Homer Prendergast
Auburn Tigers
PositionHalfback/Quarterback
ClassGraduate
Personal information
Born:(1893-04-20)April 20, 1893
Marshall, Texas
Died:June 3, 1975(1975-06-03) (aged 82)
Shreveport, Louisiana
Career history
CollegeAuburn (19131916)
Career highlights and awards

Finis Homer "Boosky" Prendergast, Jr. (April 20, 1893 June 3, 1975) was a college football player and high school football coach.

Playing career

Auburn University

Prendergast was a prominent running back for Mike Donahue's Auburn Tigers football team of Auburn University from 1913 to 1916. He also punted.

1915
He was selected All-Southern in 1915.[1]

1916
Prendergast was selected All-Southern again in 1916.[2]

Coaching career

Homer Prendergast began as head coach at Fair Park High School in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1931 and coached until 1955.[3][4]

In his twenty-three years as head coach, he had a 1547813 (.655) record and won a LHSAA State Championship in 1952.[5]

References

  1. Dick Jemison (November 30, 1915). "Composite All-Southern Of Ten Of The Dopesters". Atlanta Constitution. p. 10. Retrieved March 5, 2015 via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. Closed access icon "All-Southern Football Team As Picked By Sport Writers". Augusta Chronicle. December 3, 1916.
  3. "Our Fair Park History". Retrieved March 19, 2015.
  4. Truman Stacey (January 13, 1955). "From The Press Box". Lake Charles American-Press. p. 9. Retrieved March 19, 2015 via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  5. Jerry Byrd's Football Country (1981), pp. 103106, 154157


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