Joe Pritchard
Sport(s) | Football |
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Biographical details | |
Born |
Sharon, Mississippi, U.S. | May 15, 1886
Died |
July 14, 1947 61) Sunflower County, Mississippi, U.S. | (aged
Playing career | |
1904–1906 | Vanderbilt |
Position(s) | Tackle |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1909 | LSU |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 4–1 |
Statistics | |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Awards | |
2× All-Southern (1905, 1906) 1912 All-time Vandy 1st team |
Joseph Gibson "Beersheba" Pritchard (May 15, 1886 – July 14, 1947) was an American football player and coach. Pritchard played for the Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University. He was selected All-Southern in 1905 and 1906.[1] He stood 6 foot 2 inches and weighed 185 pounds.[2] Pritchard served as the head coach at Louisiana State University for part of one season in 1909, compiling a record is 4–1. He graduated from Vanderbilt in 1906 with a dental degree (DDS). A member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity,[3] he was later a Presbyterian dental missionary at Luebo in the Congo until he was forced to return to the United States due to poor health sometime before 1915.[4]
In 1912, Pritchard married Annie Milicent Landrey of Jeanerette, Louisiana.[5]
Head coaching record
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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LSU Tigers (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1909) | |||||||||
1909 | LSU | 4–1* | 2–1* | ||||||
LSU: | 4–1 | 2–1 | *Last 3 games were coached by John W. Mayhew. | ||||||
Total: | 4–1 |
References
- ↑ e.g. "Surprises The Rule During Past Season". The Atlanta Constitution. December 2, 1906.
- ↑ "The Football Season of 1904". Vanderbilt University Quarterly 5: 62–69.
- ↑ http://www.mocavo.ca/The-Catalogue-of-the-Phi-Delta-Theta-Fraternity-3/676575/38
- ↑ Vanderbilt University (1915). "Faculty-Senior Dinner, Maxwell House, April 16, 1915". Vanderbilt University Quarterly 15: 108–112.
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