Otis Lamson

Otis Lamson
Career information
Lamson pictured in Yackety Yack 1908, North Carolina yearbook
Date of birth	(1876-09-13)September 13, 1876
Place of birth	Beetown, Wisconsin
Date of death	December 11, 1956(1956-12-11) (aged 80)
Place of death	Seattle, Washington
College	Penn
Career history
As coach
1907	North Carolina
As player
1906	Massillon Tigers
Career highlights and awards
Consensus All-American (1905) Ohio League champion (1906)

Otis Floyd Lamson (September 13, 1876 – December 11, 1956) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1907. Prior to his coaching career, Lamson played college football while attending the University of Pennsylvania. He lettered for the Quakers in 1904 and 1905. In 1905, he earned All-American honors from Walter Camp. He was born in Beetown, Wisconsin in 1876.^[1]

In 1906, Lamson was hired by the Massillon Tigers to play for the team in the "Ohio League" championship. During that two game series, a betting scandal involving the Tigers and their rivial, the Canton Bulldogs, arose.

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall
North Carolina Tar Heels (South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1907)
1907	North Carolina	4–4–1
North Carolina:		4–4–1
Total:		4–4–1

References

↑ The National cyclopaedia of American biography: being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, Volume 44

Additional sources

"Blondy Wallace and the Biggest Football Scandal Ever" (PDF). PFRA Annual (Professional Football Researchers Association) 5: 1–16. 1984.

External links

Otis Lamson at the College Football Data Warehouse

North Carolina Tar Heels head football coaches

Hector Cowan (1888)
No coach (1889)
No team (1890)
William P. Graves (1891)
No coach (1892–1893)
Vernon K. Irvine (1894)
Thomas Trenchard (1895)
Gordon Johnston (1896)
William A. Reynolds (1897–1900)
Charles O. Jenkins (1901)
Herman Olcott (1902–1903)
R. R. Brown (1904)
Bill Warner (1905)
Willis Kienholz (1906)
Otis Lamson (1907)
Edward L. Greene (1908)
Arthur Brides (1909–1910)
Branch Bocock (1911)
C. W. Martin (1912)
Thomas Trenchard (1913–1915)
Thomas J. Campbell (1916)
No team (1917–1918)
Thomas J. Campbell (1919)
Myron Fuller (1920)
Bill Fetzer & Bob Fetzer (1921–1925)
Chuck Collins (1926–1933)
Carl Snavely (1934–1935)
Raymond Wolf (1936–1941)
Jim Tatum (1942)
Tom Young (1943)
Gene McEver (1944)
Carl Snavely (1945–1952)
George T. Barclay (1953–1955)
Jim Tatum (1956–1958)
Jim Hickey (1959–1966)
Bill Dooley (1967–1977)
Dick Crum (1978–1987)
Mack Brown (1988–1997)
Carl Torbush (1998–2000)
John Bunting (2001–2006)
Butch Davis (2007–2010)
Everett Withers (2011)
Larry Fedora (2012– )

1904 Penn Quakers football—national champions

Edward Bennis Bob Folwell Otis Lamson Frank Piekarski Andy Smith Vince Stevenson Robert Torrey Garfield Weede Head coach Carl S. Williams

1905 College Football All-America Team consensus selections

Backfield	QB Walter Eckersall QB Guy Hutchinson HB Jack Hubbard HB Daniel Hurley HB Howard Roome HB Henry Torney FB Jim McCormick

Line	E Mark Catlin, Sr. E Ralph Glaze E Tom Shevlin T Karl Brill T Otis Lamson T Beaton Squires G Francis Burr G Roswell Tripp C Robert Torrey

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