Name John Corbett Height 1.85 m | Role Professional Boxer Spouse Olive Lake (m. 1886–1895) | |
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Sport(s) Football, basketball, baseball Born November 15, 1869Boston, Massachusetts ( 1869-11-15 ) Died February 18, 1933, Bayside, New York City, New York, United States Books The Roar of the Crowd: The True Tale of the Rise and Fall of a Champion Movies Gentleman Jim, Corbett and Courtney, The Corbett‑Fitzsimmons Fight, The Midnight Man, The Prince of Avenue A Similar People Joe Corbett, Raoul Walsh, William Kennedy Dickson, Sarah Bernhardt, James W Horne | ||
John Corbett (November 15, 1869 – February 21, 1947) was an American football player and coach of multiple sports. He played football for Harvard University from 1890 to 1893 and was selected as one of the two halfbacks on the 1890 College Football All-America Team. He graduated from Harvard in 1894 and earned a master's degree from Ohio University in 1910. Corbett went on to coach football in Ohio, Oklahoma, and Wyoming. In 1914, he moved to Wyoming where he coached all of the athletic teams, including football, basketball, baseball, and track and field, for the University of Wyoming from 1914 to 1924. He remained the university's director of physical education until his retirement in September 1939. He became known as Wyoming's "Grand Old Man of Athletics." In October 1931, the University of Wyoming's athletic field was named Corbett Field in his honor. Corbett died on February 21, 1947, of an apparent heart attack at his home in Laramie, Wyoming; he was 77 years old.