Colgate Raiders Football Coaches - Alva Kelley, Andrew Kerr, Bill Warner, Bob Deming, Bob Hatch, Charles B. Mason, Chris Palmer (American Football), CL (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Alva Kelley, Andrew Kerr, Bill Warner, Bob Deming, Bob Hatch, Charles B. Mason, Chris Palmer (American football), Cliff Speegle, Danny Hale (American football), Darren Rizzi, Dean Hood, Dick Biddle, Dick Harlow, Earl Abell, Edwin Sweetland, Ed Sweeney (American football), Ellery Huntington, Jr., Frank "Buck" O'Neill, Frank Gansz, Frank Sommers, Frederick Dunlap (American football), Fred Rice, George Hauser, Gus Brown (American football), Hal Lahar, Harold McDevitt, Jack E. Ingersoll, James Cregg, Jerry Delaney, Jim Butterfield (American football), Joe Trainer, Joseph A. Short, Joseph Colnon, Joseph Stannard (American football), Joseph W. Brooks, Karl J. Lawrence, Kevin Callahan, L. Jay Caldwell, Laurence Bankart, Lloyd Jordan, Marty Fine, Michael Foley (American football), Mike Whalen, Milt Bruhn, Neil Wheelwright, Paul Bixler, Preston Smith (American football), Rick Comegy, Rocky Rees, Samuel Colgate, Jr., Seymour "Red" Kelin, Spencer Ford (American football), Wesley Englehorn. Excerpt: Edwin Regur Sweetland (January 10, 1875 - October 21, 1950) was a coach and athletic administrator at several American universities. During his coaching career he was head coach of many sports including basketball, track and field and crew, but the majority of for his coaching work was in football. Though mainly known for football, he left his mark on several other sports. He was the first paid coach of the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team and the Syracuse University rowing team. Sweetland attended Union College and was graduate of Cornell University in 1899. A gifted athlete, Sweetland was on the varsity football team at Union and Cornell and the varsity rowing team at Cornell. At Cornell he was coached by Hall of Fame coaches Pop Warner in football and Charles E. Courtney in rowing. Sweetland was born to George Sweetland and Hannah Marsh Sweetland on January 10, 1875 in Dryden, New York. He had several brothers and sisters. One of his brothers was Monroe Marsh Sweetland, who founded Delta Chi fraternity while a law student at Cornell University. Another brother, Dr. George James Sweetland, was captain of the Union College football team in 1895 and later the athletic director and head football coach at University of North Dakota. After attending Union College for one year, Sweetland transferred to Cornell University, where he graduated in 1899 with a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture. At Cornell, he was member of Phi Gamma Delta and the Sphinx Head Society. A talented athlete, Sweetland rowed on the varsity crew team, and played tackle on the football team at Cornell. Sweetland was a considered one of the top players in the early years of Big Red football. The Sun named Sweetland to the second team of the all-time Cornell football team in an article on January 29, 1927. E. R. Sweetland in his Cornell letterman sweater c. 1898-99 Sweetland began his college football career in 1894. "Sweet" as he was nicknamed, played guard for Union College along with