Lou Little
American football player and coach
Died when: 85 years 173 days (1025 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Luigi "Lou Little" Piccirilli December 6, 1891 – May 28, 1979) was an American football player and coach born in Boston, Massachusetts.After Lou's birth, his father changed his family name to "Little", translating the Italian family name and moved his family to Leominster in 1896.
Little played football at Leominster High School where he was the team captain in 1910, his senior season.The 1910 team, led by Little’s stellar play, was Leominster’s first undefeated football team.
Little went on to play one postgraduate season for the Worcester Academy Hilltoppers in 1911 before returning to coach his alma mater Leominster High School for one season in 1912.
He served as the head coach at Georgetown College, now Georgetown University, from 1924 to 1929 and at Columbia University from 1930 to 1956, compiling a career college football record of 151–128–13.
Little played college football as a tackle at the University of Pennsylvania for the 1916 and 1919 seasons and then with the professional football team the Frankford Yellow Jackets from 1920 to 1923.
He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1960.He appeared as Lu Libble in Jack Kerouac's novel Maggie Cassidy, a fictionalized account of Kerouac's early life.
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