Claude Simons Jr.
American football player and coach, basketball coach, baseball coach, college athletics administrator (1914-1975)
Claude M. "Little Monk" Simons Jr. (January 16, 1914 – January 6, 1975) was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He played college football at Tulane University, where he starred for the Tulane Green Wave as a halfback. Simons served as the head football coach at Transylvania University from 1935 to 1937 and his alma mater, Tulane, from 1942 to 1945, compiling career college football coaching record of 24–29–2. He was the basketball coach at Tulane from 1938 to 1942, tallying a mark of 19–44. He also had two stints the school's baseball coach, from 1938 to 1941 and 1943 to 1949, amassing a record of 91–69. Simons was the athletic director at Tulane from 1946 to 1947. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as player in 1963.
Early life
Simons was born on January 16, 1914, in New Orleans and later attended the Isidore Newman School. Simons' father, Claude "Monk" Simons Sr., served as the head coach for the Tulane baseball, basketball, track, and boxing teams, and as the Tulane football team trainer from 1926 until his death in 1943.
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