Edward Herr

Edward Albert Herr[lower-alpha 1] (January 4, 1883 – March 18, 1950) was an American player and head coach of college football, and a physician.

This article is about the college football player and coach. For the professional baseball player, see Ed Herr.
Edward Herr
Herr in The New Hampshire College Monthly of December 1906
Biographical details
Born(1883-01-04)January 4, 1883[1]
Waterbury, Connecticut[2]
DiedMarch 18, 1950(1950-03-18) (aged 67)[3]
Waterbury, Connecticut
Alma materDartmouth College
University of Vermont
Playing career
1902–1905Dartmouth
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1906–1907New Hampshire
1908Vermont
Head coaching record
Overall6–13–6

Biography

Herr was a 1906 graduate of Dartmouth College, where he played football for four years as a halfback and end.[5][6] He then served as head coach of the New Hampshire football team in 1906 and 1907,[lower-alpha 2] and for the Vermont football team in 1908.[6] In his three seasons as a head coach, Herr compiled an overall 6–13–6 record, for a .360 winning percentage.

In August 1906, Herr saved two women from drowning following a canoe accident in Squam Lake in New Hampshire.[7] Following his time as a head coach, Herr earned his medical degree at the University of Vermont and went on to practice medicine in Hartford, Connecticut; Boston, Massachusetts; and Waterbury, Connecticut.[3] He died in March 1950 at Saint Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, following a brief illness.[3]

Head coaching record
Year Team Overall ConferenceStanding Bowl/playoffs
New Hampshire (Independent) (1906–1907[lower-alpha 3])
1906 New Hampshire 2–5–1
1907 New Hampshire 1–5–2
New Hampshire: 3–10–3
Vermont (Independent) (1908)
1908 Vermont 3–3–3
Vermont: 3–3–3
Total:6–13–6

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Notes
  1. New Hampshire's media guide lists his middle initial as 'R';[4] however, contemporary sources from the early 1900s refer to him as E. A. Herr.[5]
  2. The school was then named New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts; it would become the University of New Hampshire in 1923 and would adopt the Wildcats nickname in 1926.
  3. New Hampshire's media guide also lists Herr as their head coach for the 1905 season. However, this is not corroborated by contemporary sources, he was a student at Dartmouth through the 1905–06 academic year, and upon his hiring at Vermont it was noted that he had been coach at New Hampshire for the prior two years.[6]

References
  1. "World War I Draft Registration Card". fold3.com. September 1918. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  2. "World War II Draft Registration Card". fold3.com. April 1942. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  3. "Dr. Edward A. Herr". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. AP. March 19, 1950. p. 30. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  4. "2017 New Hampshire Media Guide". University of New Hampshire. 2017. p. 66. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  5. "The Football Outlook". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 14 no. 1. October 1906. p. 3. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  6. "Football Coach". The Burlington Free Press. Burlington, Vermont. May 6, 1908. p. 8. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  7. "Saves Two Roxbury Girls". The Boston Globe. August 10, 1906. p. 11. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 24, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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