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Maynard "Pat" O'Brien (January 12, 1907 – March 16, 1990) 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 with ...
coach. He was the 13th head football coach at Eastern Illinois State College—now known as
Eastern Illinois University Eastern Illinois University is a public university in Charleston, Illinois. Established in 1895 as the Eastern Illinois State Normal School, a teacher's college offering a two-year degree, Eastern Illinois University gradually expanded into a co ...
—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