- Otis Caldwell
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Otis Caldwell Sport(s) Football Coaching career (HC unless noted) 1899-1901 Eastern Illinois Head coaching record Overall 4-1-2 Statistics College Football Data Warehouse Otis William Caldwell (1869, Lebanon, Indiana – 1947) was an American botanist and college football coach.
He was educated at Franklin (Ind.) College, and at the University of Chicago. He was professor of botany at the Eastern Illinois State Normal School from 1899 to 1907. In 1907 he was named associate professor of botany at the University of Chicago. While at Eastern Illinois, Caldwell served as head coach of the school's football team for three seasons, from 1899 to1901.[1] He served on the board of trustees for Science Service, now known as Society for Science & the Public, from 1944-1947.
His publications include:
- A Laboratory Manual of Botany (1901; revised edition, 1902)
- Plant Morphology (1903; revised edition, 1904)
- The High School Course in Botany (1909)
- Practical Botany (1911), with J. Y. Bergen
References
Eastern Illinois Panthers head football coaches Otis Caldwell (1899–1901) • Thornton Smallwood (1902) • Thomas Briggs (1903) • Joesph Brown (1904–1909) • Harold Railsback (1910) • Charles Lantz (1911–1917) • No team (1918) • Charles Lantz (1919–1934) • Winfield Angus (1935) • Gilbert Carson (1936–1937) • Harold Ave (1938) • Gilbert Carson (1939–1931) • Clayton Miller (1942) • No team (1943) • Charles Lantz (1944) • James Goff (1945) • Maynard O'Brien (1946–1950) • Rex Darling (1951) • Maynard O'Brien (1952–1955) • Keith Smith (1956) • Ralph Kohl (1957–1964) • Clyde Biggers (1965–1971) • Jack Dean (1972–1974) • John Konstantinos (1975–1977) • Darrell Mudra (1978–1982) • Al Molde (1983–1986) • Bob Spoo (1987–2005) • Mark Hutson # (2006) • Bob Spoo (2007–2011)
Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
Categories:- 1869 births
- 1947 deaths
- American academics
- American botanists
- American educators
- American science writers
- Eastern Illinois Panthers football coaches
- University of Chicago faculty
- People from Boone County, Indiana
- Franklin College (Indiana) alumni
- American botanist stubs
- College football coaches first appointed in the 1890s stubs
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