Lawrence Simmons, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetLawrence Simmons
American football coach
Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1911
Place of Birth: Oklahoma, United States
Date of Death: 09-Oct-1994
Profession: head coach
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Lawrence Simmons
- Lawrence E.
- Simmons (July 5, 1911 – October 9, 1994) was an American football and baseball coach.
- He served as the head football coach at Tennessee A&I State College—now known as Tennessee State University—in Nashville, Tennessee in 1939 and again from 1961 to 1962, and at the Colored Normal Industrial Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina—now known asSouth Carolina State University—in Orangeburg, South Carolina from 1951 to 1952, compiling a career college football coach record of 20–18–3.
- Simmons also had two stints as the head baseball coach at Tennessee A&I, from 1947 to 1950 and 1953 to 1955.Simmons was the head football coach at East St.
- Louis Lincoln High School in East St.
- Louis, Illinois from 1955 to 1960, tallying a mark of 43–14.Simmons and his wife Mildred celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in 1968.
- He and his wife are interred alongside each other at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in Missouri.
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