Harry Long
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| Born | December 28, 1897 Wiley (assistant) |
Harry J. "Little" Long (December 28, 1897 – December 8, 1945) was an American college football coach and professor of biology and brother of Fred T. Long. He was born in Decatur, Illinois and graduated from Decatur High School in 1915. He enrolled at the James Millikin University in the fall of 1915 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1919, having majored in biology and minored in mathematics.[1] He completed his Master of Arts degree in biology at Columbia University in New York in 1928 and was working on completing his Doctorate at the University of Michigan before his untimely death in 1945.[2]
Harry began his coaching career at
On December 8, 1945, as the Wiley Wildcats were playing Florida A&M in the Orange Blossom Classic in Tampa, Florida for the black college football national championship Long, who was still an assistant coach on his brother's staff, suffered a fatal heart attack on the sidelines during the first quarter of the game and died. The Wildcats still went on to defeat Florida A&M by a score of 32–6 and won the national title for 1945.[4]
References
- ^ James Millikin University Commencement program June 3, 1919
- ^ The Chicago Defender "Wiley Coach Drops Dead in Football Classic" December 15, 1945 page 1 & 5
- ^ The Chicago Defender "Harry Long Joins Wiley Grid Staff" July 13, 1929 page 9
- ^ The Chicago Defender "Wiley Coach Drops Dead in Football Classic" December 15, 1945 page 1 & 5
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