:Thomas J. Campbell (American football)
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{{short description|American banker and college football coach}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Thomas J. Campbell
| image = TJCampbell.png
| alt =
| caption = Campbell pictured in Yackety Yack 1917, UNC yearbook
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1886|10|27}}
| birth_place = Gardner, Massachusetts, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1972|2|28|1886|10|27}}
| death_place = South Natick, Massachusetts, U.S.
| alma_mater =
| player_years1 = 1910–1911
| player_team1 = Harvard
| player_positions = Halfback
| coach_years1 = 1912
| coach_team1 = Morristown HS (NJ)
| coach_years2 = 1913–1914
| coach_team2 = Harvard (assistant)
| coach_years3 = 1915
| coach_team3 = Bowdoin
| coach_years4 = 1916–1919
| coach_team4 = North Carolina
| coach_years5 = 1922
| coach_team5 = Virginia
| coach_years6 = 1923–1924
| coach_team6 = Harvard (freshmen)
| overall_record = 16–16–2 (college)
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Thomas Joseph Campbell (October 27, 1886 – February 28, 1972){{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BV59AAAAIAAJ&q=%22THOMAS+JOSEPH+CAMPBELL+Born:+Gardner,+Mass.,+Oct.+27,+1886.+Parents:+William+John+Campbell*****%22|title = Harvard College: Class of 1912, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report. Sixth Report, June 1937|year = 1937}}{{cite news |title=Thomas J. Campbell . . . former Middlesex County Bank VP |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6637113/the_lowell_sun/ |newspaper=The Lowell Sun |location=Lowell, Massachusetts |date=March 1, 1972 |page=42 |access-date=September 14, 2016 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} was an American banker and football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Bowdoin College in 1915, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1916 to 1919, and at the University of Virginia in 1922, compiling a career college football record of 16–16–2. Campbell played football at Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1912.{{cite web |url=http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/fball/history/Football_Letterwinners_Media_Center |title=Media Center: Harvard Crimson Football All-Time Letterwinners |publisher=Harvard University |accessdate=April 13, 2012}}
Campbell married Mildred Bell in 1920 in New York.
Coaching career
In 1916 and 1919, Campbell served as the head coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he compiled a 9–7–1 record. From 1917 to 1918, he served in the military during World War I while North Carolina's football program was suspended. In 1922, Campbell coached at the University of Virginia, tallying a mark of 4–4–1.
Head coaching record
=College=
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Bowdoin Polar Bears
| conf =
| startyear = 1915
| endyear = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1915
| name = Bowdoin
| overall = 3–5
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| ranking = no
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| name = Bowdoin
| overall = 3–5
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = North Carolina Tar Heels
| conf = South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association
| startyear = 1916
| endyear = 1919
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1916
| name = North Carolina
| overall = 5–4
| conference = 3–1
| confstanding = T–5th
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1917
| name = No team—World War I
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
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| year = 1918
| name = No team—World War I
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1919
| name = North Carolina
| overall = 4–3–1
| conference = 3–1
| confstanding = T–3rd
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = North Carolina
| overall = 9–7–1
| confrecord = 6–2
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Virginia Orange and Blue
| conf = Southern Conference
| startyear = 1922
| endyear = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1922
| name = Virginia
| overall = 4–4–1
| conference = 1–1–1
| confstanding = 9th
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Virginia
| overall = 4–4–1
| confrecord = 1–1–1
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 16–16–2
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
| legend = no
}}
References
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{{Bowdoin Polar Bears football coach navbox}}
{{North Carolina Tar Heels football coach navbox}}
{{Virginia Cavaliers football coach navbox}}
{{1910 Harvard Crimson football navbox}}
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