Hampton John "Hamp" Pool was an American football player, coach and scout who was part of two National Football League championship teams during his playing career and served as head coach for three professional teams.
10 Facts About Hamp Pool
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Crowley won only one of 11 games before turning the team over to Hamp Pool, who watched the team drop its final three contests.
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In 1948, Hamp Pool returned to his native California to serve as an assistant under Bill Hubbard at San Jose State University.
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On March 3,1950, Hamp Pool returned to the professional ranks when his former Bears teammate, Joe Stydahar, hired him as backfield coach of the Los Angeles Rams.
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Hamp Pool had told media that "under no circumstances" would he accept the job if Stydahar resigned, then changed his mind.
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When Bob Waterfield was named head coach of the Rams in January 1960, he named Hamp Pool, who had been running a Toronto travel agency, as an assistant two months later.
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Ram tackle Frank Varrichione and Joe Marconi charged that Hamp Pool was really running the team, comparing him to a slave-driver, and that the team's offense was dated.
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When Svare was retained after the season, Hamp Pool became a scout for the team.
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Hamp Pool later helped start the league's first scouting combine, Quadra, and serve as a talent scout for the next few decades.
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Hamp Pool died of congestive heart failure in Mariposa, California.