Samuel Huston Thompson

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Samuel Huston “Shy” Thompson was a lawyer and an American football coach. The Princeton University graduate served as head coach of the University of Texas at Austin in 1900 and 1901, as the first head coach in school history to return for a second season. He holds a 14–2–1 record at Texas. He later served as assistant U.S. attorney general under President Woodrow Wilson from 1913-1918 and on the Federal Trade Commission from 1919-1927.

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