John Ambrose Lillibridge (June 27, 1878 – ?)
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college football
College football (french: Football universitaire) refers to gridiron football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States.
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coach. He served as the head football coach at Maryland Agricultural College—now known as the
University of Maryland, College Park—in 1897, compiling a record of 2–4.
Biography
Lillibridge was born in 1878 in
Laurel, Maryland and enrolled at the
Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland) in 1894.
[''Alumni Record of the Maryland Agricultural College: 1914]
Maryland Agricultural College, p. 62, 1914. He played as an
end on the
football team in 1896 and 1897. Lillibridge served as captain and player-coach in 1897. The Aggies posted a 2–4 record that season.
[Morris Allison Bealle, ''Kings of American Football: The University of Maryland, 1890–1952'', pp. 23–30, Columbia Publishing Co., 1952.]
Lillibridge graduated in 1898 with an
A.B. degree through the school's Classical Course. He worked as an accountant for the
Maryland Steel Company
Maryland Steel, in Sparrows Point, Maryland, US, was founded in 1887. It was acquired by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in 1916 and renamed as the Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard. The shipyard was sold in 1997 to Baltimore Marine Industries I ...
and then as a sales representative for the Barrett Manufacturing Company.
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Head coaching record
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1878 births
Year of death unknown
19th-century players of American football
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Maryland Terrapins football coaches
Maryland Terrapins football players
People from Laurel, Maryland
Coaches of American football from Maryland
Players of American football from Maryland