 Little in 1926 | |
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| Born: | December 6, 1891 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died: | May 28, 1979 (aged 87) Delray Beach, Florida, U.S. |
| Career information | |
| College: | Penn |
| Position: | Tackle |
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| Military career | |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Service |  U.S. Army |
| Years of service | 1917–1918 |
| Rank |  Captain |
| Unit |  6th Infantry Division |
| Battles / wars | World War I Meuse-Argonne Offensive |
Luigi "Lou Little" Piccirilli December 6, 1891 – May 28, 1979) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Georgetown College—now known as Georgetown University—from 1924 to 1929 and Columbia University from 1930 to 1956, compiling a career college football coaching record of 151–128–13. Little played college football as a tackle at the University of Pennsylvania for the 1916 and 1919 seasons and professionally with the Frankford Yellow Jackets of the National Football League (NFL) from 1920 to 1923. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1960. Little appeared as Lu Libble in Jack Kerouac's novel Maggie Cassidy, a fictionalized account of Kerouac's early life.