Jack Watson (American football)
American football player and coach, military officer (1893–1963)
John Wesley Watson (July 11, 1893 – January 4, 1963) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Utah State University from 1916 to 1917, compiling a record of 8–5–2.
Watson later served as an intelligence officer in the United States Army. He retired a major, having worked under the command of Claire Lee Chennault. Watson died of a heart attack, on January 4, 1963, in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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