Fred Bennion, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Fred Bennion

American football and coach, basketball coach, baseball coach

Date of Birth: 24-Sep-1884

Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 02-Jan-1960

Profession: basketball coach

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Fred Bennion

  • Fred W.
  • Bennion (September 29, 1884 – January 1960) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball and baseball.
  • He served as the head football coach at the University of Utah from 1910 to 1913 and at the Agricultural College of the State of Montana—now Montana State University—from 1914 to 1917, compiling a career college football record of 27–15–8.
  • Bennion was also the head basketball coach at Brigham Young University (BYU) from 1908 to 1910, at Utah from 1911 to 1914, and at Montana Agricultural from 1914 to 1919, amassing a career college basketball record of 96–31.
  • In addition, He was the head baseball coach at BYU from 1909 to 1912, tallying a mark of 11–10. Bennion was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Utah.
  • He also studied agriculture at Montana State.
  • Following his coaching career, he worked as an agricultural agent in Umatilla County, Oregon and Montana during the 1920s.
  • He died in 1960 after a short illness.

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