Walter F. Kelly
Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball |
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Biographical details | |
Born |
Bradford, Massachusetts | January 13, 1874
Died |
March 1, 1961 87) Irvington, Indiana | (aged
Playing career | |
Football | |
1895–1896 | Dartmouth |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1897 | Texas |
1898 | Texas (assistant) |
1899–1903 | Butler |
Basketball | |
1899–1903 | Butler |
Baseball | |
1901–1905 | Butler |
1908 | Butler |
Head coaching record | |
Overall |
11–18–1 (football) 6–8 (basketball) 7–21–1 (baseball) |
Walter Frederic "Mike" Kelly (January 13, 1874 – March 1, 1961) was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and physician. He served as the head football coach at University of Texas at Austin in 1897 and at Butler University from 1899 to 1903, compiling a career college football record of 11–18–1. Kelly was also the head basketball coach at Butler from 1899 to 1903, tallying a mark of 6–8, and was the school's head baseball caoch from 1901 to 1905 and again in 1908, amassing a record of 7–21–1. Before his tenure at Butler, Kelly served as a Texas assistant coach to David Farragut Edwards in 1898. While coaching at Butler, he pursued a medical degree at Indiana Medical College, from which he graduated in 1906.[1][2]
Head coaching record
Football
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Texas Longhorns (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1897) | |||||||||
1897 | Texas | 6–2 | |||||||
Texas: | 6–2 | ||||||||
Butler Bulldogs (Independent) (1899–1903) | |||||||||
1899 | Butler | 1–4 | |||||||
1900 | Butler | 1–3 | |||||||
1901 | Butler | 2–1–1 | |||||||
1902 | Butler | 1–5 | |||||||
1903 | Butler | 0–3 | |||||||
Butler: | 5–16–1 | ||||||||
Total: | 11–18–1 |
References
- ↑ Emerson, Charles Franklin (1911). General Catalogue of Dartmouth College and the Associated Schools 1769-1910. Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press. p. 394. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
- ↑ White, James Terry (1967). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. 48. Retrieved October 31, 2011.