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Laurens Ellis Johnson (born December 23, 1951) is a former American football coach. He served as head football coach at Gardner–Webb University in 1983, The Citadel from 2001 to 2003, and the University of Southern Mississippi in 2012.
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252–247 (basketball) Ellis T. Johnson (August 8, 1910 –...
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Ellis Johnson may refer to: People. Ellis N. Johnson Jr....
- Ellis T. Johnson
252–247 (basketball) Ellis T. Johnson (August 8, 1910 – August 5, 1990) was an American football, basketball, baseball, and track and field player and coach. He was a four-sport letter-winner at the University of Kentucky, playing basketball, football, baseball, and track and field.
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- August 8, 1910, Morehead, Kentucky, U.S.
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- August 5, 1990 (aged 79), Huntington, West Virginia, U.S.
Ellis Johnson may refer to: People. Ellis N. Johnson Jr. (died 1902), American politician and educator from Ohio; Ellis Johnson (baseball) (1892–1965), pitcher in Major League Baseball; Ellis T. Johnson (1910–1990), American college football coach; Ellis L. Johnson, American mathematician
Ellis T. Johnson was an American football, basketball, baseball, and track and field player and coach. He was a four-sport letter-winner at the University of Kentucky, playing basketball, football, baseball, and track and field. In 1933 he became Adolph Rupp's first All-American at Kentucky.
Johnson has been a head coach as three different schools — Southern Miss, The Citadel and Gardner-Webb — but appears to be best-suited as an assistant where he can focus on one aspect of the game.
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Johnson was born in Wildwood, Florida in 1973. He attended Wildwood High School,where he played high school football for the Wildwood Wildcats.
Johnson accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Steve Spurrier's Florida Gators football team from 1991 to 1994. As a senior team captain on the Gators' 1994 Southeastern Conference (SEC) championship team, Johnson was a first-team All-SEC selection, an honorable mentio...
Indianapolis Colts
The Indianapolis Colts selected Johnson in the first round (fifteenth pick overall) of the 1995 NFL Draft. He played for the Colts from 1995 to 2001. During those seven seasons, he started eighty-four of 104 games, recording 269 tackles, thirty-three quarterback sacks and two interceptions.
Atlanta Falcons
Johnson signed with the Atlanta Falcons before the 2002 season, and he played for the Falcons from 2002 to 2003. In the two years, he started five of thirty-two games, recording sixty-seven tackles, and fifteen sacks.
Denver Broncos
Johnson was traded by the Falcons to the Denver Broncos before the 2004 season in exchange for the Broncos' fifth-round selection in the 2005 NFL draft. In his only season with the Broncos, he played in thirteen games, recording sixteen tackles, three sacks and an interception. The interception came on a deflected pass in the famous "snow game" with the Oakland Raiders, and Johnson put on an impressive burst of speed to reach the end zone.
Carlson, Norm, University of Florida Football Vault: The History of the Florida Gators, Whitman Publishing, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia (2007). ISBN 0-7948-2298-3.Golenbock, Peter, Go Gators! An Oral History of Florida's Pursuit of Gridiron Glory, Legends Publishing, LLC, St. Petersburg, Florida (2002). ISBN 0-9650782-1-3.Hairston, Jack, Tales from the Gator Swamp: A Collection of the Greatest Gator Stories Ever Told, Sports Publishing, LLC, Champaign, Illinois (2002). ISBN 1-58261-514-4.McCarthy, Kevin M., Fightin' Gators: A History of University of Florida Football, Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (2000). ISBN 978-0-7385-0559-6.James William Johnson (born July 16, 1943) is an American sports analyst and former football coach. Johnson served as a head football coach on the collegiate level from 1979 to 1988 and in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons.
