Lawrence Simmons

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

Head coaching record
Overall	17–15–2

Lawrence E. Simmons (July 5, 1911 – October 9, 1994) was an American football coach. He was the tenth head football coach at Tennessee A&I State College—now known as Tennessee State University—in Nashville, Tennessee and he held that position for the 1940 season, a season where Tennessee A&I State played only one game. Simmons returned as the 13th head football coach, staying for two seasons, from 1961 until 1962. His career coaching record at Tennessee A&I State was 6–11–2.^[1]

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

References

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– )

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