Duke Nelson

Duke Nelson
Biographical details
Sport(s)	Football, baseball, ice hockey, lacrosse, golf
Born	(1907-04-26)April 26, 1907
Died	October 22, 1989(1989-10-22) (aged 82)
Alma mater	Middlebury College
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1938	Union (NY) (assistant)
1939–1941	RPI
1946–1968	Middlebury
Baseball
1933–1937	Middlebury
Ice hockey
1932–1936	Middlebury
1936–1939	Union (NY)
1946–1964	Middlebury
1981–1983	Middlebury (W)
Lacrosse
1954–1968	Middlebury

Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1946–1956	Middlebury (assistant AD)
1956–1969	Middlebury

Head coaching record
Overall	98–81–12 (football) 22–43–1 (baseball) 211–177–7 (men's ice hockey) 14–14–1 (women's ice hockey) 9–26–1 (lacrosse)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Football 2 Vermont State Conference (1948–1949)

Walter J. "Duke" Nelson (April 26, 1907 – October 22, 1989) was an American college athletics coach and administrator. He served as the head football coach at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) from 1939 to 1941 and at Middlebury College from 1946 to 1968 compiling a career college football coaching record of 98–81–12. At Middlebury, he teams won back-to-back Vermont State Conference championships in 1948 and 1949. Nelson graduated from Middlebury in 1932.^[1]

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Standing
RPI Engineers (Independent) (1939–1941)
1939	RPI	4–2–1
1940	RPI	7–1
1941	RPI	4–3
RPI:		15–6–2
Middlebury Panthers (Independent) (1946–1947)
1946	Middlebury	2–4–1
1947	Middlebury	6–1–1
Middlebury Panthers (Vermont State Conference) (1948–1950)
1948	Middlebury	7–1	T–1st
1949	Middlebury	4–2–1	1st
1950	Middlebury	3–4–1
Middlebury Panthers (Independent) (1951–1962)
1951	Middlebury	4–4
1952	Middlebury	2–5
1953	Middlebury	2–5
1954	Middlebury	4–2–1
1955	Middlebury	3–4
1956	Middlebury	4–3
1957	Middlebury	5–2
1958	Middlebury	4–3
1959	Middlebury	5–1–1
1960	Middlebury	5–1–1
1961	Middlebury	5–1–1
1962	Middlebury	5–2
Middlebury Panthers (Green Mountain Conference) (1963)
1963	Middlebury	2–5
Middlebury Panthers (Independent) (1964–1968)
1964	Middlebury	3–3–1
1965	Middlebury	2–5
1966	Middlebury	3–5
1967	Middlebury	2–6
1968	Middlebury	1–6–1
Middlebury:		83–75–10
Total:		98–81–12
National championship Conference title Conference division title

References

↑ "Walter "Duke" Nelson". Middlebury College Athletics. Retrieved July 19, 2016.

Union Dutchmen ice hockey
Formerly the Union Skating Dutchmen
Playing venues	Achilles Rink (1975–present)
Head coaches	Ambrose Clark (1919–1920, 1921–1924) Henry Gardner (1924–1925) H. A. Larrabee (1925–1930) William Harkness (1930–1933) H. L. Achilles (1933–1935) Art Lawrence (1935–1936, 1940–1942, 1947–1949) Duke Nelson (1936–1940) Ned Harkness (1975–1977) Bob Driscoll (1978) Charles Morrison (1978–1988) Bruce Delventhal (1988–1996) Stan Moore (1996–1998) Kevin Sneddon (1998–2003) Nate Leaman (2003–2011) Rick Bennett (2011–present)
Seasons	2013–14
Conference affiliations	ECAC West (1975–1991) ECAC Hockey (1991–present)
Rivalries	RPI Engineers
National championships	2014
Frozen Four appearances	2012 2014
NCAA Tournament appearances	2011 2012 2013 2014
Conference Tournament champions	ECAC: 2012 2013 2014
Union College Schenectady, NY

RPI Engineers head football coaches

No coach (1886)
No team (1887–1888)
No coach (1889)
No team (1890–1891)
No coach (1892–1906)
Elder (1907)
William Geiger (1908–1909)
H. R. Bankart (1910)
John Inglis (1911–1913)
Frank Gargan (1914)
A. J. Sturzenegger (1915)
Jack Reed (1916–1919)
Paul Graham (1920–1926)
Glenn Killinger (1927–1931)
Henry W. Krumpf (1932–1938)
Duke Nelson (1939–1941)
Paul Graham (1942–1945)
Edward A. Jontos (1946–1952)
Nick Skorich (1953)
John Coons (1954)
Richard S. Lyon (1955–1957)
Ed Hoffman (1958–1962)
Richard Riendeau (1963–1972)
Dave White (1973–1981)
Bob Ducatte (1982–1983)
Kevin Earl (1984–1988)
Joe King (1989–2010)
Tim Landis (2011)
Bob Bodor (2012)
Ralph Isernia (2013– )

Middlebury Panthers head football coaches

Unknown (1893–1894)
No team (1895)
Unknown (1896–1906)
David Austin (1907–1908)
Arthur J. Pierce (1909)
P. J. Keefe (1910–1912)
Frank Bergen (1913)
Joseph A. Francis (1914)
Edwin N. Holmes (1915–1917)
Arthur M. Brown (1918–1920)
Dave Morey (1921–1924)
Marshall Klevenow (1925–1927)
Ben Beck (1928–1941)
Samuel Guarnaccia (1942)
No team (1943)
P. J. Dranginis & C. W. Laird (1944)
Arthur M. Brown (1945)
Duke Nelson (1946–1968)
John W. Anderson (1969–1972)
Mickey Heinecken (1973–2000)
Bob Ritter (2001– )

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