Leon Exelby
Leon C. "Ex" Exelby (1888 – September 29, 1962) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He played college football at Michigan Agricultural College—now known as Michigan State University—from 1907 to 1910. He was captain of the 1910 Michigan Agricultural team. Playing as a fullback, he was selected by Walter Eckersall to the 1910 All-Western college football team.[1] Exelby served as the head football coach at the University of Wyoming for one season in 1912, compiling a record of 2–7. He was also Wyoming's head basketball coach that academic year, 1912–13, tallying a mark of 2–5. Exelby died on September 29, 1962, in Owosso, Michigan.[2]
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1888 |
| Died | September 29, 1962 Owosso, Michigan |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1907–1910 | Michigan Agricultural |
| Position(s) | Fullback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1912 | Wyoming |
| Basketball | |
| 1912–1913 | Wyoming |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 2–7 (football) 2–5 (basketball) |
Head coaching record
Football
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming Cowboys (Rocky Mountain Conference) (1912) | |||||||||
| 1912 | Wyoming | 2–7 | 0–5 | 7th | |||||
| Wyoming: | 2–7 | 0–5 | |||||||
| Total: | 2–7 | ||||||||
gollark: I prefer potatOS superglobals, which are shared across all computers.
gollark: Never mind the certainly huge amount of bugs which could emerge from some hours running twice, or not at all, and the extreme hassle of dealing with also having to translate pre-DST-implementation and post-DST-implementation dates!
gollark: Why not just MEDDLE WITH THE VERY FABRIC OF TIME ITSELF instead of changing working hours?
gollark: Tired of getting up at times which don't... align with the sun, or something?
gollark: It's a bad solution to a problem which I don't think even exists, which creates nightmares for programmers everywhere.
References
- Walter H. Eckersall (November 27, 1910). "All Western Team Picked". Chicago Tribune.
- Alderton, George S. (October 3, 1962). "The Sports Grist (continued)". Lansing State Journal. Lansing, Michigan. p. E-4. Retrieved June 10, 2019 – via Newspapers.com
External links
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.