Henry Wadsworth "Eskie" Clark ( April 11, 1899 – March 23, 1976) was an American college football player and coach, athletics administrator, and shipping executive. He served as the head football coach at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut for one season, in 1925, compiling a record of 1–5.[1] Clark was the athletic director at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania from 1935 to 1944.[2]
Clark was born in Wrangell, Alaska. After attending Phillips Exeter Academy, he played football as a center and was a shot putter on the track and field team at Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1923. Clark was later vice president of the Alaska Steamship Company and worked in labor relations on the West Coast of the United States. He also wrote two books on the history of Alaska. Clark died on March 23, 1976, in Silver Spring, Maryland.[3]
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity Bantams (Independent) (1925) | |||||||||
| 1925 | Trinity | 1–5 | |||||||
| Trinity: | 1–5 | ||||||||
| Total: | 1–5 | ||||||||
References
- ^ Who's Who in American Sports. Washington, D.C.: National Biographical Society. 1928. Retrieved March 22, 2018 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ ""Eskie" Clark In Farewell Banquet By H.A.A. Friends". The Harvard Crimson. Cambridge, Massachusetts. December 9, 1935. Retrieved April 15, 2018.
- ^ "H. W. Clark, Harvard official". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. March 26, 1976. p. 41. Retrieved August 10, 2019 – via Newspapers.com
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