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Tony Gibson (American football)

American football coach (born 1972)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Tony Gibson is an American college football coach who is currently the head football coach at Marshall University. He previously served as defensive coordinator for West Virginia and NC State.

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“Tony Gibson (American football)” enters the record as american football coach (born 1972). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tony, Gibson and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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