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Maynard "Pat" O'Brien (January 12, 1907 – March 16, 1990) was an American
college football College football is gridiron football that is played by teams of amateur Student athlete, student-athletes at universities and colleges. It was through collegiate competition that gridiron football American football in the United States, firs ...
coach. He was the 13th head football coach at Eastern Illinois State College—now known as
Eastern Illinois University Eastern Illinois University (EIU) is a public university in Charleston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1895 as the Eastern Illinois State Normal School, a teacher's college offering a two-year degree, Eastern Illinois University gradual ...
—in
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, serving for nine seasons, from 1946 to 1950 and 1952 to 1955, and compiling a record of 27–50–1.Eastern Illinois Coaching Records
O'Brien Field was named in Maynard O'Brien's honor.


Head coaching record


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List of college football head coaches with non-consecutive tenure This is a list of college football head coaches with non-consecutive tenure, meaning that an individual was a head coach at a college or university for a period, departed, and then returned to the same college or university in the same capacity. ...


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1907 births 1990 deaths Eastern Illinois Panthers football coaches {{1940s-collegefootball-coach-stub