Cornelius Erwin Righter

Cornelius Erwin "Swede" Righter (* 7. March 1897 in Campbell , California ; † 30th August 1985 in Englewood , Ohio ) was an American American football - basketball - and rugby union poker players and football coaches. His greatest success was the rugby Olympic victory with the US selection in 1920 .

Righter was a member of Stanford University's basketball, rugby and American football teams, and his main sport was football. As captain of the basketball team, he was the first Stanford player to be elected to the All Pacific Coast Conference selection in 1920 and 1921 and was inducted into the University Hall of Fame for his achievements.

After graduating in 1921, he was hired as the first full-time coach of the basketball and football teams at the University of the Pacific , which he stayed for 12 years.

After joining the University of the Pacific, he coached various smaller college and high school teams in northern California until his retirement in 1962. In 1935 he received his PhD in basketball training science from Stanford University.

Works

A preliminary study of the relation of personality traits to success in basketball , Diss., Stanford University Press 1935.

Web links

Cornelius Erwin Righter in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

^ Gary Migdol: Stanford: Home of Champions , Sports Publishing LLC 1997, ISBN 1-57167-116-1 , p. 62.
^ Sydney and Theodore Rosenberg Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame. (No longer available online.) Stanford University, Athletic Department, archived from the original July 11, 2011 ; accessed on August 18, 2009 .
^ Harold S. Jacoby, Pacific: Yesterday and the Day Before That , Comstock Bonanza Press 1989, ISBN 0-933994-09-5 , p. 148.

personal data
SURNAME	Righter, Cornelius Erwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Righter, Swede (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American football, rugby union, and basketball players and football coach
DATE OF BIRTH	March 7, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Campbell , California
DATE OF DEATH	August 30, 1985
Place of death	Englewood , Ohio

[1] Gary Migdol: Stanford: Home of Champions , Sports Publishing LLC 1997, ISBN 1-57167-116-1 , p. 62.

[2] Sydney and Theodore Rosenberg Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame. (No longer available online.) Stanford University, Athletic Department, archived from the original July 11, 2011 ; accessed on August 18, 2009 .

[3] Harold S. Jacoby, Pacific: Yesterday and the Day Before That , Comstock Bonanza Press 1989, ISBN 0-933994-09-5 , p. 148.