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Ermal Glenn Allen (December 25, 1918 – February 9, 1988) was an American football quarterback and assistant coach. He grew up in Tennessee and attended the University of Kentucky, where he played basketball, track, golf, and football. After four years in the U.S. Army during World War II, Allen was drafted in 1947 by the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He instead went to play for the Cleveland Browns of the competing All-America Football Conference, who won the league championship that year. Allen played in Cleveland for one season, returning to the University of Kentucky in 1948 to serve as an assistant football coach under Bear Bryant. He stayed at Kentucky after Blanton Collier took over as head coach in 1954, working as the team's defensive coordinator. In 1962, Tom Landry hired him as a backfield coach on the NFL's Dallas Cowboys. He became the head of the Cowboys' research and development department in 1970 and was charged with scouting opponents. The Cowboys won Super Bowl VI in 1972. Allen remained with the team until retiring in 1983. He died of cancer in 1998 in a Dallas hospital. ==Early life and college== Allen grew up in Morristown, Tennessee and was a star athlete at Morristown High School. He attended the University of Kentucky, where he played football, basketball, track and golf.〔 He was on the varsity football team between 1939 and 1941, playing as a tailback under head coach A. D. Kirwan.〔 The team finished with winning records in each of the seasons Allen played, but was not ranked in the AP Poll of the best college teams in the country. Allen was a triple threat man, handling passing, running and kicking duties for Kentucky. Allen was a member of a Kentucky golf team that lost only one match in 1940 and went undefeated in 1941 and 1942.〔 He played varsity basketball between 1940 and 1942, earning a spot on the Southeastern Conference all-star team in his final year.〔 Allen's college career was interrupted by service in the U.S. Army during World War II. He enlisted in 1942 and spent four years in the Army, rising to the rank of major.〔 Allen returned to the University of Kentucky to finish his education and play a final year of football. A controversy developed, however, over his eligibility to play in 1946 because he had already played three varsity seasons before enlisting.〔 Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Conner ruled him ineligible in September, shortly after he had been certified to play based on a rule that gave four years of varsity eligibility to men who served in the war. Several days later, he was again ruled eligible by the conference's executive committee. Kentucky head coach Bear Bryant said he was "deligted" with the decision. After quarterbacking Kentucky to victories over the University of Mississippi and University of Cincinnati, the conference reversed its decision and declared him ineligible.〔 He spent the rest of the year coaching backs under Bryant.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ermal Allen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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