- Mike Getto
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Mike Getto Date of birth September 18, 1905 Place of birth Irwin, Pennsylvania, United States Date of death August 27, 1960 (aged 54) Place of death Lawrence, Kansas, United States Position(s) Center, Head Coach College University of Pittsburgh Career highlights Statistics Teams 1942 Brooklyn Dodgers Michael J. Getto (September 18, 1905 – August 27, 1960) was a professional football coach in the National Football League for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1942. That season he coached Brooklyn to a 3–8 record. Prior to his coaching career, Getto played college football while attending the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned All-American honors in 1928. After graduating from Pitt, Getto remained with the school as a football coach for the freshman team. He then worked as an assistant football coach from 1929 to 1939 and again in 1947 to 1950 at the University of Kansas. While at Kansas, Getto inspired his hometown of Jeannette, Pennsylvania to adopt the Jayhawk mascot for their high school athletic teams.
References
- Grosshandler, Stan (1990). "The Brooklyn Dodgers". Coffin Corner (Professional Football Researchers Association) 12 (3): 1–7. http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/12-03-399.pdf.
- "Pitt's Mike Getto Makes Most Of First Head Coaching Post". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette October (8): 16–18. 1942. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19421008&id=EgcNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CmoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3032,5856434.
- Harvath, Les (2006). "The Name Game". Pittsburgh Tribune Review (Trib Publishing) December (22). http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/rss/s_484938.html.
- List of Pitt's First Team All-Americans
Kansas Jayhawks head baseball coaches Unknown (1880) • No team (1881) • Unknown (1882) • No team (1883) • Unknown (1884–1894) • No team (1895) • Unknown (1886) • No team (1897) • J. R. Snyder (1898) • Frank Jewett (1899) • Clyde Nichols (1900) • No team (1901) • Ulysses Plank (1902–1904) • Arthur Relihan (1905) • Dick Kaufman (1906–1908) • A. M. Ebright (1909) • Arthur Sherwin (1910–1912) • Leon McCarty (1913–1917) • Jay Bond (1918–1919) • Leon McCarty (1920) • Adrian Lindsey (1921) • George Clark (1922–1925) • John Bunn (1926–1930) • T. C. Bishop (1931) • Wayne Culp (1932) • No team (1933–1936) • Ole Nesmith (1937) • Frances Kappelman (1937) • Ralph Conger (1938–1939) • Mike Getto (1940) • Phog Allen (1941–1942) • No team (1943) • Elmer Schaake (1944) • No team (1945) • Red Dugan (1946) • Vic Bradford (1947) • Russ Sehon (1948) • William Hogan (1949–1950) • Hubert Ulrich (1951–1953) • Floyd Temple (1954–1981) • Marty Pattin (1982–1987) • Dave Bingham (1988–1995) • Bobby Randall (1996–2002) • Ritch Price (2003– )
Brooklyn Dodgers / Tigers head coaches Jack Depler (1930–1931) • Benny Friedman (1932) • John McEwan (1933–1934) • Paul J. Schissler (1935–1936) • George Clark (1937–1939) • Jock Sutherland (1940–1941) • Mike Getto (1942) • Pete Cawthon (1943) • Frank Bridges, Pete Cawthon & Ed Kuhale (1944)Categories:- 1905 births
- 1960 deaths
- Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL) coaches
- Kansas Jayhawks baseball coaches
- Kansas Jayhawks football coaches
- Pittsburgh Panthers football coaches
- Pittsburgh Panthers football players
- Players of American football from Pennsylvania
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