John B. Price

Price pictured c. 1920 coaching at Franklin & Marshall
Biographical details
Born	(1883-09-13)September 13, 1883 St. Clair, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	May 11, 1952(1952-05-11) (aged 68) Norristown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater	Ursinus College[1]
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1906–1907	Slippery Rock
1908–1913	Ursinus
1914–1915	Trinity (CT)
1916–1917	Muhlenberg
1920–1923	Franklin & Marshall
Baseball
1909–1913	Ursinus
1915–1916	Trinity (CT)
1921–1923	Franklin & Marshall
Head coaching record
Overall	69–40–15 (football)

John Beadle Price (September 13, 1883 – May 11, 1952) was an American football and baseball coach and physician. He served as the head football coach at Slippery Rock State Normal School—now known as Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania—from 1906 to 1907, Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania from 1908 to 1913, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut from 1914 to 1915, Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania from 1916 to 1917, and Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania from 1920 to 1923, compiling a career college football coaching record of 69–40–15.

Early life, playing career, education, and military service

A native of St. Clair, Pennsylvania, Price attended Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, where he captained the football and baseball teams before graduating in 1905. Price earned a medical degree from the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia in 1914 and did postgraduate work at Harvard Medical School and the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. During World War I, he served a captain in the Medical Corps of the United States Army with the rank of captain.^[2]

Coaching career

Muhlenberg

Price was the football and baseball coach at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania.^[3] He coached the football team for the 1916 and 1917 seasons, amassing a record of 9–4–3.^[4]

Franklin & Marshall

Price served as the head football coach at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for four seasons, from 1920 to 1923, compiling a record of 20–10–5.^[5] While at Franklin & Marshall, Price coached future head coach Jonathan K. Miller.^[6]

Medical career and death

Price practiced medicine for 35 years as an ear, nose, and throat specialist. He was on staff at Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia and Montgomery Hospital in Norristown, Pennsylvania. He died on May 11, 1952, at his home in Norristown, following a week-long illness.^[2]

Head coaching record