Earle T. Pickering Explained

Earle T. Pickering
Birth Date:6 January 1888
Birth Place:Geneva, Minnesota, U.S.
Death Place:Hennepin County, Minnesota, U.S.
Player Sport1:Football
Player Years2:1909–1911
Player Team2:Minnesota
Player Positions:Fullback, end[1]
Coach Sport1:Football
Coach Years2:1912
Coach Team2:Vermont
Coach Years3:1913–1914
Coach Team3:Arkansas
Coach Years4:1915
Coach Team4:St. Thomas (MN)
Coach Sport5:Baseball
Coach Years6:1914–1915
Coach Team6:Arkansas
Overall Record:15–15–1 (football)
33–12 (baseball)

Earle Thomas Pickering (January 6, 1888 – June 14, 1961) was an American football and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Vermont in 1912, at the University of Arkansas from 1913 to 1914, and at the College of St. Thomas—now known as the University of St. Thomas—in Minnesota in 1915, compiling career college football coaching record of 15–15–1. Pickering was also the head baseball coach at Arkansas from 1914 to 1915, tallying a mark of 33–12.

Pickering played college football at the University of Minnesota. He was the captain of the 1911 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team.[2] At Minnesota he was a member of Theta Delta Chi.[3]

He was born in Geneva, Minnesota in 1888.[4] [5] He died June 14, 1961, in Hennepin County, Minnesota.[6] He is buried in Geneva, his hometown.

Head coaching record

Football

Notes and References

  1. Book: The Shield: Official Publication of the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity - Google Books . 1884 . Google Books. December 16, 2012.
  2. News: . Arkansas to Have Minnesota Coach—Earl Pickering of Minnesota Will Head Razorback Football Team for 1913 . Daily Arkansas Gazette . . June 5, 1913 . 11 . July 18, 2017 . .
  3. Book: The Kappa Alpha Journal . 1913 . Google Books. December 16, 2012.
  4. Book: Football at Minnesota: The Story of Thirty Years' Contests on the Gridiron . The General Alumni Association of the University of Minnesota . November 9, 1914 . 177 . December 16, 2012 . Google Books.
  5. Book: The history of Minnesota football - University of Minnesota. General Alumni Association, Martin Newell - Google Books . 1928 . Google Books. December 16, 2012.
  6. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V44M-CC9 Earle Thomas Pickering, "Minnesota, Death Index, 1908-2002"