John Lee Armstrong (December 15, 1932 – November 1, 2012) 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 and coach. He was a college football player at Howard College—now known as Samford University—in

Homewood, Alabama Homewood is a city in southeastern Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It is a suburb of Birmingham, located on the other side of Red Mountain due south of the city center. As of the 2010 census its population was 25,167, and in 2019 th ...

from 1950 to 1953. Armstrong returned to his alma mater to serve as head football coach from 1966 to 1968, compiling a record of 20–9–2.

Head coaching record

College

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