Fred Bennion

Fred Bennion

Biographical details
Born	(1884-09-24)September 24, 1884 Detroit, Michigan
Died	January 18, 1960(1960-01-18) (aged 75) Denver, Colorado
Playing career
Football
1902	Utah
1904–1906	Utah
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1910–1913	Utah
1914–1917	Montana A&M / State
Basketball
1908–1910	BYU
1911–1914	Utah
1914–1919	Montana A&M / State
Baseball
1909–1912	BYU
Head coaching record
Overall	27–15–8 (football) 96–31 (basketball) 11–10 (baseball)

Fred W. Bennion (September 29, 1884 – January 1960) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball and baseball. He served as the head football coach at the University of Utah from 1910 to 1913 and at the Agricultural College of the State of Montana—now Montana State University—from 1914 to 1917, compiling a career college football record of 27–15–8. Bennion was also the head basketball coach at Brigham Young University (BYU) from 1908 to 1910, at Utah from 1911 to 1914, and at Montana Agricultural from 1914 to 1919, amassing a career college basketball record of 96–31. In addition, He was the head baseball coach at BYU from 1909 to 1912, tallying a mark of 11–10.

Bennion was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Utah. He also studied agriculture at Montana State. Following his coaching career, he worked as an agricultural agent in Umatilla County, Oregon and Montana during the 1920s.^[1] He died in 1960 after a short illness.^[2]

Head coaching record[]

Football[]

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External links[]

• Media related to Fred Bennion at Wikimedia Commons