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Harold Brewer "Cookie" Cunningham (February 4, 1905 - November 3, 1995) was an American professional football player, basketball player, and basketball coach.
A two-sport athlete at Ohio State University, he started playing both football and basketball on the professional level in 1926. He started his professional football career by playing end for the Cleveland Panthers of the first American Football League. After the folding of the AFL, he played the same position for the Cleveland Bulldogs (1927), Chicago Bears (1929), and the Staten Island Stapletons (1931) of the National Football League. In the same five year span, Cunningham also played center for the Cleveland Rosenblums (American Basketball League) and the Toledo Red Men (National Basketball League).
Coaching career
Subsequently he became a baseball coach, first on the collegiate level before becoming a player-coach in the National Basketball League (Columbus Athletic Supply, 1937-1938). He subsequently returned to the college ranks, coaching for Washington and Lee University (1939-1942) and the University of North Dakota (1946-1948).
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Owners C. X. ZimmermanHead Coaches Roy WattsStadia Seasons Notable players Washington and Lee Generals men's basketball head coaches C. L. Krebs (1906–1909) • F. J. Pratt (1909–1910) • J. W. H. Pollard (1910–1913) • W. C. Raftery (1913–1923) • K. E. Hines (1923–1924) • Eddie Cameron (1924–1925) • R. A. Smith (1925–1930) • Ray Ellerman (1930–1932) • Harry Young (1932–1939) • Cookie Cunningham (1939–1942) • George Proctor (1942–1943) • No team (1943–1945) • Harry Young (1945–1946) • Carl Wise (1946–1948) • Bob Spessard (1948–1949) • Conn Davis (1949–1950) • Scott Hamilton (1950–1952) • William McCann (1952–1957) • Louis Miller (1957–1958) • Robert McHenry (1958–1964) • Verne Canfield (1964–1995) • Kevin Moore (1995–1999) • Jeff Lafave (1999–2003) • Adam Hutchinson (2003– )
North Dakota Fighting Sioux men's basketball head coaches George Sweetland (1904–1908) • David Dunlap (1908–1912) • Charles Armstrong (1912–1913) • Fred Archer (1913–1914) • Thomas Gill (1914–1918) • Harry Caldwell (1918–1919) • Paul J. Davis (1919–1924) • Dutch Houser (1924–1925) • Clement W. Letich (1925–1943) • No team (1943–1944) • Jack West (1944–1945) • Red Jarrett (1945–1946) • Cookie Cunningham (1946–1949) • Red Jarrett (1949–1951) • Louis D. Bogan (1951–1962) • Bill Fitch (1962–1967) • Jimmy Rodgers (1967–1970) • Dave Gunther (1970–1988) • Rich Glas (1988–2006) • Brian Jones (2006– )
Categories:- 1905 births
- 1995 deaths
- American basketball coaches
- American basketball players
- Basketball players from Ohio
- Centers (basketball)
- Chicago Bears players
- Cleveland Bulldogs players
- Cleveland Panthers players
- Cleveland Rosenblums players
- National Basketball League (United States) players
- North Dakota Fighting Sioux men's basketball coaches
- Ohio State Buckeyes football players
- Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball players
- People from Mount Vernon, Ohio
- Players of American football from Ohio
- Player-coaches
- Staten Island Stapletons players
- Washington and Lee Generals men's basketball coaches
- American football biography stubs
- American basketball biography, pre-1910 birth stubs
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