Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith

Not to be confused with John "Clipper" Smith.

Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith
Sport(s)	Football, basketball, baseball
Biographical details
Born	(1898-10-15)October 15, 1898 Manteno, Illinois
Died	March 18, 1984(1984-03-18) (aged 85) Laguna Beach, California
Playing career
Football 1917–1920	Notre Dame
Position(s)	Guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football 1925–1928 1929–1935 1936–1942 1946 1947–1948 1949–1951 Basketball 1925–1929 Baseball 1926	Gonzaga Santa Clara Villanova San Francisco Boston Yanks Lafayette Gonzaga Gonzaga
Head coaching record
Overall	109–75–12 (college football) 7–16–1 (NFL) 46–59 (college basketball) 4–11 (college baseball)
Bowls	1–0–1
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse

Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (October 15, 1898 – March 18, 1984) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Gonzaga University (1925–1928),^[1]^[2]^[3] Santa Clara University (1929–1935),^[4] Villanova University (1936–1942), the University of San Francisco (1946), and Lafayette College (1949–1951), compiling a career college football record of 109–75–12. Smith was also the head coach of the National Football League's Boston Yanks from 1947 to 1948, tallying a mark of 7–16–1. In addition, he was the head basketball coach at Gonzaga from 1925 to 1929, , and the head baseball coach at the school for one season in 1926, notching a record of 4–11.^[5]

Head coaching record

College football

Year	Team	Overall	Bowl/playoffs	AP^#
Gonzaga Bulldogs (Independent) (1925–1928)
1925	Gonzaga	7–2–2
1926	Gonzaga	5–2–1
1927	Gonzaga	5–3–1
1928	Gonzaga	6–2–1
Gonzaga:		23–9–5
Santa Clara Broncos (Independent) (1929–1935)
1929	Santa Clara	6–2
1930	Santa Clara	5–3–1
1931	Santa Clara	5–4–1
1932	Santa Clara	6–3
1933	Santa Clara	6–2–1	W New Year's Classic
1934	Santa Clara	7–2–1
1935	Santa Clara	3–6
Santa Clara:		38–22–4
Villanova Wildcats (Independent) (1936–1942)
1936	Villanova	7–2–1
1937	Villanova	8–0–1	T Bacardi	6
1938	Villanova	8–0–1		18
1939	Villanova	6–2
1940	Villanova	4–5
1941	Villanova	4–4
1942	Villanova	4–4
Villanova:		41–17–3
San Francisco Dons (Independent) (1946)
1946	San Francisco	3–6
San Francisco:		3–6
Lafayette Leopards (Middle Three Conference) (1949–1951)
1949	Lafayette	2–6
1950	Lafayette	1–8
1951	Lafayette	1–7
Lafayette:		4–21
Total:		109–75–12
^#Rankings from final AP Poll.

References

↑ "Clipper Smith works his outfit overtime". Spokane Daily Chronicle. October 28, 1925. p. 18.
↑ "Clipper Smith may change job". Spokane Daily Chronicle. May 18, 1929. p. 1.
↑ "Clipper Smith heading south". Spokane Daily Chronicle. May 30, 1929. p. 14.
↑ "Clipper Smith heads for Villanova; plays Santa Clara in fall". The Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon). United Press. June 25, 1936. p. 10.
↑ Gonzaga Basketball History - Page 51 of 62

External links

Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith at the College Football Data Warehouse

Gonzaga Bulldogs head football coaches

Unknown (1887–1891)
Harry Luhn (1892–1893)
No team (1894–1895)
Harry Luhn (1896–1898)
No team (1899–1906)
Unknown (1907)
George Varnell (1908–1911)
Fred Burns (1912)
Robert E. Harmon (1913–1914)
William Coyle (1915)
John F. McGough (1916)
Guy Condon (1917)
C. A. Mullen (1918)
William S. Higgins (1919)
Gus Dorais (1920–1924)
Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (1925–1928)
Robert L. Mathews (1929)
Ray Flaherty (1930)
Mike Pecarovich (1931–1938)
Puggy Hunton (1939–1941)

Gonzaga Bulldogs head baseball coaches

Unknown (1890–1908)
Stanley H. Titus (1909)
Unknown (1890–1908)
Fred Burns (1911)
Ralph Willis (1913)
Unknown (1913–1914)
Robert E. Harmon (1915)
Father Gilbert (1916)
Unknown (1917–1920)
Gus Dorais (1921–1925)
Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (1926)
Unknown (1927)
Hust Stockton (1928)
Unknown (1929–1946)
Gerald O'Melveney (1947–1948)
L. T. Underwood (1949–1950)
Dick Busch (1951)
Unknown (1952–1956)
Dick Busch (1957–1959)
Joe Schauble (1960–1961)
Dick Busch (1962–1967)
Joey August (1968–1969)
Larry Koentopp (1970–1977)
Steve Hertz (1978)
Jim Lawler (1979–1980)
Steve Hertz (1981–2003)
Mark Machtolf (2004– )

Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball head coaches

No coach (1907–1908)
George Varnell (1908–1909)
William Mulligan (1909–1910)
Frank McKevitt (1910–1911)
Fred Burns (1911–1912)
Ed Mulholland (1912–1913)
Robert E. Harmon (1913–1915)
William S. Higgins (1915–1916)
John F. McGough (1916–1917)
Guy Condon (1917–1918)
Edward Geheves (1918–1920)
Gus Dorais (1920–1925)
Maurice Smith (1925–1929)
Robert L. Mathews (1929–1930)
Ray Flaherty (1930–1931)
Perry Ten Eyck (1931–1932)
Claude McGrath (1932–1942)
B. Frasier (1942–1943)
Charles Henry (1943–1944)
Eugene Wozny (1944–1945)
Gordon White (1945–1946)
Claude McGrath (1946–1949)
L. T. Underwood (1949–1951)
Hank Anderson (1951–1972)
Adrian Buoncristiani (1972–1978)
Dan Fitzgerald (1978–1981)
Jay Hillock (1981–1985)
Dan Fitzgerald (1985–1997)
Dan Monson (1997–1999)
Mark Few (1999– )

Santa Clara Broncos head football coaches

Unknown (1896)
No team (1897)
No coach (1898)
No team (1899–1901)
Gene Sheehy (1902–1905)
No team (1906)
William H. Howard (1907)
No team (1908)
Harry Renwick (1909)
No coach (1910–1911)
Pat Higgins (1912–1914)
No team (1915)
Charles A. Austin (1916)
Austin Mandershed & Walter Mandershed (1917)
No team (1918)
Robert E. Harmon (1919–1920)
Harry Buckingham (1921–1922)
Eddie Kienholz (1923–1924)
Adam Walsh (1925–1928)
Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (1929–1935)
Buck Shaw (1936–1942)
No team (1943–1945)
Len Casanova (1946–1949)
Richard F. Gallagher (1950–1952)
No team (1953–1958)
Pat Malley (1959–1984)
Terry Malley (1985–1992)

Villanova Wildcats athletic directors

Charles McGeehan Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (1936–) Bill Carmichael Billy Connelly (–1952) Art Raimo (1952–1953) Bud Dudley (1953–1956) Frank Reagan (1957–1961) Art Mahan (1961–1973) Philip Bender (1973–1974) Ted Aceto (1974–1993) Gene DeFilippo (1993–1997) Tim Hofferth (1997–2000) Vince Nicastro (2000– )

Villanova Wildcats head football coaches

Mike Murphy (1894)
James A. McDonald (1895–1896)
John F. Bagley (1897–1898)
Dick Nallin (1899)
John Powers & John J. Egan (1900)
John J. Egan (1901)
Richard Kelly & Timothy O'Rourke (1902)
Martin Caine (1903)
Fred Crolius (1904–1911)
Charles McGeehan (1912)
Thomas St. Germaine (1913)
Dutch Sommer (1914–1915)
Edward Bennis (1916)
Thomas Reap (1917–1920)
Allie Miller (1921–1922)
Hugh McGeehan (1923)
Dutch Sommer (1924)
Harry Stuhldreher (1925–1935)
Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (1936–1942)
Jordan Olivar (1943–1948)
Jim Leonard (1949–1950)
Art Raimo (1951–1953)
Frank Reagan (1954–1959)
Joseph Rogers (1959)
Alexander F. Bell (1960–1966)
Jack Gregory (1967–1969)
Lou Ferry (1970–1974)
James C. Weaver # (1974)
Dick Bedesem (1975–1980)
No team (1981–1984)
Andy Talley (1985– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

San Francisco Dons head football coaches

Unknown (1917)
No team (1918)
Unknown (1919)
No team (1920–1923)
Jimmy Needles (1924–1931)
Lawrence Lewis (1932–1935)
George Malley (1936–1940)
Jeff Cravath (1941)
Al Tassi (1942–1943)
No team (1944–1945)
Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (1946)
Edward McKeever (1947)
Joe Kuharich (1948–1951)
No team (1952–1958)
Unknown (1959–1960)
Robert MacKenzie (1961–1962)
Unknown (1963)
Ron Piercall (1964–1968)
Vince Tringali (1969–1971)

Boston Yanks head football coaches

Herb Kopf (1944–1946) Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (1947–1948)

Lafayette Leopards head football coaches

No coach (1882–1890)
Wallace Moyle (1891–1892)
P. G. Haskell & H. H. Vincent (1893)
Hugh Janeway & H. H. Vincent (1894)
Parke H. Davis (1895–1897)
Samuel B. Newton (1898–1901)
Dave Fultz (1902)
Alfred E. Bull (1903–1907)
George Barclay (1908)
Bob Folwell (1909–1910)
Bob Folwell & Samuel B. Newton (1911)
George McCaa (1912–1913)
Wilmer Crowell (1914–1916)
Punk Berryman (1917)
L. A. Cobbett (1918)
Jock Sutherland (1919–1923)
Herb McCracken (1924–1935)
Ernie Nevers (1936)
Edward Mylin (1937–1942)
Ben Wolfson (1943–1945)
Edward Mylin (1946)
Ivy Williamson (1947–1948)
Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith (1949–1951)
Steve Hokuf (1952–1957)
James McConlogue (1958–1962)
Kenneth Bunn (1963–1966)
Harry Gamble (1967–1970)
Neil Putnam (1971–1980)
Bill Russo (1981–1999)
Frank Tavani (2000– )