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Thomas Kelley
By Ethan Levine
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Thomas Kelley was a college football and basketball coach in the 1910’s and early 1920’s. He coached the University of Alabama football team for three seasons from 1915-1917 and went 17-7-1 in 25 games as coach of the Crimson Tide. He was also Alabama’s athletic director in 1915.
Kelley made several other coaching stops, including a 5-3 season at Missouri in 1922.
He played college football at the University of Chicago for Amos Alonzo Stagg, one of the biggest innovators in college football history.
A former newspaper reporter who has roamed the southeastern United States for years covering football and eating way too many barbecue ribs, if there is such a thing.
