Walter D. Powell
Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball |
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Biographical details | |
Born |
Reedsburg, Wisconsin | July 15, 1891
Died |
September 15, 1967 76) Gastonia, North Carolina | (aged
Playing career | |
Football | |
1912–1913 | Wisconsin |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1914–1916 | Western Reserve |
1919 | Montana State |
1920 | Stanford |
Basketball | |
1914–1917 | Western Reserve |
1919–1920 | Montana State |
1920–1921 | Stanford |
Baseball | |
1915 | Western Reserve |
Head coaching record | |
Overall |
19–21–1 (football) 36–27 (basketball) 5–3 (baseball) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Football 1 OAC (1915) |
Walter Daniel Powell (July 15, 1891 – September 15, 1967) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He was born in Reedsburg, Wisconsin.[1]
Powell played college football at Wisconsin from 1912 to 1913.[2][3] He coached several sports at Western Reserve from 1914 to 1917, amassing an overall 14–15 record in football, 18–24 record in basketball, and a 5–3 record in baseball.[4] He coached one season at Montana State from 1919 to 1920, where his football record was 1–3–1 and his basketball record was a perfect 13–0.[5]
From 1920 to 1921, Powell coached Stanford's football and basketball teams, where he compiled a football record of 4–3 and a basketball record of 15–3.[5]
In 1967, he died at Gastonia, North Carolina.[6]
Head coaching record
Football
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Western Reserve (Ohio Athletic Conference) (1914–1916) | |||||||||
1914 | Western Reserve | 4–6 | 2–4 | 9th | |||||
1915 | Western Reserve | 7–2 | 6–1 | 1st | |||||
1916 | Western Reserve | 3–7 | 3–4 | 8th | |||||
Western Reserve: | 14–15 | 11–9 | |||||||
Montana State Bobcats (Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic Conference) (1919) | |||||||||
1919 | Montana State | 1–3–1 | 0–3 | NA | |||||
Montana State: | 1–3–1 | 0–3 | |||||||
Stanford (Pacific Coast Conference) (1920) | |||||||||
1920 | Stanford | 4–3 | 2–1 | 2nd | |||||
Stanford: | 4–3 | 2–1 | |||||||
Total: | 19–21–1 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title |
References
- ↑ https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K6F8-VLF
- ↑ "2009 Wisconsin Football Fact Book" (PDF). p. 244. Retrieved December 28, 2009.
- ↑ Bruckman, C. A. (December 29, 1920). "Powell picks Bruin squad to beat Ohio State". Deseret News. Retrieved December 28, 2009.
- ↑ "Walter D. Powell". Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved December 28, 2009.
- 1 2 "Walter D. Powell". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved December 28, 2009.
- ↑ https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FP3S-JQN