West Virginia Mountaineers Football Head Coaches - Edwin Sweetland, Rich Rodriguez, Bobby Bowden, Sol Metzger, Don Nehlen, Bill Stewart (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 138. Not illustrated. Chapters: Edwin Sweetland, Rich Rodriguez, Bobby Bowden, Sol Metzger, Don Nehlen, Bill Stewart, Clarence Spears, Frank Cignetti, Sr., Greasy Neale, Jim Carlen, Art Lewis, Thomas Trenchard, C. A. Lueder, Ira Rodgers, Dudley Degroot, Bill Kern, Anthony Chez, Gene Corum, F. William Rane, Marshall Glenn, Harry E. Trout, Frederick Lincoln Emory, Clarence W. Russell, Harry Anderson, Mont Mcintyre, Carl Forkum, Louis Yeager, William P. Edmunds, George Krebs, John Hill, Harry Mccrory, Charles Tallman. Excerpt: Edwin Regur Sweetland (January 10, 1875 October 21, 1950) was a coach and athletic administrator at several 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. Even with mainly being known for football he was able to leave his mark on several other sports. He was the first paid coach of the Kentucky Wildcats basketball team and the Syracuse University Navy (rowing team). Sweetland attended Union College and was graduate of Cornell 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. Edwin 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 t...