Ned Thompson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Sports player and coach
Date of Birth: 10-Jan-1910
Place of Birth: Hayes Center, Nebraska, United States
Date of Death: 22-Dec-2011
Profession: basketball coach
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Ned Thompson
- Edward William "Ned" Thompson (January 10, 1910 – December 22, 2011) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach.
- Thompson was born in Hayes Center, Nebraska on January 10, 1910.
- He moved to Danbury, Texas at the age of 15 and graduated from nearby Angleton High School.
- Following high school, he attended Sam Houston State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1933. Thompson returned to Angleton, and began his coaching career as a football coach for Angleton High School, where he posted a record of 17–18–2 from 1934 to 1937.
- Following a stint at Richmond High School (Lamar Consolidated High School since 1948), he then worked for Pasadena High School as a coach for all of the boys teams from 1942 o 1946.
- During his final season as head coach for Pasadena's boys basketball, his team won the University Interscholastic League Class A boys basketball state championship.Thompson left Pasadena High School, and became the first baseball coach for 1947, backfield coach in football from 1946 to 1948 for the University of Houston.
- He also served as associate athletic director in charge of business finances from 1946 to 1976.
- Among the players for his 1947 baseball team was pitcher Bill Henry who had been a forward on Thompson's state championship basketball team the year prior.
- Following his 1947 efforts for Houston, Henry went on to become Houston's first player to play Major League Baseball, where he enjoyed a seventeen-year career.
- Thompson remained at Houston until he left for the same position at Houston Baptist University. Thompson died on December 22, 2011 at the age of 101.
- He was interred at South Park Cemetery in Pearland, Texas.
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