American physician
This article is about the college football player and coach. For the professional baseball player, see
Ed Herr .
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
[ 3] [ 8]
Notes
^ 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]
^ 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.
^ 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
^ "World War I Draft Registration Card" . fold3.com . September 1918. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
^ "World War II Draft Registration Card" . fold3.com . April 1942. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
^ a b "2017 New Hampshire Media Guide" . University of New Hampshire. 2017. p. 66. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
^ 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 .
^ a b c "Football Coach" . The Burlington Free Press . Burlington, Vermont . May 6, 1908. p. 8. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
^ "Saves Two Roxbury Girls" . The Boston Globe . August 10, 1906. p. 11. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
^ a b "Dr. Edward A. Herr" . Hartford Courant . Hartford, Connecticut . AP . March 19, 1950. p. 30. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
^ "Ariel vol. 23 (1910)" . Archived from the original on November 24, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015 .
# denotes interim head coach