Art Kahler

Art Kahler
Coach Arthur D. Kahler
Sport(s)	College football Basketball Track and Field
Current position
Team	Southwestern College (Kansas)
Biographical details
Born	December 27, 1897(1897-12-27)
Died	April 23, 1982(1982-04-23) (aged 84)
Playing career
1918–1922	Southwestern
Position(s)	football, basketball
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1946–1947 1947–1948 1935-1941 1931–1938	Southwestern (football) Southwestern (basketball) Dickinson (football) Brown (basketball)
Head coaching record
Overall	41-29-6 (football)
Statistics
College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
Kansas Sports Hall of Fame, 1974[1]

Arthur D. Kahler (December 27, 1897 – April 23, 1982) was an American college football and basketball player and coach. He was listed in "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" as only person to coach at two different major colleges at the same time - head basketball coach at Brown University and football coach at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.^[1] He later became a coach and Athletic Director at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas.

Contents 1 Playing history 2 Coaching history 2.1 Brown University/Dickinson College 2.2 Southwestern College 3 References 4 External links

Playing history

Kahler played football at Southwestern from 1918 until 1922. Walter Camp referred him as "a line of power" when he played Camp wrote high praises for his playing ability based on his senior year of 1922.^[2]

Coaching history

Brown University/Dickinson College

Kahler coached Men's Basketball at Brown University from 1931 to 1938.^[3] At the same time, he was head football coach at Dickinson College,^[4] even though the schools are over 350 miles apart.^[5] Kahler coached his 100th football victory at Dickinson and also introduced night football to the school.^[6] He coached at Dickinson college from 1935 to 1941 and posted a record of 27 wins, 25 losses, and 5 ties. He was the 23rd head football coach at Dickinson and is ranked fourth in total wins and 12th in winning percentage. ^[7]

Southwestern College

Kahler was the 11th football coach for the Southwestern College Moundbuilders in Winfield, Kansas and held that position two seasons, 1946 and 1947. His overall coaching record at Southwestern was 14 wins, 4 losses, and 1 ties. This ranks him 12th at Southwestern in terms of total wins and 2nd at Southwestern in terms of total winning percentage (as of completion of the 2007 season).^[8]

Kahler also served as the Men's Basketball coach at Southwestern for the 1947 and 1948 seasons, with an overal basketball record of 13 wins and 13 losses.^[9] He also served as the athletic director of the school as well as coach of the track and field teams.

Southwestern honored the memory of Kahler by naming the football field "Art Kahler Field."^[10]

In 1974, Kahler was inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame^[1]

References

External links

Southwestern Moundbuilders head football coaches Unknown (1895) No team (1896–1900) Unknown (1901–1902) J. J. Thiel (1903–1904) Harry Huston (1905) Jay Mack Love (1906–1907) Frank Armin (1908) Fred Clapp (1909–1913) Willis Bates (1914–1925) William Monypenny (1926–1936) Don Copper (1937–1939) Richard C. Nolan (1940–1941) Henry Brock (1942) No team (1943–1945) Art Kahler (1946–1947) Fred Dittman (1948) Harold Hunt (1949–1951) Bill Carroll (1952–1953) Robert Hower (1954–1958) Bob Dvorak (1959–1961) Ray Morrison (1962–1963) Harold Elliott (1964–1968) Wes Buller (1969–1971) Jim Paramore (1972–1976) Phil Hower (1977–1980) Dennis Franchione (1981–1982) Charlie Cowdrey (1983–1991) Jake Cabell (1992) Monty Lewis (1992–2001) Chris Douglas (2002–2006) Ken Crandall (2007– )

Dickinson Red Devils head football coaches Nathan Stauffer (1896–1899) Sam Boyle (1900) Ralph Hutchinson (1901) Charles P. Hutchins (1902–1903) Forrest Craver (1904) J. William Williams (1905–1906) Joseph Pipal (1907) Paul J. Davis (1908) Paul G. Smith (1909) J. Troutman Gougler (1910) Thomas Crooks (1910) Simon F. Pauxtis (1911–1912) S. W. Harrington (1913–1914) Francis Dunn (1915) No team (1916) Francis Dunn (1917) Forrest Craver (1918–1921) Glenn Killinger (1922) B. Russell Murphy (1923) Joseph Lightner (1923–1925) S. Marsh Johnson (1926) Robert Duffy (1927–1928) Percy W. Griffiths (1929–1930) Joseph H. McCormick (1931–1934) Art Kahler (1935–1941) Benjamin James (1942) No team (1943–1945) Ralph Ricker (1946–1949) Frank Maze (1950–1951) Alured Ransom (1952–1954) Brinton Piez (1955–1956) Donald Seibert (1957–1963) W. J. Gobrecht (1965–1979) Raymond Erney (1980–1983) W. J. Gobrecht (1984) Ed Sweeney (1985–1992) Darwin Breaux (1993– )

Brown Bears men's basketball head coaches Ed Benjamin (1900–1901) Charles Ray (1901–1902) Paul DeWolf (1902–1903) Henry Ahrens (1903–1904) Paul DeWolf (1904–1905) Oscar Rackle (1905–1906) W. W. Reynolds (1906–1907) J. Donald Pryor (1907–1909) Walter White (1909–1910) J. Russell McKay (1910–1912) No team (1912–1918) Louis Pieri (1918–1919) Ed Freeman (1919–1920) Florence Harvey (1920–1921) Walter Snell (1921–1923) Harold Evans (1923–1926) Tuss McLaughry (1926–1929) Rufus Bond (1929–1931) Art Kahler (1931–1938) George E. Allen (1938–1941) Tippy Dye (1941–1942) Rip Engle (1942–1946) Weeb Ewbank (1946–1947) Robert Morris (1947–1954) L. Stanley Ward (1954–1969) J. Gerald Alaimo (1969–1978) Joe Mullaney (1978–1981) Mike Cingiser (1981–1991) Frank Dobbs (1991–1999) Glen Miller (1999–2006) Craig Robinson (2006–2008) Jesse Agel (2008– )

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Date of birth	December 27, 1897
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Date of death	April 23, 1982
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