Don Hall (American football)

Don Hall (c. 1925 – c. 2004) was an American junior college football coach and college athletics administrator. served as the head football coach at Stockton College—now known as San Joaquin Delta College—from 1954 to 1958 and Cerritos College in Norwalk, California from 1959 to 1963. Hall was also the athletic director at Cerritos from 1963 to 1978.^[1]

Hall was born in Kincaid, Illinois and grew up in Richmond, California. He attended the College of the Pacific—now known as the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where he played football as a center in 1942, 1946, and 1947. He was captain of the 1946 Pacific Tigers football team, the final team coached by Amos Alonzo Stagg at Pacific. During World War II, Hall served as an officer and a bomber pilot in the United States Army Air Forces. He went to Stockton College in 1950 and worked as Earl Klapstein's chief assistant before succeeding him as head football coach n 1954.^[2] Hall also coached baseball and golf at Stockton College. His baseball teams had a record of 94–48 and shared the Big Seven Conference title in 1954.^[3]

Hall was inducted into the Pacific Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999. He died around 2004 at the age of 79. Hall's grandson, Korey Hall, played in the National Football League (NFL).^[4]