Lou Little, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Lou Little

American football player and coach, college athletics administrator

Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1893

Place of Birth: Leominster, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 28-May-1979

Profession: American football player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Lou Little

  • Luigi "Lou Little" Piccolo (December 6, 1893 – May 28, 1979) was an American football player and coach.
  • Embarrassed by his Italian name, he changed it to "Little", retaining the meaning.
  • He served as the head coach at Georgetown College, now Georgetown University, from 1924 to 1929 and at Columbia University from 1930 to 1956, compiling a career college football record of 151–128–13.
  • Little played college football as a tackle at the University of Pennsylvania for the 1916 and 1919 seasons and then with the professional football team the Frankford Yellow Jackets from 1920 to 1923.
  • He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1960.
  • He appeared as Lu Libble in Jack Kerouac's novel Maggie Cassidy, a fictionalized account of Kerouac's early life.

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