Claude Simons Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Claude Simons Jr.

American football player and coach, basketball coach, baseball coach, college athletics administrator

Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1914

Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Date of Death: 05-Jan-1975

Profession: basketball coach, American football player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Claude M.
"Little Monk" Simons Jr.
(January 16, 1914 – January 6, 1975) was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator.
He played college football at Tulane University, where he starred for the Tulane Green Wave as a halfback.
Simons served as the head football coach at Transylvania University from 1935 to 1937 and his alma mater, Tulane, from 1942 to 1945, compiling career college football coaching record of 24–30–2.
He was the basketball coach at Tulane from 1938 to 1942, tallying a mark of 19–44.
He also had two stints the school's baseball coach, from 1938 to 1941 and 1943 to 1949, amassing a record of 91–69.
Monk was the athletic director at Tulane from 1946 to 1947.
He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as player in 1963.