Charles "Poss" Parsons
American football player and coach (1892–1942)
Biographical details | |
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Born | (1892-05-03)May 3, 1892 Mason City, Iowa, U.S. |
Died | August 26, 1942(1942-08-26) (aged 50) West Yellowstone, Montana, U.S. |
Alma mater | University of Iowa |
Playing career | |
1911–1914 | Iowa |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1915–1916 | Trinity College (IA) |
1917 | Colorado Mines |
1919–1921 | Colorado College |
Basketball | |
1919–1922 | Colorado College |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1916–1917 | Trinity College (IA) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 18–10–2 (football, excluding Trinity) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
1921–1922 Colorado College Men's Basketball MSAC Regular Season Championship | |
Charles Lyman "Poss" Parsons (May 3, 1892 – August 26, 1942) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the Colorado School of Mines in 1916 and Colorado College from 1919 to 1921.[1]
Parsons was the sports editor at the Denver Post from 1922–1941, and was posthumously inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame (Class of 1982).[2]
Parsons died at his home in West Yellowstone, Montana, on August 26, 1942, at the age of 50.[3]
References
- ^ Who's Who in American Sports. National Biographical Society. 1928. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
- ^ Charles "Poss" Parsons – Inducted 1982. Colorado Sports Hall of Fame. 1982. Retrieved September 12, 2023.
- ^ "C. L. "Poss" Parsons, Sports Writer, Dies at Hebgen Lake". Butte, Montana: The Butte Daily Post. August 27, 1942. p. 11. Retrieved April 21, 2024.
External links
- Sports-Reference College Football Coach profile
- Sports-Reference College Basketball Coach profile
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Colorado Mines Orediggers head football coaches
- Unknown (1888–1895)
- Louis Mein Whitehouse (1896)
- Conrad F. Goss (1897)
- Thomas Beadle (1898–1903)
- Shorty Ellsworth (1904–1907)
- Clarence W. Russell (1908)
- Joe Curtis (1909)
- Theodore M. Stuart (1910–1911)
- William E. Johnston & Erle Kristler (1912)
- Harry G. Buckingham & Erle Kristler (1913)
- Bo Hanley (1914–1915)
- Fred G. Carter (1916)
- Charles "Poss" Parsons (1917)
- Irving J. Barron (1918)
- Ralph Glaze (1919–1920)
- Elmer Capshaw (1921)
- Elmer Capshaw & Tim Callahan (1922)
- Tim Callahan (1923)
- Ray Courtright (1924–1926)
- George H. Allen (1927–1930)
- George H. Allen & Elmer Wynne (1931–1932)
- Dutch Clark (1933)
- George W. Scott (1934–1935)
- Alfred F. "Red" White (1936)
- John Mason (1937–1943)
- No team (1944–1945)
- John Mason (1946)
- Fritz S. Brennecke (1947–1968)
- Marvin L. Kay (1969–1994)
- Versie Wallace (1995–1999)
- Bob Stitt (2000–2014)
- Gregg Brandon (2015–2019)
- No team (2020)
- Gregg Brandon (2021)
- Brandon Moore (2022)
- Pete Sterbick (2023– )