William H. J. Beckett
William Henry Jackson Beckett (1882 – March 15, 1954) was an American football coach.
Biographical details | |
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Born | 1882 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Died | St. Louis, Missouri | March 15, 1954 (aged 71)
Alma mater | International YMCA (BA, 1906) Pennsylvania (MA) |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1917 | Howard |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1917 | Howard |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 0–4 |
Springfield YMCA Training School
Becket was the first person to ever be awarded a degree at Springifeld College–then known as the International YMCA Training School–in Springfield, Massachusetts.[1] He was awarded the school's Tarbell Medallion in 1947.[2]
Howard University
Beckett became the head football coach and first full-time athletic director at Howard University in Washington, D.C. in 1917.[3]
Late life and death
Beckett taught psychical education at Sumner High School in St. Louis, Missouri for 35 years before retiring in 1954. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage on March 15, 1954, at Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis.[4]
Head coaching record
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Howard Bison (Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1917) | |||||||||
1917 | Howard | 0–4 | 0–3 | 4th | |||||
Howard: | 0–4 | 0–3 | |||||||
Total: | 0–4 |
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References
- "William Beckett Obituary in St. Lois Argus". digitalcommonwealth.org. March 13, 1954. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
- "Tarbell Medallion Recipients". Springfield College. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
- Logan, Rayford W. (1969). "Howard University: the First Hundred Years, 1867-1967". NYU Press. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
- "William Beckett Funeral; Active In Negro Recreation". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. St. Louis, Missouri. March 16, 1954. p. 19. Retrieved October 25, 2019 – via Newspapers.com
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