Ray Keeler

Ray Keeler

Keeler from Wisconsin's 1914 yearbook
Sport(s) Football
Biographical details
Born April 24, 1891
Bagley, Wisconsin
Died November 8, 1945 (aged 54)
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Playing career
1912–1914 Wisconsin
Position(s) Guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1917–1929 Wisconsin State Teachers
Head coaching record
Overall 45–24–15
Accomplishments and honors

Championships

3 WIAC (1917, 1919, 1927)

Awards

Raymond Monroe "Tubby" Keeler (April 24, 1891[1] – November 8, 1945) was an American football player and coach.

Keeler attended the University of Wisconsin, where he played for the Wisconsin Badgers football team and was selected as a consensus first-team honoree at the guard position on the 1913 College Football All-America Team.[2] He was six feet tall and weighed 185 pounds during the 1913 season.[3] He also competed on the Wisconsin track team in the shot put and hammer throw events.[4]

Keeler later served as the head football coach at the Wisconsin State Teachers College—later renamed the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse—from 1917 to 1929. In 13 years as the head football coach, Keeler's teams won three conference championships and compiled a record of 45 wins, 24 losses, and 15 ties.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Draft registration card dated June 5, 1917, for Ray Monroe Keeler, born April 24, 1891, at Bagley, Wisconsin, employed as athletic coach at the Normal School in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line].
  2. ↑ "2012 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2012. p. 4. Retrieved August 15, 2014.
  3. ↑ 1914 University of Wisconsin yearbook, p. 234.
  4. ↑ University of Wisconsin yearbook, 1915, p. 272 (listing Raymond Monroe Wheeler as a letter winner for the track team in the shot put and hammer throw).
  5. ↑ Thomas Marshall (August 1967). "The Development of Football at Wisconsin State University - La Crosse" (PDF). Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin. p. 17.
  6. ↑ Don Kopriva, Jim Mott (2014). On Wisconsin!: A Celebration of Football, Basketball, and Other Badger Sports. Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. p. 30. ISBN 1613213425.