George Clark (American football coach)

George M. "Potsy" Clark (March 20, 1894 – November 8, 1972) was an American football and baseball player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Michigan Agricultural College, now Michigan State University, (1920), the University of Kansas (1921–1925), Butler University (1927–1929), and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (1945, 1948), compiling a career college football record of 40–45–7. Clark was also the head coach of the National Football League's Portsmouth Spartans/Detroit Lions (1931–1936, 1940) and Brooklyn Dodgers (1937–1938), amassing a career NFL mark of 64–42–12. Clark's 1935 Detroit Lions team won the NFL Championship. From 1945 to 1953, Clark served as the athletic director at Nebraska.

Head coaching record

College football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
Michigan Agricultural Aggies (Independent) (1920)
1920	Michigan Agricultural	4–6
Michigan Agricultural:		4–6
Kansas Jayhawks (Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1921–1925)
1921	Kansas	4–3	3–3	5th
1922	Kansas	3–4–1	1–3–1	6th
1923	Kansas	5–0–3	3–0–3	2nd
1924	Kansas	2–5–1	2–4–1	7th
1925	Kansas	2–5–1	2–5–1	8th
Kansas:		16–17–6	11–15–6
Butler Bulldogs (Independent) (1927–1929)
1927	Butler	4–3–1
1928	Butler	6–2
1929	Butler	4–4
Butler:		14–9–1
Nebraska Cornhuskers (Big Six Conference) (1945)
1945	Nebraska	4–5	2–3	4th
Nebraska Cornhuskers (Big Seven Conference) (1948)
1948	Nebraska	2–8	2–4	T–5th
Nebraska:		6–13	4–7
Total:		40–45–7

See also

• List of college football head coaches with non-consecutive tenure

External links

• George Clark at the College Football Data Warehouse