M. S. Bennett
Biographical details | |
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Born | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | April 10, 1881
Died | December 26, 1964 Bristol Township, Pennsylvania | (aged 83)
Playing career | |
Football | |
1900–1903 | Penn |
Basketball | |
1900–1904 | Penn |
Position(s) | End (football) |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1914–1921 | Haverford |
1923–1928 | Sewanee |
Basketball | |
1919–1921 | Haverford |
1924–1926 | Sewanee |
Baseball | |
1917–1921 | Haverford |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1923–1930 | Sewanee |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 39–54–10 (football) 2–29 (baseball) |
Michael Smith Bennett (April 10, 1881 – December 26, 1964) was an American football, basketball, and baseball, player, coach, college athletics administrator, dentist, and politician. He played college football for the Penn Quakers, and was the director of athletics and head football coach at Sewanee:The University of the South.[1][2] Bennett served on the Philadelphia City Council from 1916 to 1917 and was elected in 1917 as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He did not seek reelection in 1918.[3]
Bennett was born on April 10, 1881. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree in 1905.[4] He died on December 26, 1964.[5]
Head coaching record[]
Football[]
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Haverford (Independent) (1914–1921) | |||||||||
1914 | Haverford | 3–3–1 | |||||||
1915 | Haverford | 5–3 | |||||||
1916 | Haverford | 5–0–3 | |||||||
1917 | Haverford | 1–5–2 | |||||||
1918 | No team—World War I | ||||||||
1919 | Haverford | 2–4–1 | |||||||
1920 | Haverford | 1–5–1 | |||||||
1921 | Haverford | 1–5–1 | |||||||
Haverford: | 18–25–9 | ||||||||
Sewanee Tigers (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1923) | |||||||||
1923 | Sewanee | 5–4–1 | 3–2 | 9th | |||||
Sewanee Tigers (Southern Conference / Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1924) | |||||||||
1924 | Sewanee | 6–4 | 3–2 / 2–1 | T–6th / T–6th | |||||
Sewanee Tigers (Southern Conference) (1925–1928) | |||||||||
1923 | Sewanee | 4–4–1 | 1–4 | T–16th | |||||
1926 | Sewanee | 2–6 | 0–5 | 22nd | |||||
1927 | Sewanee | 2–6 | 1–4 | 20th | |||||
1928 | Sewanee | 2–7 | 0–5 | 21st | |||||
Sewanee: | 21–29–1 | 9–23 | |||||||
Total: | 39–54–10 |
References[]
- ^ "Harry Harman May Coach Sewanee Football Eleven". Reading Times. January 23, 1930. p. 20. Retrieved February 18, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Gridiron Taking Place Bull Ring". Madera Tribune. February 20, 1929.
- ^ "Michael Smith Bennett". Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Retrieved June 5, 2020.
- ^ Maxwell, W. J., ed. (1922). General Alumni Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania, 1922. University of Pennsylvania. General Alumni Society. p. 713.
- ^ "Dr. M. S. Bennett, 83; Retired Dentist, Coach". Philadelphia Daily News. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. December 29, 1964. p. 48. Retrieved June 5, 2020 – via Newspapers.com
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