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Tony Elliott (American football coach)

American football player and coach (born 1979)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Antonio Elliott is an American college football coach who is currently the head coach at the University of Virginia. He previously served as an assistant coach at Clemson University from 2011 to 2021, most recently as associate head coach, offensive coordinator, and tight ends coach, after serving most of those years as running backs coach and/or co-offensive coordinator.

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The public source identifies “Tony Elliott (American football coach)” as american football player and coach (born 1979). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tony, Elliott and American.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Tony, Elliott and American providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tony Elliott (American football coach)” 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.