Leon Harvey
American football, basketball, and ice hockey coach / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leon Russell Harvey (August 4, 1893 – January 17, 1983) was an American football, basketball and ice hockey coach and educator. He served as the head football coach (1923–1928), head basketball coach (1922–1929), and head ice hockey coach (1924–1926) at Michigan Technological University–then known as the Michigan College of Mines.
Biographical details | |
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Born | (1893-08-04)August 4, 1893 Warren, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | January 17, 1983(1983-01-17) (aged 89) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
Playing career | |
Football | |
c. 1915 | Springfield |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1923–1928 | Michigan Mines/Tech |
Basketball | |
1922–1929 | Michigan Mines/Tech |
c. 1940 | Montpelier HS (VT) |
Ice hockey | |
1924–1926 | Michigan Mines |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 9–7–3 (college football) 14–40 (college basketball) 4–6–1 (college ice hockey) |
Harvey was born in Warren, Massachusetts. He graduated from Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts and later earned a master's degree from Boston University. Harvey taught and coached at Montpelier High School in Montpelier, Vermont. He led his basketball team at Montpelier a New England tournament championship in 1940. Harvey later spent 17 years as a teacher and coach at Thayer Academy in Braintree, Massachusetts. A United States Army veteran of World War I, Harvey lived in Marshfield, Massachusetts for 40 years before moving to St. Louis in 1978. He died on January 17, 1983, at his home there.[1]