Ben Beck | |
Birth Date: | 14 April 1889 |
Birth Place: | Bartley, Nebraska, U.S. |
Death Place: | Woodstock, Vermont, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | University of Nebraska |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1919 |
Coach Team2: | Nebraska Wesleyan |
Coach Years3: | 1921–1923 |
Coach Team3: | Hamline |
Coach Years4: | 1928–1941 |
Coach Team4: | Middlebury |
Coach Sport5: | Basketball |
Coach Years6: | 1919–1920 |
Coach Team6: | Nebraska Wesleyan |
Coach Years7: | early 1920s |
Coach Team7: | Hamline |
Coach Years8: | 1928–1942 |
Coach Team8: | Middlebury |
Overall Record: | 67–67–6 (football) 86–110 (basketball, excluding Hamline) |
Championships: | Football 1 MIAC (1921) |
Benjamin Harlow Beck (April 14, 1889 – January 26, 1968) was an American college football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1919, at Hamline University from 1921 to 1923, and at Middlebury College from 1928 to 1941. Beck was hired as coach of all freshmen athletics at Brown University in 1924.[1]
Beck was born April 14, 1889, in Bartley, Nebraska, to Charles and Sarah (Dillon) Beck. He attended Nebraska Wesleyan and graduated from the University of Nebraska with a Bachelor of Science degree. Beck died on January 26, 1968, at Guthrie Nursing Home in Woodstock, Vermont.[2]