Cass Jackson

Biography

Cass Jackson is an American former football coach and player. Hired in 1973 to become the head football coach at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, he became one of the first African-American head football coaches at a predominantly white college. Jackson later served as the head coach at Morris Brown College from 1975 to 1977 and at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana from 1978 to 1980. He played college football at San Jose State University, where he was a running back on the 1962 and 1963 teams.

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