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Andy MacDonald (American football)

American football player and coach (1930-1985)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ14950733 ↗
Source-derived summary

Andrew MacDonald (January 2, 1930 – May 24, 1985) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Northern Arizona University (NAU) from 1965 to 1968, compiling a record of 22–17–1. MacDonald also was an assistant coach for the Seattle Seahawks and Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Central Michigan University (CMU), where he was a Little All-American at quarterback.

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The public source identifies “Andy MacDonald (American football)” as american football player and coach (1930-1985). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Andy, MacDonald and American.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1930, 1985, 1965, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1930-01-02. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Andy, MacDonald and American providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q14950733. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1930, 1985, 1965 and 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “Andy MacDonald (American football)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.