Penn Quakers Football Coaches: Bert Bell, Mike Murphy, Sol Metzger, John Heisman, Tiny Maxwell, Alden Knipe, Bob Folwell, Al Bagnoli

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Bert Bell, Mike Murphy, Sol Metzger, John Heisman, Tiny Maxwell, Alden Knipe, Bob Folwell, Al Bagnoli, Tom Davies, Andy Smith, Carl Sheldon Williams, George Munger, George Washington Woodruff, George H. Brooke, John Lyons, Steve Sebo, John Audino, Blondy Wallace, Chuck Priore, Howard Odell, Mike Whalen, Tom Gilmore, Charles Keinath, Ed Foley, Horace Hendrickson, Darrell Hazell, Dick Anderson, John Stiegman, Jeff Reinebold, Andy Coen, Tony DeMeo, Larry Glueck, Avery Blake, Woody Wagenhorst, Rae Crowther, Lud Wray, Harvey Harman, Bob Odell, Bill Schmitz, Jack Keogh, Jerry Berndt, Stan Drayton, Paul Riblett. Excerpt: Michael Charles Mike Murphy (February 26, 1860 - June 4, 1913) was an athletic trainer and coach at Yale University (1887-1889, 1892-1896, 1901-1905), the Detroit Athletic Club (1889-1892), the University of Michigan (1891), the University of Pennsylvania (1896-1901, 1905-1913), and the New York Athletic Club (1890-1900). He also coached the American track athletes at the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1908, and 1912. He also spent a year in approximately 1884 as the trainer of heavyweight boxing champion John L. Sullivan. The Washington Post in 1913 called Murphy the father of American track athletics. He was considered the premier athletic trainer of his era and was said to have revolutionized the methods of training athletes and reduced it to a science. He is credited with establishing many innovative techniques for track and field, including the crouching start for sprinters. Accounts concerning Murphy's youth differ. He was born in February 1860 either in Southboro, Westboro or Natick, Massachusetts. He was the son of Irish immigrants, a man of humble birth and scant education. Murphy's father had a reputation as an athlete, and Murphy's desire as a youth was to become a great athlete. He has been v...