Earl C. Banks (June 11, 1924 – October 27, 1993) 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 wi ...

player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head coach at Morgan State College—now known as

Morgan State University Morgan State University (Morgan State or MSU) is a public historically black research university in Baltimore, Maryland. It is the largest of Maryland's historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In 1867, the university, then known a ...

—from 1960 to 1973, compiling a record of 96–31–2, and as the

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at the school from 1970 to 1983. Banks was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1992. He died on October 27, 1993 as a result of a car crash in

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Head coaching record

Football

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External links

Morgan State Hall of Fame profile
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