Charlie Havens | |
Birth Date: | 12 July 1903 |
Birth Place: | Rome, New York, U.S. |
Death Place: | Gaithersburg, Maryland, U.S. |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | 1927–1929 |
Player Team2: | Western Maryland |
Player Years3: | 1930 |
Player Team3: | Frankford Yellow Jackets |
Player Positions: | Center, tackle |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1931 |
Coach Team2: | Western Maryland (assistant) |
Coach Years3: | 1933 |
Coach Team3: | St. Aloysius Academy |
Coach Years4: | 1934 |
Coach Team4: | Western Maryland (assistant) |
Coach Years5: | 1935–1941 |
Coach Team5: | Western Maryland |
Coach Years6: | 1946–1956 |
Coach Team6: | Western Maryland |
Coach Sport7: | Basketball |
Coach Years8: | 1934–1935 |
Coach Team8: | Western Maryland |
Coach Sport9: | Baseball |
Coach Years10: | 1935 |
Coach Team10: | Western Maryland |
Coach Years11: | 1938 |
Coach Team11: | Western Maryland |
Coach Years12: | 1941 |
Coach Team12: | Western Maryland |
Coach Years13: | 1947 |
Coach Team13: | Western Maryland |
Coach Years14: | 1957 |
Coach Team14: | Western Maryland |
Overall Record: | 77–65–6 (college football) 5–13 (college basketball) |
Championships: | 2 Mason–Dixon (1949, 1951) |
Charles William Havens (July 12, 1903 – May 12, 1996) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, baseball. He played professionally as a center and tackle for one season, in 1930, with the Frankford Yellow Jackets of the National Football League (NFL).[1] Havens served two stints as the head football coach at Western Maryland College—now known as a McDaniel College—from 1935 to 1941 and again from 1946 to 1956, compiling a record of 77–65–6. He was the head baseball coach at Western Maryland for five one-year stints, in 1935, 1938, 1941, 1947, and 1957.[2] [3] Havens also served as the head basketball coach at Western Maryland during the 1934–35 season.[4]
Havens was born and raised in Rome, New York. He died of kidney failure, on May 12, 1996, at Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg, Maryland.[5]