Tom Beck (American football), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American football player and coach
Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1940
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Profession: American football player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Tom Beck (American football)
- Tom Beck (born December 21, 1940) is a former American football player and coach.
- He served as the head football coach at Illinois Benedictine College—now Benedictine University—from 1970 to 1974, Elmhurst College from 1976 to 1983, and Grand Valley State University from 1985 to 1990.
- During his college football head coaching career, he compiled a 137–52–1 record, a .724 winning percentage.
- All three institutions where Beck coached had historically losing teams before he turned them into nationally ranked programs.
- Beck was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2004. Beck played football at Northern Illinois University, where he started on offense, defense, and played special teams.
- He was the last two-way player in the history of Northern Illinois Huskies football.
- Beck was All-Conference on both offense and defense, an Academic All-American, and was inducted into the Northern Illinois University Athletics Hall of Fame.
- He has also been inducted into the athletic hall of fame at Elmhurst College, Benedictine University, and Grand Valley State University as a coach. Beck served as the offensive coordinator at Northern Illinois University in 1975, at the University of Notre Dame in 1990, and at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1991.
- He coached one season in 1984 with the Chicago Blitz of the United States Football League (USFL) before the league folded.
- While head coach at Grand Valley State, Beck gave Brian Kelly his first coaching job as a graduate assistant.
- Kelly was Beck's successor at Grand Valley State in 1991 and is currently the head coach at Notre Dame.After his coaching career, Beck spent time as a scout for the National Football League's Buffalo Bills and Chicago Bears.
- After scouting, he was an analyst for nine years for two different web sites, IrishEyes and Irish Today, that covered Notre Dame football.
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