:Alton Jackson

{{Short description|American football coach}}

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| coach_years1 = 1929

| coach_team1 = Tennessee A&I

| overall_record = 3–2–1

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Alton Jackson was an American football coach. He was the sixth head football coach at Tennessee A&I State College—now known as Tennessee State University—in Nashville, Tennessee and he held that position for the 1929 season, compiling a record of 3–2–1.[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/ohiovalley/tennessee_state/coaching_records.php Tennessee State University coaching records] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728102840/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/ohiovalley/tennessee_state/coaching_records.php |date=July 28, 2014 }}