Fred Dawson Explained

Fred Dawson
Birth Date:26 April 1884
Birth Place:Warren, Massachusetts, U.S.
Death Place:Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Coach Sport1:Football
Coach Years2:1912–1916
Coach Team2:Union (NY)
Coach Years3:1917
Coach Team3:Princeton (freshmen)
Coach Years4:1918–1919
Coach Team4:Columbia
Coach Years5:1921–1924
Coach Team5:Nebraska
Coach Years6:1925–1928
Coach Team6:Denver
Coach Years7:1931–1933
Coach Team7:Virginia
Coach Sport8:Basketball
Coach Years9:1912–1917
Coach Team9:Union (NY)
Coach Years10:1918–1919
Coach Team10:Columbia
Coach Sport11:Baseball
Coach Years12:1918
Coach Team12:Princeton
Coach Years13:1919
Coach Team13:Columbia
Admin Years1:1922–1925
Admin Team1:Nebraska
Overall Record:79–55–13 (football)
56–24 (basketball)
11–11 (baseball)

Frederick Thomas Dawson (April 26, 1884 – August 18, 1965) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Union College in Schenectady, New York (1912–1916), Columbia University (1918–1919), the University of Nebraska (1921–1924), the University of Denver (1925–1928), and the University of Virginia (1931–1933). Dawson also coached the basketball team at Columbia during the 1918–19 season and baseball at Princeton University in 1918 and at Columbia in 1919.

Early life

Dawson was born to Sylvester and Elizabeth Peers Dawson, the 11th of 12 children. Dawson was a 1910 graduate of Princeton University.

Later life

Health problems eventually forced Dawson to leave the coaching field. After retiring from coaching, he became an industrial psychologist and a well known public speaker. Dawson died on August 18, 1965, at a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska.[1]

Head coaching record

Football

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Notes and References

  1. News: Fred Dawson Dies; Ex-Football Coach . . . August 19, 1965 . June 27, 2011. (paywalled)
  2. Web site: Fred T. Dawson Records by Year. College Football Data Warehouse. November 24, 2010. David. DeLassus. August 5, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160805180735/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=548. dead.