Ben Douglas | |
Birth Date: | 12 March 1909 |
Birth Place: | Denver, Colorado, U.S. |
Death Place: | Brandon, Florida, U.S. |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | 1928–1930 |
Player Team2: | Grinnell |
Player Years3: | 1933 |
Player Team3: | Brooklyn Dodgers |
Player Positions: | Halfback |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1931 |
Coach Team2: | Greenfield HS (IA) |
Coach Years3: | 1934–1939 |
Coach Team3: | Maplewood HS (MO) |
Coach Years4: | 1940–1941 |
Coach Team4: | Grinnell |
Coach Years5: | 1946 |
Coach Team5: | Grinnell |
Coach Years6: | 1947 |
Coach Team6: | Colorado College |
Coach Years7: | 1949 |
Coach Team7: | Missouri Mines (assistant) |
Coach Years8: | 1950–1951 |
Coach Team8: | Iowa (assistant) |
Coach Sport9: | Basketball |
Coach Years10: | 1931–1932 |
Coach Team10: | Cornell (IA) |
Coach Years11: | 1940–1942 |
Coach Team11: | Grinnell |
Coach Years12: | 1949–1950 |
Coach Team12: | Missouri Mines |
Coach Years13: | 1950–? |
Coach Team13: | Iowa (assistant) |
Admin Years1: | 1947–1948 |
Admin Team1: | Colorado College |
Overall Record: | 15–12 (college football) |
Frank Benjamin Douglas (March 12, 1909 – December 4, 1985) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He served as the head football coach at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa from 1940 to 1941 and again in 1946 and at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1947, compiling a career college football coaching record of18–17. Douglas played college football at Grinnell from 128 to 1930 and then professionally for one season, in 1933, with the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National Football League (NFL).[1] Douglas was also the head basketball coach at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa from 1931 to 1932, Grinnell from m 1940 to 1942, and the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy—now known as Missouri University of Science and Technology—from 1949 to 1950.[2]