Wilbur Eaton
American american football player
Intro | American american football player | |
Places | United States of America | |
was | American football player | |
Work field | Sports | |
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Birth | 2 February 1903, Omaha, United States of America | |
Death | 10 August 1993Colfax, United States of America (aged 90 years) | |
Star sign | Aquarius |
Wilbur Smyth Eaton (February 2, 1903 – August 10, 1993) was an American football player and college basketball coach. He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish from 1923 to 1924 alongside the famed Four Horsemen.
Eaton served as the head football coach at Mount St. Charles College—now known as Carroll College—in Helena, Montana from 1926 to 1930 and at the University of St. Thomas in St Paul, Minnesota in 1933. He was also the head basketball coach at Howard College—now known as Samford University—in Homewood, Alabama during the 1931–32 season.