Tom Jennings

Tom Jennings is an American professional pocket billiards player and mathematics professor, born in 1951, who won the BCA U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship in 1976 and 1977, the first player since Steve Mizerak to win consecutive championships. He won both titles while a full-time mathematics professor at Middlesex County College in New Jersey. In 1976, in Chicago, he won despite never having won a match in four earlier editions, and in 1977 in Dayton, Ohio he lost his first match to Tom Kollins, won five more and beat Dick Lane in the final after Lane led 196-42, answering with a 71-point run.