Don Campora
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Position: | Tackle |
Personal information | |
Born: | Trenton, Utah, U.S. | August 30, 1927
Died: | June 5, 1978 San Bernardino, California, U.S. | (aged 50)
Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
Weight: | 268 lb (122 kg) |
Career information | |
College: | Pacific (CA) |
NFL draft: | 1950 / round: 2 / pick: 23 |
Career history | |
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Don Carlo Campora (August 30, 1927 – June 5, 1978) was an American gridiron football player and coach. He played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Francisco 49ers in 1950 and 1952 and for the Washington Redskins in 1953. In 1954, he played with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Campora played college football at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California and served as the school's head football coach from 1964 to 1965. He was selected by the 49ers in the second round with the 23rd overall pick of the 1950 NFL Draft.
Campora was a native of Stockton, where he attended high school. He worked as an assistant football coach at Arizona State University in 1951 under Larry Siemering, who coached Campora at Pacific. Campora served as a line coach at Stockton College (now known as a San Joaquin Delta College) from 1955 to 1957. He joined the coaching staff as his alma mater, Pacific, as line coach in December 1957.[1]
Campora's tongue-in-cheek nickname was "Tiny". He was a teacher at Calaveras High School in San Andreas, California, in the 1970s.
Head coaching record
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Pacific Tigers (NCAA College Division independent) (1964–1965) | |||||||||
1964 | Pacific | 1–9 | |||||||
1965 | Pacific | 1–8 | |||||||
Pacific: | 2–17 | ||||||||
Total: | 2–17 |
References
- ^ "Moved Up From Mustangs; Campora is COP Line Coach". Lodi News-Sentinel. Lodi, California. December 13, 1957. p. 12. Retrieved August 9, 2016 – via Google News.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from NFL.com · Pro Football Reference
- Don Campora at Find a Grave
- 1927 births
- 1978 deaths
- American football tackles
- American players of Canadian football
- Canadian football tackles
- Arizona State Sun Devils football coaches
- Calgary Stampeders players
- Pacific Tigers football coaches
- Pacific Tigers football players
- San Francisco 49ers players
- Washington Redskins players
- Junior college football coaches in the United States
- People from Cache County, Utah
- Players of American football from Stockton, California
- Players of Canadian football from Stockton, California