Henry Kenneth Cassidy (September 14, 1893 – April 2, 1963) was an American college football and college basketball coach. He served as the 11th head football at Fairmount College—now known as Wichita State University—in Wichita, Kansas and he that position for the 1919 season, comping a record of 2–6–2.[1] Cassidy was also the head basketball coach at Fairmount for one season, in 1919–20, tallying a mark of 8–8.
Cassidy was an alumnus of Fairmount College and Ottawa University.[2] He served in France as a United States Army infantry officer during World War I. Cassidy died on April 2, 1963, at Palomar Memorial Hospital California in Escondido, California.[3]
Head coaching record
Football
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairmount Wheatshockers (Independent) (1919) | |||||||||
| 1919 | Fairmount | 2–6–2 | 2–6–2 | 13th | |||||
| Fairmount: | 2–6–2 | 2–6–2 | |||||||
| Total: | 2–6–2 | ||||||||
References
- ^ Wichita St. Coaching Records Archived September 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Insurance field". July 1930.
- ^ "Retired Veteran Of WWI In France Succumbs At 69". Daily Times-Advocate. Escondido, California. April 3, 1963. p. 2. Retrieved March 25, 2020 – via Newspapers.com
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