October 9, 1994(1994-10-09) (aged 83) Fairview Heights, Illinois, U.S.
Playing career
Football
1936–1937
Tennessee A&I
Position(s)
Fullback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1938
Tennessee A&I (backfield)
1939
Tennessee A&I
1948
Tennessee A&I (backfield)
1951–1952
South Carolina State
1953–1954
Tennessee A&I (assistant)
1955–1960
East St. Louis Lincoln HS (IL)
1961–1962
Tennessee A&I
Baseball
1947–1950
Tennessee A&I
1953–1955
Tennessee A&I
Head coaching record
Overall
20–18–3 (college football) 43–14 (high school football)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Football 1 MAA (1961)
Lawrence E. Simmons (July 5, 1911 – October 9, 1994) was an American football and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Tennessee A&I State College—now known as Tennessee State University—in Nashville, Tennessee in 1939 and again from 1961 to 1962, and at the Colored Normal Industrial Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina—now known as South Carolina State University—in Orangeburg, South Carolina from 1951 to 1952, compiling a career college football coach record of 20–18–3. Simmons also had two stints as the head baseball coach at Tennessee A&I, from 1947 to 1950 and 1953 to 1955.[1][2]
Simmons was the head football coach at East St. Louis Lincoln High School in East St. Louis, Illinois from 1955 to 1960, tallying a mark of 43–14.[3]
Simmons and his wife Mildred celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in 1968.[4] He and his wife are interred alongside each other at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in Missouri.[5][6]
^"State Normal Opens Season With Alabama". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. October 9, 1939. p. 29. Retrieved December 16, 2018 – via Newspapers.com .
^Clanton, Earl S. III (August 18, 1961). "Lawrence Simmons Named Head Football Coach At Tenn. State". Alabama Tribune. Montgomery, Alabama. p. 7. Retrieved December 16, 2018 – via Newspapers.com .
^"College Hires Lincoln High Coach Simmons". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. St. Louis, Missouri. August 15, 1961. p. 30. Retrieved August 16, 2018 – via Newspapers.com .
^"Mr., Mrs. Lawrence Simmons observe 25th anniversary". The Washington Afro-American. Washington, D.C. March 5, 1967. p. 9. Retrieved August 16, 2018 – via Google News.
^"Mildred Simmons St. Louis MO Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery". Archived from the original on April 15, 2013. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
^"Lawrence e Simmons St. Louis MO Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery". Archived from the original on April 15, 2013. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
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