Clarence Childs
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Biographical details | |
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Born | Wooster, Ohio, U.S. | July 24, 1883
Died | September 16, 1960 Washington, D.C., U.S. | (aged 77)
Playing career | |
1910 | Yale |
Position(s) | Guard |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1913 | Wooster |
1914–1915 | Indiana |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1914–1915 | Indiana |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 8–10–3 |
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Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||
Weight | 102 kg (225 lb) | |||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||
Event | Hammer throw | |||||||||||
Club | NYAC, New York | |||||||||||
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Personal best | 52.53 m (1912)[1] | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Clarence Chester Childs (July 24, 1883 – September 16, 1960) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the hammer throw.[1][2] He served as the head football coach at Indiana University from 1914 to 1915, compiling a record of 6–7–1.
Biography
He was born on July 24, 1883, in Wooster, Ohio.[1] He lived in Fremont, Ohio, for much of his youth where he played football for the Fremont Football Club.[3] He became Captain of the Yale track team before he competed for the United States in the 1912 Summer Olympics held in Stockholm, Sweden in the hammer throw where he won the bronze medal.[4] Childs was the football coach at Indiana University and served in France during World War I. Childs was appointed by President Warren Harding to a position within the U.S. Treasury Department, but was fired when he attacked a United States Secret Service agent, who was following him on suspicion that Childs had illegally removed sensitive documents.[5] He died in Washington, D.C., on September 16, 1960.[1]
Head coaching record
Football
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Wooster Fightings Scots (Ohio Athletic Conference) (1913) | |||||||||
1913 | Wooster | 2–3–2 | 1–3–1 | T–8th | |||||
Wooster: | 2–3–2 | 1–3–1 | |||||||
Indiana Hoosiers (Big Ten Conference) (1914–1915) | |||||||||
1914 | Indiana | 3–4 | 1–4 | 8th | |||||
1915 | Indiana | 3–3–1 | 1–3 | 8th | |||||
Indiana: | 6–7–1 | 2–7 | |||||||
Total: | 8–10–3 |
References
- ^ a b c d "Clarence Childs". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2008-11-20.
- ^ "Clarence Childs". Olympedia. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- ^ The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Archived 2014-04-16 at the Wayback Machine. Rbhayes.org (2004-05-05). Retrieved on 2015-08-23.
- ^ "Gardner, Pole Vaulter and Golfer, Succeeds C.C. Childs, Resigned". The New York Times. January 23, 1912. Retrieved 2008-11-20.
Robert A. Gardner, '12, of Chicago was to-day elected Captain of the Yale track team, to succeed Capt. Clarence C. Childs, who announced his resignation last Saturday. Gardner is a pole vaulter, and has been on the track team for two years. He is also leader of the Yale Glee Club and a former, Western golf champion.
- ^ Shlaes, Amity (2014) Coolidge. Harper Perennial. p. 239. ISBN 0061967599.
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- 1883 births
- 1960 deaths
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- American male hammer throwers
- American military personnel of World War I
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Indiana Hoosiers athletic directors
- Indiana Hoosiers football coaches
- Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in track and field
- Wooster Fighting Scots football coaches
- Yale Bulldogs football players
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- People from Fremont, Ohio
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