Cass Jackson is a former American 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.
[1] Jackson later served as the head coach at Morris Brown College from 1976 to 1977 and at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana from 1978 to 1980.
[2] He played college football at San Jose State University, where he was a running back on the 1962 and 1963 teams.
[3][4] # denotes interim head coach This biographical article relating to a college football coach first appointed in the 1970s is a stub.