Erwin Righter

Erwin Righter
Medal record

Men's rugby union
Competitor for the United States
Olympic Games
Gold	1920 Antwerp	Team competition

Cornelius Erwin "Swede" Righter (March 7, 1897 – September 6, 1985) was a college football and basketball player and coach, and an American rugby union player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Righter attended Stanford University, where he played football and basketball. He was Stanford's first All-Pacific Coast Conference basketball player in 1920.^[1]

At the 1920 Olympics, Righter played on the American rugby union team that defeated France for the gold medal.

After his playing days, Righter coached basketball and football at the University of the Pacific from 1921 to 1932.

References

↑ "2006-2007 Stanford Basketball Media Guide" (PDF). Stanford Department of Athletics. p. 72. Retrieved 2007-08-31.

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Pacific Tigers head football coaches

Unknown (1895)
No team (1896–1897)
Unknown (1898–1899)
No team (1900–1918)
George Sperry (1919)
Paul McCoy (1920)
Erwin Righter (1921–1932)
Amos Alonzo Stagg (1933–1946)
Larry Siemering (1947–1950)
Ernie Jorge (1951–1952)
Jack Myers (1953–1960)
John Rohde (1961–1963)
Don Campora (1964–1965)
Doug Scovil (1966–1969)
Homer Smith (1970–1971)
Chester Caddas (1972–1978)
Bob Toledo (1979–1982)
Bob Cope (1983–1988)
Walt Harris (1989–1991)
Chuck Shelton (1992–1995)

Pacific Tigers men's basketball head coaches

Bob Atkinson (1910–1911)
James Travarrow (1911–1912)
Charles Sheldon (1912–1913)
Walter Case (1913–1914)
Bill Fletcher (1914–1915)
Frank Reeves (1915–1916)
George Sperry (1916–1920)
Ken Lilly (1920–1921)
Erwin Righter (1921–1933)
Larry Apitz (1933–1936)
Ralph Francis (1936–1942)
Chris Kjeldsen (1942–1952)
Van Sweet (1952–1963)
Dick Edwards (1963–1972)
Stan Morrison (1972–1979)
Dick Fitchner (1979–1982)
Tom O'Neill (1982–1988)
Denis Willens # (1988)
Bob Thomason (1988–2013)
Ron Verlin (2013– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.