Gilbert Carson (American football)
Gilbert Ted Carson was an American football and basketball coach. He was the eighth head football coach at Eastern Illinois State Teachers College—now known as Eastern Illinois University—in Charleston, Illinois, serving for five seasons, from 1936 to 1937 and again from 1939 to 1941, and compiling a record if 17–19–3. He married Maxine Powell. Carson was also the head basketball coach at Eastern Illinois from 1936 to 1942, tallying a mark of 36–72.Football