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E. T. MacDonnell
American sports coach (1886–1956) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Edward Thomas MacDonnell (August 9, 1886 – March 30, 1956) was an American college football, college basketball, and college baseball coach.[1] He served as the head football coach at Jefferson College in Convent, Louisiana during the early 1910s, Louisiana State University (LSU) from 1914 to 1916, and Wake Forest University for one season, in 1917. MacDonnell was also the head basketball coach at Wake Forest for the 1917–18 season, tallying a mark of 4–12, and the school's head baseball coach in the spring of 1918, notching a record of 9–3.
A native of Hamilton, New York, MacDonald attended Colgate University, where he was captain of the 1909 Colgate football team. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.[2] After graduating from Colgate in 1910, MacDonnell began his coaching career at Jefferson College.[3]
MacDonnell later worked as a steel company executive. He was the superintendent of Republic Steel's plant in Warren, Ohio, and later ran the company's excess products division in Youngstown, Ohio until retiring in 1955. MacDonnell died of a heart attack, on March 30, 1956, while vacationing in McColl, South Carolina.[4]
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