Sport(s) Football, basketball 1911–1912 Northwestern 1919 Allegheny | 1913–1917 Allegheny 1910–1912 Northwestern Name Charles Hammett | |
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Born January 29, 1865
Frederick County, Maryland ( 1865-01-29 ) Died October 2, 1945(1945-10-02) (aged 80)
Meadville, Pennsylvania | ||
Charles Edward Hammett, Sr. (January 29, 1865 – October 2, 1945) was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Northwestern University from 1910 to 1912 and at Allegheny College from 1913 to 1917 and in 1919, compiling a career college football record of 35–19–6. Hammett was also the head basketball coach at Northwestern (1911–1912) and Allegheny (1913–1918, 1919–1920, 1921–1922), tallying a career college basketball mark of 60–41. In addition, he served as Northwestern's athletic director from 1910 to 1913.
Hammett was born in Frederick County, Maryland in 1865 to David Calvin and Ellen (née Krieger) Hammett. He died of a stroke in 1945 at the age of 80.
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