Glen Gray (American football), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Glen Gray (American football)

American football coach

Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1888

Place of Birth: Walsh, Ontario, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 07-Jun-1921

Profession: head coach, American football player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Glen Gray (American football)

  • Glen Carlton Gray (December 27, 1888 – June 7, 1921) was an American football and basketball player and coach.
  • He served as the head football coach at Oberlin College from 1911 to 1912 and at Washburn University from 1913 to 1915, compiling a career college football coaching record of 23–13–4.
  • Gray was also the head basketball coach at Oberlin in 1910–11 and 1912–13, tallying a mark of 17–7. Gray coached the Oberlin Yeomen in 1911 and 1912.
  • He went 13–2–1 in those two seasons.
  • Gray was the 13th head football coach for Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas and he held that position for three seasons, from 1913 until 1915.
  • His overall coaching record at Washburn was 11–10–3.Gray was accidentally shot to death in 1921 when he was mistaken for a bear during an assessment work party.
  • "Clad in a brown khaki shirt and trousers, Glen had gone into the brush to inspect one of his outlying oil lands.
  • An itinerant hunter who was stalking games in the nearby desert country mistook Gray's moving shape for game and shot him.
  • The great Glen Gray fell dead."Gray was born in Charlotteville, Ontario, Canada, and attended North Tonawanda High School, where he graduated in 1906.
  • He was a quarterback and kicker on the football team where he played for coach Ben Hinkey.
  • "Glen Gray as I remember him was not the agile, hip-swiveling runner many people might imagine," Hinkey recalled.
  • "He had, I believe, a wonderful change of pace and an ability to stop short when travelling at top speed, and then sidestepping a tackler quickly.
  • He was an awfully hard man to tackle, because his speed and stopping ability were so hard to judge."Gray also starred on the track team, where he was a long jumper.
  • He graduated in 1911.
  • He was inducted in the Oberlin College Sports Hall of Fame in 1986.

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