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Teddy Keaton

American football coach

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ7694036 ↗
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Teddy Keaton (born December 14, 1976) is an American football coach. He was most recently the head football coach for Clark Atlanta University, a position he held from 2024 until 2025. He was the head football coach for Allen University from 2018 to 2023. Keaton was born in Brewton, Alabama. Keaton previously served as the running backs coach of the Miles College Golden Bears. Keaton graduated from Stillman College in 1999 and served as an assistant coach under Theophilus Danzy through the 2004 season. From Stillman, he served as the defensive coordinator with the Odessa Roughnecks and as head coach of both the Lakeland Thunderbolts and Huntington Heroes arena football teams before returning to college coaching. He served as defensive backs coach for one season before becoming offensive coordinator at Webber International University between 2008–2010. On December 2, 2010, Keaton was hired to replace L. C. Cole as head coach at Stillman. After the 2015 season, Stillman discontinued its football program.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Teddy Keaton” as american football coach. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976, 2024, 2025, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-12-14. The account is most persuasive where Teddy, Keaton and American can be independently traced.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7694036. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976, 2024, 2025 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Teddy Keaton” 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.