Lawrence Simmons

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Lawrence Simmons
Sport(s)	Football
Biographical details
Born	(1911-07-05)July 5, 1911 Oklahoma, United States
Died	October 9, 1994(1994-10-09) (aged 83) Fairview Heights, Illinois
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1950–1951 1961–1962	South Carolina State Tennessee State
Head coaching record
Overall	17–15–2

Lawrence E. Simmons was the tenth head football coach for the Tennessee State University Tigers located in Nashville, Tennessee and he held that position for the 1940 season, a season where Tennessee State only played one game that they would win. Simmons would later return as the 13th head football coach, this time staying for two seasons, from 1961 until 1962. His career coaching record at Tennessee State was 6 wins, 11 losses, and 2 ties. As of the conclusion of the 2007 season, this ranks him 13th at Tennessee State in total wins and 18th at Tennessee State in winning percentage.^[1]

Simmons and his wife Mildred celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in 1968.^[2] Him and his wife are interred alongside each other at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in Missouri.^[3]^[4]

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South Carolina State Bulldogs head football coaches

W. C. Lewis (1925–1926)
Unknown (1927–1930)
P. V. Brooks (1931)
Robert A. Brooks (1932–1935)
Oliver C. Dawson (1937–1942)
No team (1943–1945)
Oliver C. Dawson (1946–1950)
Lawrence Simmons (1951–1952)
John H. Martin (1953–1954)
William D. Brown (1955)
Roy D. Moore (1956–1959)
William B. Harris (1960–1961)
George Bell (1962–1964)
Oree Banks (1965–1972)
Willie Jeffries (1973–1978)
Bill Davis (1979–1985)
Dennis Thomas (1986–1988)
Willie Jeffries (1989–2001)
Oliver Pough (2002– )

Tennessee State Tigers head football coaches

Buck Hunt (1916)
No team (1917–1921)
Joe E. Scruggs (1922–1924)
George Davenport (1925–1926)
Caesar Felton Gayles (1927)
Harry Long (1928)
Alton Jackson (1929)
T. D. Upshaw (1930–1931)
Unknown (1932)
Walter S. Davis (1933–1936)
Reubin Munday (1937–1939)
Unknown (1940)
No team (1941–1943)
Henry Kean (1944–1954)
Howard C. Gentry (1955–1960)
Lawrence Simmons (1961–1962)
John Merritt (1963–1983)
William A. Thomas (1984–1988)
Joe Gilliam, Sr. (1989–1992)
Bill Davis (1993–1995)
L. C. Cole (1996–1999)
James Reese (2000–2004)
James Webster (2005–2009)
Rod Reed (2010– )

Persondata
Name	Simmons, Lawrence
Alternative names
Short description	American football coach
Date of birth	1911-07-05
Place of birth	Oklahoma, United States
Date of death	1994-10-09
Place of death	Fairview Heights, Illinois

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