Background
Lawton was born in Ridgetown, Ontario, Canada in 1886. His father, Thomas M. Lawton was a prominent physician in Detroit for 25 years.
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University of Detroit Mercy.; Law School
Lawton was educated in the Detroit public schools and graduated from Detroit Central High School.
Career
He played at the fullback and punter positions for the football team from 1908 to 1910. He was the head coach for the University of Detroit Titans football team for the 1913 and 1914 seasons. Lawton enrolled in the law department at the and received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1911.
While attending Michigan, he played for Fielding H. Yost"s Michigan Wolverines football team as a fullback and punter from 1908 to 1910.
In August 1913, Lawton was hired as the head coach of Detroit Titans football team He served in that capacity from 1913 to 1914.
In two seasons as the team"s head coach, he compiled a record of 6–6–3 (500). After graduating from Michigan, Lawton was admitted to the Michigan bar, but he never practiced as an attorney.
He worked for several years on Young Men’s Christian Association activities in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the circulation department of The Detroit News, and in the real estate business.
In 1913, he formed an insurance partnership called Lawton & Ouellette in Detroit. He worked for many years in the insurance business and also officiated at college and high school football games. Lawton married Laura Bessie Newton in 1917, and they had five children, Thomas Stanley, Bessie Jean, Louie Jane, Diana Howard and George Francis Eugene.
Lawton"s brother, J. Fred Lawton, wrote the song "Varsity" for the Michigan football team
Lawton died in 1941 after several months of illness at his home in Ann Arbor at age 55.
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