Edward Herr
Herr in The New Hampshire College Monthly of December 1906
Biographical details
Born(1883-01-04)January 4, 1883[1]
Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.[2]
DiedMarch 18, 1950(1950-03-18) (aged 67)
Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Vermont
Playing career
1902–1905Dartmouth
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1906–1907New Hampshire
1908Vermont
Head coaching record
Overall6–13–6

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

Biography

Herr was a 1906 graduate of Dartmouth College, where he played football for four years as a halfback and end.[4][5] He then served as head coach of the New Hampshire football team in 1906 and 1907,[b] and for the Vermont football team in 1908.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7] He died in March 1950 at Saint Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, following a brief illness.[7]

Head coaching record

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
New Hampshire (Independent) (1906–1907[c])
1906 New Hampshire 2–5–1
1907 New Hampshire 1–5–2
New Hampshire: 3–10–3
Vermont Green and Gold (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';[3] however, contemporary sources from the early 1900s refer to him as E. A. Herr.[4]
  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.[5]

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. ^ a b "2017 New Hampshire Media Guide". University of New Hampshire. 2017. p. 66. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  4. ^ a b "The Football Outlook". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 14, no. 1. October 1906. p. 3. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  5. ^ a b c "Football Coach". The Burlington Free Press. Burlington, Vermont. May 6, 1908. p. 8. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Saves Two Roxbury Girls". The Boston Globe. August 10, 1906. p. 11. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  7. ^ a b "Dr. Edward A. Herr". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. AP. March 19, 1950. p. 30. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Ariel vol. 23 (1910)". Archived from the original on November 24, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
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