Career
As of the conclusion of the 2007 season, this ranks him 23rd at Kentucky State in total wins and eighth at Kentucky State in winning percentage (500). Kentucky State did not field a team in 1943 and only had two games on the schedule in 1944. He also coached the Lexington Dunbar Bearcats from 1951 to around 1967.
Passmore was an educator, serving as principal of a school in Kentucky.
He also was a veteran of World World War II as well as a pastor. He died in 2003 of a heart attack.