B. C. Edwards

B .C. Edwards
Biographical details
Edwards pictured in The Index 1898, Illinois State yearbook
Sport(s)	Football, Basketball
Born	(1865-10-21)October 21, 1865^[1] Bloomingburg, Ohio
Died	November 2, 1950(1950-11-02) (aged 85) Troy, Montana
Alma mater	Boston School of Oratory (Emerson) (1892–96)^[2]^[3] University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1903–04)^[4]
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1897	Illinois State
1898–1902	Illinois State
Head coaching record
Overall	1-5 (football) 14-2 (basketball)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse

Benjamin Chase Edwards (October 21, 1865 – November 2, 1950) was the third head football coach for the Illinois State Redbirds in Normal, Illinois and he held that position for the 1897 season. His overall coaching record at ISU was 1 wins, 5 losses, and 0 ties. This ranks him 19th at ISU in terms of total wins and 19th at ISU in terms of winning percentage.^[5]

He taught reading, gymnastics and physical culture at the university from 1896 to 1903.^[6] He later lived in Cassia County, Idaho and Montana. He married Anna Blake Cunningham of Normal, Illinois (born 1896) on October 30, 1907 at Burley, Idaho.

Edwards died at his son's home in Troy, Montana in 1950. He was interred at Conrad Memorial Cemetery. He was survived by two sons, John Gifford and Donald M. and a daughter, Helen Edwards.^[7] His wife, Anna died in 1955 at Burley, Idaho, aged 86.^[8]

References

↑ University of Illinois Archives. Record Series 25/3/17-14, Student Ledger Card for Ben Chase Edwards
↑ Denis Larionov & Alexander Zhulin. "Read the eBook Semi-centennial history of the Illinois State Normal University, 1857-1907 by Illinois State Normal University online for free (page 5 of 43)". ebooksread.com. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
↑ Marshall, H.E. (1956). Grandest of Enterprises: Illinois State Normal University, 1857-1957. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
↑ Denis Larionov & Alexander Zhulin. "Read the eBook University of Illinois directory, listing the 35,000 persons who have ever been connected with the Urbana-Champaign departments, including officers of instruction and administration and 1397 deceased by Illinois. University online for free (page 44 of 191)". ebooksread.com. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
↑ Illinois State Coaching Records
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↑ "Ben C. Edwards Dies at Troy", The Daily Inter Lake, Friday, November 03, 1950, Kalispell, Montana, United States Of America
↑ "Anna Edwards", ''The Daily Inter Lake, Tuesday, September 06, 1955, Kalispell, Montana, United States Of America

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Illinois State Redbirds head football coaches

No coach (1887)
No team (1888–1889)
No coach (1890–1891)
No team (1892)
No coach (1893–1894)
George B. Dygart (1895)
Louis H. Galbreath (1896)
B. C. Edwards (1897)
No team (1898–1900)
No coach (1901)
No team (1902)
John P. Stewart (1903–1906)
John A. H. Keith (1907)
George Binnewies (1908–1909)
Harrison Russell (1912–1917)
No team (1918)
Harrison Russell (1919–1922)
Clifford E. Horton (1923–1924)
Don Karnes (1925–1926)
Joseph Cogdal (1927–1930)
Howard Hancock (1931–1944)
Edwin Struck (1945–1964)
Larry Bitcon (1965–1971)
Gerry Hart (1972–1976)
Charlie Cowdrey (1977–1980)
Bob Otolski (1981–1987)
Jim Heacock (1988–1995)
Todd Berry (1996–1999)
Denver Johnson (2000–2008)
Brock Spack (2009– )

Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball head coaches

B. C. Edwards (1898–1902)
John P. Stewart (1902–1906)
William Bawden (1906–1908)
George Binnewies (1908–1910)
Harrison Russell (1910–1923)
Clifford E. Horton (1923–1925)
Don Karnes (1925–1927)
Joseph Cogdal (1927–1949)
James Goff (1949–1957)
James Collie (1957–1970)
Will Robinson (1970–1975)
Gene Smithson (1975–1978)
Bob Donewald (1978–1989)
Bob Bender (1989–1993)
Kevin Stallings (1993–1999)
Tom Richardson (1999–2003)
Porter Moser (2003–2007)
Tim Jankovich (2007–2012)
Dan Muller (2012–present)

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