death_date death_place coach_years birth_place coach_team sport birth_date article_title name
27 february 1975 charleston , south carolina 1926 1926 -- 1930 1941 -- 1953 1926 -- 1930 1937 -- 1938 jeffersonville , ohio boxing baseball baseball track and field track and field boxing , baseball , track 14 february 1889 h. l. matthews
 h. l. `` matty '' matthews
h. l. matthews

howard lynn matthews , usually known as matty matthews or h. l. matthews , was a minor league baseball player and boxing , baseball , and track and field coach at the citadel , the military college of south carolina .
his son became head of a long family line of standout national football league players .
