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Jerry Don Sanders

American football coach

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ18157720 ↗
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Jerry Don Sanders (born February 24, 1948) is an American former college football coach and player. Sanders was a placekicker for the Texas Tech Red Raiders for three seasons, and in selected to play in the 1970 Blue–Gray Football Classic. The Cleveland Browns drafted Sanders in the 12th round of the 1970 NFL draft. Sanders went on to serve as head coach of the inaugural Lubbock Christian Chaparrals, but compiled a record of 0–16 for the 1979 and 1980 seasons.

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The public source identifies “Jerry Don Sanders” as american football coach. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jerry, Sanders and American.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948, 1970, 1979, 1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1948-02-24. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jerry, Sanders and American providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18157720. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1948, 1970, 1979 and 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jerry Don Sanders” 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.