Alva Kelley

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Alva E. Kelley
College	Colgate University
Sport	College football
Career highlights
Overall	31-39-2 (Brown) 9-18-0 (Colgate)
Playing career
1938-1940	Cornell University
Position	End
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1946-1949 1951-1958 1959-1961	Cornell (assistant coach) Brown Colgate

Alva E. Kelley was the 27th head football coach for the Colgate University Raiders located in the Village of Hamilton in Madison County, New York and he held that position for three seasons, from 1959 until 1961. His overall coaching record at Colgate was 9 wins, 18 losses, and 0 ties. This ranks him 12th at Colgate in terms of total wins and 27th at Colgate in terms of winning percentage. ^[1]

Kelley graduated from Cornell University in 1941 after playing three seasons of football under Carl Snavely, including the 1939 undefeated national championship season. He was assistant coach at Cornell from 1946 to 1949, before becoming head coach at Brown University and then Colgate. He was inducted into the Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame in 1980.

He also coached at Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y.

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