Otto Carpell
 Carpell cropped from 1912 Michigan team photograph | |
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 12, 1889 Saginaw, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | October 11, 1918 (aged 28) West Point, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1909–1912 | Michigan |
| Position(s) | Albion |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 5–9 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1 MIAA (1913) | |
Otto Christ Carpell (November 12, 1889 – October 11, 1918) was an American college football player for the University of Michigan. He played halfback for the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1909 to 1912. He became an aviation combat pilot during World War I and was one of four Michigan football players to be killed in the war.
Carpell was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1889, the son of Maximillian A. and Elizabeth (Heydrich) Carpell.[1]
Carpell enrolled at the University of Michigan and played for the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1909 to 1912 under head coach Fielding H. Yost.
After graduating from Michigan, Carpell went into the real estate brokerage business in Detroit with an office in the
Following the United States entry into
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olivet Crimson (Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1913) | |||||||||
| 1913 | Olivet | 4–3 | 3–1 | 1st | |||||
| Olivet: | 4–3 | 3–1 | |||||||
| ) (1914) | |||||||||
| 1914 | Albion | 1–6 | |||||||
| Albion: | 5–9 | ||||||||
| Total: | 5–9 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth | |||||||||
References
- ^ "Michigan's Gold Star Record: World War I". Michigan History Magazine, Volume 29. 1945. p. 281.
- Newspapers.com.
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- ^ "Last Rites for Otto C. Carpell: Former Michigan Football Star Will Be Buried From His Late Saginaw Home Tuesday Morning". Detroit Free Press. October 15, 1918.
- ^ George Newman Fuller, Lewis Beeson (1922). "Historical News, Notes and Comment". Michigan History Magazine, Volume 6, No. 1. p. 18.
- ^ "In Honor of Michigan's 'M' Men Who Died In The War". The Michigan Alumnus. November 1921. p. 200.(a fourth Michigan letterman, Howard R. Smith, was also killed in the war, but he was not a varsity football player.
