John Lumpkin (March 13, 1892 – January 21, 1972) was an American college football coach and politician.
He was the head football coach at Mississippi State Teachers College—now known as University of Southern Mississippi—in Hattiesburg, Mississippi for one season, in 1930, compiling a record of 3–5–1.
He attended the University of Mississippi, lettering for the Ole Miss Rebels football team in 1916 as a guard.
He was elected team captain for the 1917 season, but left the school to serve in World War I.
[1] Lumpkin died on January 21, 1972, at Methodist Hospital in Hattiesburg.