Tim Crisp | |
Birth Date: | 13 August 1907 |
Birth Place: | Ardmore, Oklahoma, U.S. |
Death Date: | Apr 2005 (aged 97) |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | 1927–1930 |
Player Team2: | Langston |
Player Positions: | Halfback, quarterback |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1931 |
Coach Team2: | Ardmore Douglass HS (OK) (assistant) |
Coach Years3: | 1932–1941 |
Coach Team3: | Ardmore Douglass HS (OK) |
Coach Years4: | 1945–1957 |
Coach Team4: | Ardmore Douglass HS (OK) |
Coach Years5: | 1958–1969 |
Coach Team5: | Langston |
Coach Sport6: | Basketball |
Coach Years7: | ? |
Coach Team7: | Ardmore Douglass HS (OK) |
Admin Years1: | 1958–1970 |
Admin Team1: | Langston |
Overall Record: | 54–53–4 (college football) |
Bowl Record: | 0–3 |
Championships: | 3 OCC (1959–1961) |
Tobe Monroe "Tim" Crisp (August 13, 1907 – April 2005) was an American college football coach and player. He served as the head football coach at Langston University in Langston, Oklahoma from 1958 to 1969.
Crisp was born on August 13, 1907, in Ardmore, Oklahoma. He attended Ardmore Douglass High School, where the played as a halfback on the first football team ever fielded by the school, in 1923. He then played football, again as a halfback at Langston. After graduating from Langston in 1931, Crisp returned to Ardmore Douglas as an assistant football coach under E. W. Toliver before succeeding him as head football coach the next year. He also coached basketball at Ardmore Douglass.[1]
Crisp was hired as head football coach at Langston in 1958.[2] He retired as head football coach and athletic director at Langston in 1970.[3]