Don Hall ( – c. 2004) was an American

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coach and college athletics administrator. served as the head football coach at Stockton College—now known as San Joaquin Delta College—from 1954 to 1958 and Cerritos College in Norwalk, California from 1959 to 1963. Hall was also the

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at Cerritos from 1963 to 1978. Hall was born in

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and grew up in

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. He attended the College of the Pacific—now known as the

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, where he played football as a center in 1942, 1946, and 1947. He was captain of the

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, the final team coached by Amos Alonzo Stagg at Pacific. During

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, Hall served as an officer and a bomber pilot in the

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. He went to Stockton College in 1950 and worked as

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's chief assistant before succeeding him as head football coach n 1954. Hall also coached

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and

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at Stockton College. His baseball teams had a record of 94–48 and shared the Big Seven Conference title in 1954. Hall was inducted into the Pacific Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999. He died around 2004 at the age of 79. Hall's grandson, Korey Hall, played in the

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(NFL).

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