William Newman (American football)
Biographical details | |
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Born | c. 1882 |
Died | July 11, 1964 (aged 82) |
Playing career | |
1904–1906 | Cornell |
Position(s) | Center |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1907 | Carlisle (line) |
1908–1909 | Georgetown |
1913 | Cornell (assistant) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 5–6–2 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Awards | |
Consensus All-American (1906) | |
William S. "Dusty" Newman (c. 1882 – July 11, 1964) was an American football player and coach. He was a first-team All-American center for Cornell University in 1906. He later coached football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as an assistant to Pop Warner in 1907 and at Georgetown University as the school's head coach from 1908 to 1909.
Playing career
Newman played at the
Coaching career
Newman graduated from Cornell in 1907. That fall, Warner took over as the head football coach of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Warner hired Newman as his line coach at Carlisle. Newman was an assistant coach at Carlisle in 1907. Newman later served as head coach at Georgetown in 1908 and 1909.[4] Newman was inducted into the Cornell University Hall of Fame in 1978.[5] In 1913, Newman returned to Cornell as an assistant football coach.[6]
Late life and death
Newman was a veterinarian and worked for the Bureau of Animal Husbandry. He spent time in the Western United States treating American bison in Yellowstone National Park. Newman was reassigned in 1924 to New York State, where he worked on the eradication of tuberculosis in animals. Newman was found dead at his home of a self-inflicted gunshot, on July 12, 1964. He was estimated to have died the previous evening.[7]
Head coaching record
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Georgetown Blue and Gray (Independent) (1908–1909) | |||||||||
1908 | Georgetown | 2–4–1 | |||||||
1909 | Georgetown | 3–2–1 | |||||||
Georgetown: | 5–6–2 | ||||||||
Total: | 5–6–2 |
References
- ^ Caspar Whitney (1907). "The View-Point". The Outing Magazine. p. 537.
- ^ "Prominent Figures in Three Decades of Cornell Football: New York Sun Writer Lists Players Who Have Been Conspicuous Figures on the Gridiron at Ithaca Since Early Nineties — Four Teams Selected" (PDF). Cornell Alumni News. February 3, 1927. p. 218.
- ^ "About Athletices" (PDF). Cornell Alumni News. June 29, 1933. p. 422.
- ^ "Newman to Coach Georgetown". The Cornell Daily Sun. April 11, 1908.
- ^ "William Newman Class of 1907". Cornell Big Red.
- ^ "No Big Red Team Yet: Cornell's Football Song Quite Inappropriate, Says College Paper". The New York Times. October 14, 1913.
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