (1905)
- Harvey Snyder (1906–1910)
- Glen Gray (1911–1912)
- T. Nelson Metcalf (1913)
- A. Judson Pyle (1914)
- Frank Cary (1915)
- Paul Des Jardien (1916)
- Jacob Speelman (1917–1918)
- T. Nelson Metcalf (1919–1921)
- Udell H. Stallings & Lawrence McPhee (1922–1923)
- William L. Hughes (1924)
- Paul N. MacEachron (1925–1929)
- Lysle K. Butler (1930–1957)
- J. William Grice (1958–1972)
- Cass Jackson (1973–1975)
- Richard Riendeau (1976–1977)
- Don Hunsinger (1978–1989)
- Larry Story (1990–1991)
- Tony Pierce (1992–1993)
- Pete Peterson (1994–1998)
- Jeff Ramsey (1999–2013)
- Jay Anderson (2014–2019)
- Steve Opgenorth (2020–2022)
- John Pont (2023– )
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