Dudley DeGroot

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Dudley Sargent DeGroot (born November 10, 1899 in Chicago , Illinois , † May 5, 1970 in El Cajon , California ) was an American football and rugby union player and later a successful college and NFL coach. DeGroot was with the US selection 1924 rugby union Olympic champion and as a college football player an All-American in the same year ; After his time as an active athlete, he successfully coached numerous college football teams, as well as several professional teams in the 1940s, including the Washington Redskins in 1944/45 .

athlete

DeGroot was a multi-talented athlete; he was a member of the Stanford University teams in water polo and basketball , and in 1922 he became the captain of the football team as the first player in the University Football All-American. He was also IC4A champion in backstroke in 1923 and 1924 .

1924 DeGroot was appointed, although not an experienced rugby player in the US selection for the Olympic rugby tournament in Paris; he was used in the decisive game against France in the third storm series (the exact position was not noted in the game report), where he succeeded in an attempt .

Football coach

DeGroot became assistant to the head coach of the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1926 before becoming head coach of Menlo College in 1927-32 . In 1932 he went to San José State , where he was first briefly assistant to Pop Warner before he was the team's head coach in 1933. In 1939 the San José Spartans managed to win each of the 13 season games under DeGroot with a total points ratio of 324: 29. 1940-43 DeGroot was then a trainer at the University of Rochester .

DeGroot was also successful as a coach of the Redskins . While the franchise missed the championship game in the first season of 1944 due to defeats on the last two game days against the New York Giants , in 1945 eight wins in ten games were enough to make it into the final; the final was very narrowly lost at 14:15 against the Rams , who were still playing in Cleveland . Overall, the Redskins won 14 of the 21 games under DeGroots coaching. For the 1946 season he moved to the newly established competitive league All-America Football Conference for the Los Angeles Dons . The Dons have been moderately successful in the two years DeGroot coached them. In each case a win more than defeats resulted in third place in the western division of the league, DeGroots achieved an overall record in LA of 12 wins with two draws and ten defeats.

In 1948 he returned to college football as head coach of West Virginia University ; In two years his team achieved a record of 13-9-1, his last head coaching was the University of New Mexico , where he achieved an overall record of 13-17-0 in 1950-52.

Others

DeGroot had a doctorate in education and a renowned ornithologist specializing in oology .

In addition to his coaching activity, DeGroot football functionary, among other things, he was 1951-53 chairman of the ethics committee of the American football coaches association, during his tenure, a written code of ethics was drawn up for the first time.

Honors

DeGroot was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame for his services as a college football coach, and in 2002 the University of New Mexico Hall of Honor .

Works

  • A history of physical education in California (1848-1939) , Diss., Stanford University Press 1940

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ralph Hickok: DeGroot, Dudley S. In: hickoksports.com. February 18, 2009, archived from the original on June 5, 2011 ; accessed on August 18, 2009 .
  2. ↑ RugbyFootballHistory.com: rugby at the Olympics. 2007, accessed August 17, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Michael Richman: The Redskins Encyclopedia , Temple University Press 2007, ISBN 978-1592135424 , pp. 29ff, 389.
  4. ↑ Pro-Football-Reference.com : Entry on DeGroot. Sports Reference, LLC, accessed August 18, 2009 .
  5. ^ AFCA Code of Ethics Summary. AFCA, archived from the original on September 8, 2015 ; accessed on September 17, 2015 .
  6. ^ Hall of Honor. Lobos Athletics, Jan. 6, 2007, archived from the original on July 20, 2009 ; Retrieved August 18, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME DeGroot, Dudley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DeGroot, Dudley Sargent; DeGroot, dud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rugby union player, American football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH May 5th 1970
Place of death El Cajon , California