C. B. Johnston
Clement Bernard "Johnnie" Johnston Sr. (born c. 1895, missing 1933) was an American football and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He was the second head football coach at Appalachian State Teachers College—now known as Appalachian State University—located in Boone, North Carolina, serving from 1929 to 1932. He played varsity football, basketball and baseball at Wake Forest University, earning letters in all three sports. In addition to coaching at Appalachian State, he also held a coaching position at Clarkson University, for which he was trained at a coaching school at Bucknell University under Fielding H. Yost. He is the grandfather of Cathy Johnston-Forbes.
Johnston pictured in The Rhododendron 1933, Appalachian State yearbook | |
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1895 Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Died | after 1933 |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| c. 1924 | Greensboro HS (NC) |
| 1925–1928 | Clarkson |
| 1929–1932 | Appalachian State |
| Baseball | |
| 1931 | Appalachian State |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1929–1933 | Appalachian State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 26–9–7 (college football, Appalachian State only) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Football 1 North State Conference (1931) | |
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