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Sport(s)
  
Football

1901
  
1903
  
Name
  
John Farley

Positions
  
1898
  
1902
  
Overall
  
23–5

Role
  
American football player

John Wells Farley
Born
  
June 15, 1878Brookline, Massachusetts (
1878-06-15
)

Died
  
March 12, 1959, Needham, Massachusetts, United States

John Wells "Mike" Farley (June 15, 1878 – March 12, 1959) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Maine in 1901 and 1903 and at Harvard University in 1902, compiling a career college football record of 23–5. In 1901, Farley achieved a 7–1 record and gave Maine its first-ever conference championship, winning the Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA). His record of 5–3 in 1903 also earned the Black Bears a third straight MIAA championship. The team won a conference title under Eddie N. Robinson in his only season as head coach in 1902. Farley was born in Brookline, Massachusetts and died in 1959 in Needham, Massachusetts.

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