Manuel Rivero
Cuban baseball and football player and coach / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Manuel Rivero (November 3, 1908 – August 23, 2001), nicknamed "The Golden Flash", was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach.
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Biographical details | |
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Born | (19-11-03)November 3, 19 Havana, Cuba |
Died | August 23, 2001(2001-08-23) (aged 92) Rising Sun, Maryland, U.S. |
Playing career | |
Football | |
1930–1932 | Columbia |
Baseball | |
1931–1933 | Columbia |
1930–1934 | Cuban Stars (East) Pollock's Cuban Stars |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1934–1947 | Lincoln (PA) |
1951 | Lincoln (PA) |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1934–? | Lincoln (PA) |
Head coaching record | |
Bowls | 1–0 |
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A native of Havana, Cuba, Rivero was a three-year football lettermen at Columbia University from 1930 to 1932.[1][2][3] Between 1930 and 1934, he played professional baseball in the Negro leagues for the Cuban Stars (East) and Pollock's Cuban Stars.[4][5][6] Rivero went on to hold a variety of coaching positions at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania from 1933 to 1977.[7] The school's home gymnasium, Manuel Rivero Hall, is named in his honor.[8] Rivero died in Rising Sun, Maryland in 2001 at age 92.[9]