Frederick C. "Fritz" Mackey (April 30, 1904 – July 2, 1987) was an American college football and college baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Butler University from 1932 to 1934, compiling a record of 10–11–2. Mackey was also the head baseball coach at Ohio Wesleyan University from 1930 to 1932,[1] and at his alma mater, Ohio State University, from 1939 to 1944, tallying a career college baseball coaching mark of 99–75.[2]
Mackey played football and baseball at Ohio State, before graduating in 1926. He was also an assistant football coach at Ohio State from 1935 to 1944 and a member of the staff for the national championship-winning 1942 Ohio State Buckeyes football team. After leaving coaching, Mackey worked for an actuary firm. He retired around 1970 to Sun City, Arizona, where he died in July 1987.[3]
Head coaching record
Football
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butler Bulldogs (Missouri Valley Conference) (1932–1933) | |||||||||
| 1932 | Butler | 2–4–1 | 0–0–1 | 3rd | |||||
| 1933 | Butler | 2–6 | 0–2 | 5th | |||||
| Butler Bulldogs (Indiana Intercollegiate Conference) (1934) | |||||||||
| 1934 | Butler | 6–1–1 | 6–0–1 | 1st | |||||
| Butler: | 10–11–2 | 6–2–2 | |||||||
| Total: | 10–11–2 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth | |||||||||
References
- ^ "Frederick Mackey" (PDF). Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops baseball. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
- ^ "Ohio State baseball". Salem News. April 24, 1944. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
- ^ "Ex-Butler coach dies". The Indianapolis Star. Indianapolis, Indiana. July 5, 1987. p. 7D. Retrieved March 17, 2019 – via Newspapers.com
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