Henry W. Clark
American football player and coach (1899–1976)
Biographical details | |
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Born | (1899-04-11)April 11, 1899 Wrangell, Alaska, U.S. |
Died | March 23, 1976(1976-03-23) (aged 76) Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. |
Playing career | |
1918 | Stanford |
1921–1922 | Harvard |
Position(s) | Center |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1923 | Harvard (line) |
1925 | Trinity (CT) |
1932 | US Olympic Team (advisory coach) |
Ice Hockey | |
1936–1941 | Lafayette |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1928–1935 | Harvard (assistant AD) |
1935–1944 | Lafayette |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 1–5 |
Henry Wadsworth "Eskie" Clark ( April 11, 1899 – March 23, 1976) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut for one season, in 1925, compiling a record of 1–5.[1] Clark was the athletic director at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania from 1935 to 1944.[2]
Clark was born in Wrangell, Alaska. After attending Phillips Exeter Academy, he played football as a center and was a shot putter on the track and field team at Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1923. Clark died on March 23, 1976, in Silver Spring, Maryland.[3]
Head coaching record
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Trinity Bantams (Independent) (1925) | |||||||||
1925 | Trinity | 1–5 | |||||||
Trinity: | 1–5 | ||||||||
Total: | 1–5 |
References
- ^ Who's Who in American Sports. National Biographical Society. 1928. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
- ^ "Eskie Clark Farewell Banquet". thecrimson.com. Retrieved April 15, 2018.
- ^ "H. W. Clark, Harvard official". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. March 26, 1976. p. 41. Retrieved August 10, 2019 – via Newspapers.com .
External links
- Henry W. Clark at Find a Grave
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- Lucius Robinson (1889)
- No coach (1890)
- Russell Lee Jones (1891)
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- Everett J. Lake (1897)
- No coach (1898)
- Albert Fulton (1899)
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- Frederick S. Bacon (1902)
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- J. J. Welch (1904)
- Clinton Landefeld (1905–1907)
- Raymond G. Gettell (1908–1913)
- John B. Price (1914–1915)
- James L. Cole (1916)
- Robert S. Morris (1917)
- Art Howe (1918)
- Thomas D. Shepherd (1919)
- Harry Lamberton (1920)
- Harold Drew (1921–1923)
- Paul Becker (1924)
- Henry W. Clark (1925)
- Johnny Merriman (1926–1928)
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- Dan Jessee (1932–1942)
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- Jeff Devanney (2006–2019)
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