Warren Steller
American athlete and coach (1897–1974) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Warren E. Steller (October 8, 1897 – August 6, 1974) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Bowling Green State Normal School—now known as Bowling Green State University—from 1924 to 1934, compiling a record of 40–21–19. Steller was also the head basketball coach at Wesleyan University in 1922–23 and at Bowling Green in 1924–25, tallying a career college basketball mark of 18–12. In addition, he was the head baseball coach at Wesleyan in 1923 and at Bowling Green in 1925 and again from 1928 to 1959, amassing a career college baseball record of 228–164. Steller attended Oberlin College, where he played football, basketball, and baseball, and is considered one of the finest athletes ever to play for the Yeoman. In 1921, the Oberlin football team beat Ohio State, 7–6, the last time an intrastate opponent beat Ohio State. Steller scored the winning touchdown. In 1965, Bowling Green renamed its baseball stadium Warren E. Steller Field in dedication to the former coach.[1]
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Biographical details | |
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Born | (1897-10-08)October 8, 1897 |
Died | August 6, 1974(1974-08-06) (aged 76) Bowling Green, Ohio, U.S. |
Playing career | |
Football | |
1917 | Oberlin |
1919 | Oberlin |
Basketball | |
1917–1918 | Oberlin |
Baseball | |
c. 1918 | Oberlin |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1924–1934 | Bowling Green |
Basketball | |
1922–1923 | Wesleyan |
1924–1925 | Bowling Green |
Baseball | |
1923 | Wesleyan |
1925 | Bowling Green |
1928–1959 | Bowling Green |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1924–1941 | Bowling Green |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 40–21–19 (football) 18–12 (basketball) 228–164 (baseball) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Football 3 Northwest Ohio League (1925, 1928–1929) | |