Chauncey Simpson | |
Birth Date: | 21 December 1910 |
Birth Place: | Bosworth, Missouri, U.S. |
Death Place: | Green Valley, Arizona, U.S. |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | 1924 |
Player Team2: | Missouri |
Player Years3: | 1926–1927 |
Player Team3: | Kirksville |
Player Sport4: | Basketball |
Player Team5: | Kirksville |
Player Sport6: | Track and field |
Player Team7: | Missouri |
Player Team8: | Kirksville |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1928–1933 |
Coach Team2: | Kirksville (assistant) |
Coach Years3: | 1934–1942 |
Coach Team3: | Missouri (assistant) |
Coach Years4: | 1943–1945 |
Coach Team4: | Missouri |
Coach Years5: | 1946–1954 |
Coach Team5: | Missouri (assistant) |
Coach Sport6: | Basketball |
Coach Years7: | 1934–1935 |
Coach Team7: | Kirksville |
Coach Sport8: | Track and field |
Coach Years9: | 1935–1946 |
Coach Team9: | Missouri |
Overall Record: | 12–14–2 (football) 6–6 (basketball) |
Bowl Record: | 0–1 |
Championships: | Football 1 Big Six (1945) |
Chauncey Simpson (December 21, 1901 – April 20, 1970) was an American college football, college basketball, and track and field coach. He was the interim head football coach at University of Missouri from 1943 to 1945 while Don Faurot, the standing head coach, served in the Navy during World War II. He compiled a 12–14–2 record including a 40–27 loss to Texas in the 1946 Cotton Bowl Classic. During that time, he also served as the school's track coach. He himself, was a football player at Missouri. With Faurot's return in 1946 Simpson reverted to his pre-war position as an assistant football coach. He was also the institution's long-time golf coach before retiring in the 1960s.[1]
Simpson died of a heart attack, on April 20, 1970, at his home in Green Valley, Arizona.[2] He was the younger brother of hurdler and track coach Robert Simpson.[3]