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Harry A. Dame
Biographical details
Born(1878-10-27)October 27, 1878
Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedSeptember 7, 1933(1933-09-07) (aged 54)
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Playing career
1898–1899Springfield (MA)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1901–1905Waltham HS (MA)
1905Milton Academy (MA)
1905–1909Everett HS (MA)
1909–1915Waltham HS (MA)
1915–1917Lynn English HS (MA)
1919–1921Western Reserve
Head coaching record
Overall9–18 (college football)
4–6 (college baseball)
1–6 (college track)

Harry Austin Dame (October 27, 1878 – September 7, 1933) was an American football coach.

Early life[edit]

Dame was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. He graduated from Lynn Classical High School in 1898. He then attended Springfield Training School, where played quarterback for the school's football team. He graduated from Springfield Training School in 1900 and later took courses at Tufts College and Boston University.[1][2]

Coaching career[edit]

High school[edit]

After college, Dame began a career in physical instruction.[1] He served as athletic director of Waltham High School until his resignation in June 1905.[3] He then worked as an instructor at the Milton Academy until September 1905, when he was hired to coach football and baseball and teach mathematics at Everett High School.[1] He left Everett in 1909 to return Waltham High School.[4] In addition to serving as athletic director, Dame coached football and basketball and served as Waltham's supervisor of parks. In 1915, Waltham's football team finished the season undefeated and played Everett High School at Fenway Park for the right to play Detroit's Central High School for the National scholastic football championship. Everett defeated Waltham 6–0 in front of 12,000 spectators, an attendance record for a Massachusetts high school football game.[5][6] Later that year, Dame accepted a position as physical instructor at Lynn English High School.[7] Prior to his departure, his football team played a testimonial game against an all-star team consisting of college and former high school players. Waltham won 24–6.[8] In the summer of 1917, Dame took a group of Lynn English students to work on Sorosis Military Farm in Marblehead as part of an experiment by conceived by an executive from the A. E. Little Co., which owned the farm. The experiment combined farm work with military conditions in an effort to increase the boy's interest in farm work, provide them with military instruction, and assist in war production.[9][10][11] He resigned from Lynn English on September 25, 1917.[9]

College[edit]

From 1919 to 1922, Dame was the athletic director and a coach at Western Reserve University. He coached baseball from 1919 to 1920, basketball from 1919 to 1922, football from 1919 to 1921, and track from 1919 to 1920. He compiled a 4–6 coaching record in baseball, 9–18 in football, and 1–6 in track.[12][13]

In 1921, the R Club, a Western Reserve alumni group, demanded that Dame be replaced as head football coach by his assistant and predecessor Frank A. Yocum. Dame was supported by the school's faculty and his players. The negativity towards Dame was so strong that police officers were stationed at the entrance of fields to turn away alumni. The University Athletic Committee, which included Dame, chose not to take any action.[14]

Late life and death[edit]

Dame later worked at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, until his resignation in 1928.[15] He died on September 7, 1933, in Cleveland, Ohio.[16]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "To Teach in Everett". The Boston Daily Globe. May 11, 1905.
  2. ^ Catalogue of Tufts College 1900-1901. Malden: H. H. Whittemore & Co. 1900. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  3. ^ "Changes Among the Physical Directors". American Gymnasia and Athletic Record. July 1905. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  4. ^ "Accepts Waltham Berth". The Boston Daily Globe. August 4, 1909.
  5. ^ Woodlock, Albert J. (November 27, 1915). "Supporters of Everett High Confident, but not More than the Waltham Fans". The Boston Daily Globe.
  6. ^ Woodlock, Albert J. (November 28, 1915). "Crowd of 12,000 at Fenway Park". The Boston Daily Globe.
  7. ^ "Fradd Succeeds Dame". The Boston Daily Globe. December 25, 1915.
  8. ^ "Waltham Beats All-Stars, 24-6". The Boston Daily Globe. December 5, 1915.
  9. ^ a b Public Schools, Lynn (Mass. ). (1918). Annual Report of the Lynn Public Schools of the City of Lynn. p. 7. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  10. ^ "Where Boys Learn to Farm and to be Soldiers". The New York Times. March 31, 1918.
  11. ^ "Farmers and Soldiers, too, are These Lynn Schoolboys". The Boston Daily Globe. August 12, 1917.
  12. ^ "University Archives: Coach Harry A. Dame". Kelvin Smith Library. The CWRU. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  13. ^ "Coach Harry A. Dame". Case Western Reserve University Archives. Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  14. ^ "The Coach's Life is All Roses - Not". The Decatur Daily Review. November 17, 1921.
  15. ^ "Condolence is Expressed". The Cincinnati Enquirer. December 22, 1928.
  16. ^ "Deaths Last Night" (PDF). The Troy Times. The Associated Press. September 8, 1933.

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