Harry Mehre

Harry J. Mehre (September 18, 1901 in Huntington, Indiana - September 27, 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia) was an American athlete and football coach.

Mehre attended the University of Notre Dame and played center on both the football and basketball teams (serving as co-captain for the 1919-1920 basketball team and captain of the 1920-1921 team). He graduated in 1922 and played in that year and 1923 with the Minneapolis Marines of the National Football League, also serving as head coach in 1923. Mehre was also a football line coach and head basketball coach at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.

In 1924, Mehre came to the University of Georgia (UGA) as an assistant coach under George Woodruff. Upon Woodruff's retirement, Mehre became head coach and compiled a 50-34-6 record over ten years (1928 to 1937). He also served as the head coach at the University of Mississippi from 1938 to 1945. He compiled a 39-26-1 record there.

Mehre was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1971. He died in Atlanta in 1978. In 1986, Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall was dedicated on the UGA campus in honor of Mehre and fellow Bulldogs coach Wally Butts.

References

* [http://www.georgiadogs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=46724&SPID=3571&DB_OEM_ID=8800&ATCLID=523288 Georgiadogs.com bio of George Woodruff]
* [http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgi-bin/ebind2html.pl/reed_c17?seq=128 "History of the University of Georgia", Thomas Walter Reed, Imprint: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia, ca.1949, pp.3543-3561]
* [http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-913&hl=y New Georgia Encyclopedia entry for George Woodruff]

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NAME= Mehre, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=American football player, coach and sports writer
DATE OF BIRTH=September 18, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH=Huntington, Indiana
DATE OF DEATH=September 27, 1978
PLACE OF DEATH=Atlanta, Georgia