Cleveland Abbott
Sport(s) | Football, basketball |
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Biographical details | |
Born | Yankton, South Dakota |
December 9, 1892
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Tuskegee, Alabama |
Playing career | |
Football | |
c. 1915 | South Dakota State |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1923–1954 | Tuskegee |
Basketball | |
1933–1936 | Tuskegee |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 203–96–28 (football) 27–18 (basketball) |
Bowls | 5–6 |
Statistics | |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Football 6 Black college national (1924–1927, 1929–1930) 12 SIAC (1924–1933, 1936, 1943) |
Cleveland Leigh "Cleve" Abbott (some sources say "Cleveland S. Abbott") (December 9, 1892 – April 14, 1955) was an African-American football player, coach and educator.[1]
Life
Abbott was born in Yankton, South Dakota in 1892, one of seven children. He graduated from high school in Watertown, South Dakota in 1912, and received his bachelor's degree from South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota in 1916. He was an outstanding, multi-sport athlete at Watertown High School (16 varsity sports letters) and SDSU (14 varsity letters at SDSU). After serving in Europe in World War I as an officer in the 366th Infantry Regiment, Abbott accepted a position as professor and coach at Tuskegee.[2]
Abbott was the eighth head football coach for the Tuskegee University Golden Tigers located in Tuskegee, Alabama[3] and he held that position for 32 seasons, from 1923 until 1954.
Abbott earned the respect of his peers through his team's performance and by participating in national committees for the selection of "all-American" players at the collegiate level.[4]
Abbott died in 1955 in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Head coaching record
College
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Tuskegee Golden Tigers (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (1923–1954) | |||||||||
1923 | Tuskegee | 7–1–1 | |||||||
1924 | Tuskegee | 9–0–1 | 1st | ||||||
1925 | Tuskegee | 8–0–1 | 1st | ||||||
1926 | Tuskegee | 10–0 | 1st | ||||||
1927 | Tuskegee | 9–0–1 | 1st | ||||||
1928 | Tuskegee | 6–1–4 | T–1st | ||||||
1929 | Tuskegee | 10–0 | 1st | ||||||
1930 | Tuskegee | 11–0–1 | 1st | W Prairie View Bowl | |||||
1931 | Tuskegee | 10–2 | 1st | ||||||
1932 | Tuskegee | 6–1 | 1st | L Prairie View Bowl | |||||
1933 | Tuskegee | 9–1–2 | 1st | ||||||
1934 | Tuskegee | 6–5–1 | W Prairie View Bowl | ||||||
1935 | Tuskegee | 8–4 | |||||||
1936 | Tuskegee | 7–5 | 1st | W Prairie View Bowl | |||||
1937 | Tuskegee | 6–3–1 | |||||||
1938 | Tuskegee | 1–7–2 | L Prairie View Bowl | ||||||
1939 | Tuskegee | 3–7 | |||||||
1940 | Tuskegee | 5–4 | |||||||
1941 | Tuskegee | 8–2 | L Orange Blossom Classic | ||||||
1942 | Tuskegee | 7–3 | L Vulcan | ||||||
1943 | Tuskegee | 9–2–1 | 1st | W Vulcan | |||||
1944 | Tuskegee | 6–4–1 | W Vulcan | ||||||
1945 | Tuskegee | 6–6–1 | L Prairie View Bowl | ||||||
1946 | Tuskegee | 10–2 | L Yam Bowl | ||||||
1947 | Tuskegee | 6–4–1 | |||||||
1948 | Tuskegee | 4–4–1 | |||||||
1949 | Tuskegee | 4–6 | |||||||
1950 | Tuskegee | 2–5–2 | |||||||
1951 | Tuskegee | 6–3 | |||||||
1952 | Tuskegee | 2–6–2 | |||||||
1953 | Tuskegee | 2–6–2 | |||||||
1954 | Tuskegee | 3–5–1 | |||||||
Tuskegee: | 206–99–27 | ||||||||
Total: | 206–99–27 |
See also
References
- ↑ The Afro American January 27, 1940
- ↑ The College on the Hill, a Sense of South Dakota State University History, Dunkle and Smith, 2003
- ↑ The Fayetteville Observer "Negro Gridiron Circuit is Popular" October 25, 1939[dead link]
- ↑ Baltimore Afro-American "Looking 'em Over" November 2, 1946
External links
- Articles with dead external links from March 2010
- 1892 births
- 1955 deaths
- South Dakota State Jackrabbits baseball players
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- South Dakota State Jackrabbits men's basketball players
- Tuskegee Golden Tigers athletic directors
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- Tuskegee Golden Tigers men's basketball coaches
- College track and field athletes in the United States
- College track and field coaches in the United States
- Tuskegee University faculty
- American military personnel of World War I
- United States Army officers
- People from Yankton County, South Dakota
- People from Watertown, South Dakota
- Players of American football from South Dakota
- African-American coaches of American football
- African-American players of American football