Vannette W. Johnson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Vannette W. Johnson

American football coach

Date of Birth: 27-May-1930

Place of Birth: Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Profession: head coach

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Vannette W. Johnson

  • Vannette William Johnson (born May 27, 1930) is a former American football and track coach and college athletics administrator.
  • He served the head football coach at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff—known as Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College prior to 1972—for 11 seasons, from 1962 to 1972, compiling a record of 52–44–6. Johnson played football at Dunbar High School in Little Rock, Arkansas before graduating in 1948.
  • He then played college football as a quarterback at Arkansas AM&N before he graduated in 1952 with a bachelor's degree in history and government.
  • He also earned a master's degree in physical education from the University of Arkansas in 1961.
  • Johnson began his coaching career as an assistant at Merrill High School in Pine Bluff, Arkansas in 1952.
  • He returned to Arkansas AM&N in 1957 as backfield coach for the football team and head track coach.
  • In 1962 he was appointed as the school's head football coach and athletic director.

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