Brick Mitchell Explained

Brick Mitchell
Death Date: (aged 69)
Death Place:San Francisco, California, U.S.
Player Years1:1915–1918
Player Positions:End
Coach Years1:1920s
Coach Team1:San Mateo HS (CA)
Coach Years2:c. 1930
Coach Team2:California (line)
Coach Years3:1932–1935
Overall Record:10–20–3 (college)
Championships:2 Far Western (1932–1933)
Awards:First-team All-PCC (1916)

Clarence Leon "Brick" Mitchell (– October 21, 1963) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Nevada, Reno from 1932 to 1935, compiling a record of 10–20–3. Mitchell played college football as the University of Oregon from 1915 to 1918. He was selected to the 1916 All-Pacific Coast football team as an end. Before he was hired at Nevada, Mitchell worked as a line coach under Nibs Price at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] Mitchell coached football at San Mateo High School in San Mateo, California in the 1920s and led them to a state championship in 1926. In 1958, he was teaching mechanical drawing at Oroville High School in Oroville, California.[2] Mitchell died at the age of 69, on October 21, 1963, at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. News: . Brick Mitchell Named Head Coach at Nevada . . . . March 13, 1932 . 5 . October 1, 2016 . .
  2. News: . Down Memory Lane . . . February 10, 1958 . 10 . October 1, 2016 . .
  3. News: . C. L. Mitchell . Daily Independent Journal . . . October 25, 1963 . 4 . August 26, 2018 . .