Clarence Oscar "Clary" Anderson (July 7, 1911 – August 19, 1988) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

and

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

player and coach. He was the head baseball and football coach for the

Montclair State University Montclair State University (MSU) is a Public university, public research university in Montclair, New Jersey, with parts of the campus extending into Little Falls, New Jersey, Little Falls. As of fall 2018, Montclair State was, by enrollment, ...

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. In seven seasons as head football coach, he compiled a record of 46–20–3 and won the first five conference titles in the newly-formed

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, from 1969 to 1973. Prior to that, he was the very successful head coach in football for decades at Montclair High School. As the Montclair State's baseball coach, Anderson went 150–60 in six seasons. For his coaching efforts he was inducted into the Montclair State University Hall of Fame.

Head coaching record

College football

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* 1911 births 1988 deaths American football ends Colgate Raiders baseball players Colgate Raiders football players Fairleigh Dickinson Knights baseball coaches Montclair State Red Hawks football coaches Montclair State Red Hawks baseball coaches {{1960s-collegefootball-coach-stub