Crip Toomey
Irving Francis "Crip" Toomey (November 10, 1895 – June 28, 1961) was an American football and baseball player, coach of football and basketball, and college athletics administrator. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he played college football as a halfback on Andy Smith's California Golden Bears football teams from 1919 to 1921. Toomey served as the head football coach at the Northern Branch of the College of Agriculture—now the University of California, Davis (UC Davis)—from 1928 to 1936, compiling a record of 24–42–8. He was also the head basketball coach there from 1928 to 1936, tallying a mark of 55–89. Toomey served as the athletic director at UC Davis from 1928 until his death in 1961.
Toomey was born on November 10, 1895 in Fresno, California and attended Fresno High School. He served as a lieutenant in the United States Army during World War I. He died on June 28, 1961 at the Woodland Clinic Memorial Hospital in Woodland, California.[1]
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- Howard Phillips (1910–1912)
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- R. A. Harmon (1915–1916)
- E. B. Blabee (1916–1917)
- J. D. Marquardt (1917–1918)
- Red Harper (1918–1919)
- Doc Seawright (1919–1921)
- Wilmer D. Elfrink (1921–1922)
- Chester Brewer (1922–1923)
- William L. Driver (1923–1927)
- Woody Wilson (1927–1928)
- Crip Toomey (1928–1936)
- George Stromgren (1936–1943)
- No team (1943–1945)
- Woody Wilson (1945–1946)
- George Stromgren (1946–1951)
- Carl Boyer (1951–1952)
- George Stromgren (1952–1957)
- Herb Schmalenberger (1957–1958)
- Jim Sells (1958–1963)
- Joe Carlson (1963–1967)
- Bob Hamilton (1967–1989)
- Lonnie Williams (1989–1990)
- Bob Williams (1990–1998)
- Brian Fogel (1998–2003)
- Gary Stewart (2003–2011)
- Jim Les (2011– )
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