Norm Verry | |
Number: | 40, 49 |
Position: | Tackle |
Birth Date: | 18 September 1922 |
Birth Place: | Hanford, California, U.S. |
Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 1 |
Weight Lb: | 240 |
High School: | Visalia (Visalia, California) |
College: | USC |
Draftyear: | 1943 |
Draftround: | 2 |
Draftpick: | 78 (by the Green Bay Packers) |
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David Norman Verry (September 18, 1922 – October 12, 1961) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at the University of California (USC), earning third-team All-America and first-team All-Pacific Coast honors in 1942 as Tackle. Verry played professionally with Chicago Rockets of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) rom 1946 to 1947. He served as the head football coach at El Camino College in Alondra Park, California from 1952 to 1960, compiling a record of 54–27–2.
Verry coached the line at his alma mater, USC, in 1947 and 1948. In 1949, he assisted Marty Arnaga in coaching the football team at Inglewood High School in Inglewood, California. He joined the staff at El Camino as line coach in 1950 and succeeded Ambrose Schindler as head football coach two years later.[1] [2]
Verry died on October 12, 1961, at St. Vincent's Hospital in Los Angeles, after suffering a brain hemorrhage three weeks prior.[3]