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The name synonymous with Clarion University's football tradition, AI Jacks was head coach of the Golden Eagles from 1963 to 1981 (19 seasons).
 
Piling up a fantastic career record of 128-46-5 (72.9 percent winning rate), Al's first season showed a 4-4 record in 1963 followed by 18 straight winning seasons while capturing six PSAC Western Division titles (1966, 67, 69, 77, 78, and 80) and three PSAC championships (1966, 77, 80).
 
The recipient of numerous PSAC West Coach of the Year honors, he was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame Western Chapter in 1979 and saw his 1980 team named the ECAC Division II Team of the Year.
 
A 1953 graduate of Peabody High School (Pittsburgh), Jacks attended Penn State and was a starting quarterback under Rip Engle in the 1957 and 1958 seasons, completing over 50 percent of his passes.
 
He played in the North-South Shrine Game in 1959, graduated that same year, and after a stirtt in Canadian football returned to Penn State for one season.
 
Jacks was backfield coach at Slippery Rock State from 1960 through the 1962 football seasons before coming to Clarion in 1963.