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Prentiss Douglass 
Prentiss Douglass cropped from 1908 Michigan football team photograph Sport(s) Football Biographical details Born June 1887 Place of birth Martinsville, Illinois Died November 9, 1949 (aged 62) Place of death Lexington, Kentucky Playing career 1907–1908 Michigan Position(s) Halfback Coaching career (HC unless noted) 1909–1910
1911
1912–1919Michigan (assistant)
Kentucky
Michigan (assistant)Prentiss Porter Douglass (June 1887 – November 9, 1949) was an American football player and coach.
Assistant coach in 1916
He was a native of Martinsville, Illinois who graduated from the Culver Military Academy and the University of Michigan. He played football for Fielding H. Yost's 1907 and 1908 Michigan Wolverines football teams at the halfback position. After graduating from Michigan in 1909, he served as an assistant football coach at Michigan during the 1909 and 1910 football seasons. In 1911, he was the head football coach at the University of Kentucky. His 1911 Kentucky team finished the season with 7 wins and 3 losses. Kentucky was unscored upon in its first four games, surrendering six points to the University of Cincinnati in the fifth game. The season's highlights included the final two games, victories against Centre College and the University of Tennessee. After one year at Kentucky, Douglass returned to the University of Michigan where he served as an assistant football coach from 1912 to 1919. He retired from football after the 1919 season to go into business. Douglass died of a heart ailment in Lexington, Kentucky in 1949 at age 62.[1][2]
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Kentucky Wildcats head football coaches A. M. Miller (1892) • John Thompson (1893) • W. P. Finney (1894) • Charles B. Mason (1895) • Dudley Short (1896) • Lyman Eaton (1897) • W. R. Bass (1898–1899) • W. H. Kiler (1900–1901) • E. W. McLeod (1902) • C. A. Wright (1903) • Fred Schacht (1904–1905) • J. White Guyn (1906–1908) • Edwin Sweetland (1909–1910) • Prentiss Douglass (1911) • Edwin Sweetland (1912) • Alpha Brummage (1913–1914) • J. J. Tigert (1915–1916) • Stanley A. Boles (1917) • Andrew Gill (1918–1919) • William Juneau (1920–1922) • Jack Winn (1923) • Fred Murphy (1924–1926) • Harry Gamage (1927–1933) • Chet Wynne (1934–1937) • Albert Kirwan (1938–1944) • Bernie Shively (1945) • Bear Bryant (1946–1953) • Blanton Collier (1954–1961) • Charlie Bradshaw (1962–1968) • John Ray (1969–1972) • Fran Curci (1973–1981) • Jerry Claiborne (1982–1989) • Bill Curry (1990–1996) • Hal Mumme (1997–2000) • Guy Morriss (2001–2002) • Rich Brooks (2003–2009) • Joker Phillips (2010– )
1918 Michigan Wolverines football—national champions Theo Adams | Ted Boville | Abe Cohn | Frank Czysz | Robert J. Dunne | William Fortune | Paul Freeman | Angus Goetz | Arthur Karpus | Mike Knode | Chester Morrison | John Perrin | Frank Steketee | Eddie Usher | Ernie Vick
Head coach: Fielding H. Yost | Assistant coach: Prentiss Douglass | Trainer: George May | Athletic director: Philip BartelmeCategories:- 1949 deaths
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