Prentiss Douglass

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Prentiss Douglass
Prentiss Douglass cropped from 1908 Michigan football team photograph
Sport(s)	Football
Biographical details
Born	June 1887 Martinsville, Illinois
Died	November 9, 1949(1949-11-09) (aged 62) Lexington, Kentucky
Playing career
1907–1908	Michigan
Position(s)	Halfback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1909–1910 1911 1912–1919	Michigan (assistant) Kentucky Michigan (assistant)

Prentiss Porter Douglass (June 1887 – November 9, 1949) was an American football player and coach.

Assistant coach in 1916

He was a native of Martinsville, Illinois who graduated from the Culver Military Academy and the University of Michigan. He played football for Fielding H. Yost's 1907 and 1908 Michigan Wolverines football teams at the halfback position. After graduating from Michigan in 1909, he served as an assistant football coach at Michigan during the 1909 and 1910 football seasons. In 1911, he was the head football coach at the University of Kentucky. His 1911 Kentucky team finished the season with 7 wins and 3 losses. Kentucky was unscored upon in its first four games, surrendering six points to the University of Cincinnati in the fifth game. The season's highlights included the final two games, victories against Centre College and the University of Tennessee. After one year at Kentucky, Douglass returned to the University of Michigan where he served as an assistant football coach from 1912 to 1919. He retired from football after the 1919 season to go into business. Douglass died of a heart ailment in Lexington, Kentucky in 1949 at age 62.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ "Prentiss Douglass, Ex-Grid Coach, Dead". Syracuse Herald-Journal. 1949-11-10.
↑ "Ex-Wolverine Dies". The Holland Evening Sentinel. 1949-11-10.

Kentucky Wildcats head football coaches

A. M. Miller (1892)
John Thompson (1893)
W. P. Finney (1894)
Charles B. Mason (1895)
Dudley Short (1896)
Lyman Eaton (1897)
W. R. Bass (1898–1899)
W. H. Kiler (1900–1901)
E. W. McLeod (1902)
Jack Wright (1903)
Fred Schacht (1904–1905)
J. White Guyn (1906–1908)
Edwin Sweetland (1909–1910)
Prentiss Douglass (1911)
Edwin Sweetland (1912)
Alpha Brummage (1913–1914)
J. J. Tigert (1915–1916)
Stanley A. Boles (1917)
Andrew Gill (1918–1919)
William Juneau (1920–1922)
Jack Winn (1923)
Fred Murphy (1924–1926)
Harry Gamage (1927–1933)
Chet Wynne (1934–1937)
Albert Kirwan (1938–1944)
Bernie Shively (1945)
Bear Bryant (1946–1953)
Blanton Collier (1954–1961)
Charlie Bradshaw (1962–1968)
John Ray (1969–1972)
Fran Curci (1973–1981)
Jerry Claiborne (1982–1989)
Bill Curry (1990–1996)
Hal Mumme (1997–2000)
Guy Morriss (2001–2002)
Rich Brooks (2003–2009)
Joker Phillips (2010–2012 )
Mark Stoops (2013– )

v t e 1918 Michigan Wolverines football—national champions

Theo Adams Ted Boville Abe Cohn Frank Czysz Robert J. Dunne William Fortune Paul Freeman Angus Goetz Arthur Karpus Mike Knode Chester Morrison John Perrin Frank Steketee Eddie Usher Ernie Vick Head coach: Fielding H. Yost Assistant coach: Prentiss Douglass Trainer: George May

Persondata
Name	Douglass, Prentiss
Alternative names
Short description	American football player and coach
Date of birth	1887
Place of birth	Martinsville, Illinois
Date of death	November 9, 1949
Place of death	Lexington, Kentucky

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