David F. Weeks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

David F. Weeks

American football player and coach

Date of Birth: 31-Jul-1874

Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, United States

Date of Death: 15-Mar-1929

Profession: head coach, American football player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

David Fairchild Weeks (July 31, 1874 – March 15, 1929) was an American football player, coach, and doctor.
He was the first head football coach at Massachusetts Agricultural College—now the University of Massachusetts Amherst, holding the position for one season, in 1898, and compiling a record of 1–4–1.
Weeks graduated in 1897 from the University of Pennsylvania and played quarterback for the Penn Quakers football team. Weeks was born in 1874 to Henry Martin Weeks, a doctor, and Mary Malvina Fairchild Weeks.
He married Maude Adele Clampitt in Pennsylvania in 1902. Weeks later practiced medicine after his graduation from Penn, briefly in Pennsylvania and his home state of New Jersey.
Weeks also was involved in the research of nervous system and mental illnesses, (primarily epilepsy) also serving as Superintendent and Medical Director of the New Jersey State Village for Epileptics at Skillman, New Jersey from December 1907 until his sudden death from heart disease in 1929.He is buried in Blawenburg Reformed Church Cemetery in Somerset County, New Jersey.