Jack Clayton
- January 26, 1997
- 82 years
- congestive heart failure
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|Jack H. Clayton (January 4, 1915 – January 26, 1997) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Centenary College of Louisiana during the 1946–1947 before moving to Bowling Green, Kentucky to become the head football coach at Western Kentucky State College from 1948 to 1956. Clayton later became the head football coach (1957–1966) and head baseball coach (1967–1968) at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.[citation needed]
A native of Haughton, Louisiana, Clayton died of congestive heart failure, on January 26, 1997, at Willis-Knighton Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana.
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