Ed Farrell | |
Player Years1: | 1954–1955 |
Player Team1: | Rutgers |
Player Positions: | End |
Coach Years1: | 1956 |
Coach Team1: | New Paltz HS (NY) |
Coach Years2: | 1958–1960 |
Coach Team2: | Cambridge HS (MD) |
Coach Years3: | 1961–1964 |
Coach Team3: | Guilderland HS (NY) |
Coach Years4: | 1965–1969 |
Coach Team4: | Bridgeport (assistant) |
Coach Years5: | 1970–1973 |
Coach Team5: | Bridgeport |
Coach Years6: | 1974–1984 |
Coach Team6: | Davidson |
Admin Years1: | 1985–1990 |
Admin Team1: | UNC Asheville |
Admin Years2: | 1990–1996 |
Admin Team2: | Chattanooga |
Overall Record: | 70–79–1 (college) |
Bowl Record: | 2–0 |
Tournament Record: | 0–1 (NCAA Division III playoffs) |
Championships: | 1 EFC (1971) |
Edward Farrell (born) is a former American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1970 to 1973 and Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina from 1974 to 1984. Farrell was also the athletic director at the University of North Carolina at Asheville from 1985 to 1990 and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga from 1990 to 1996.
A native of Brewster, New York, Farrell attended Rutgers University, where he played football as an end. He began his coaching career in 1956 as head football coach at New Paltz High School in New Paltz, New York. After a year in the United States Army, he returned to coaching in 1958 at Cambridge High School in Cambridge, Maryland. He served as head football coach at Cambridge from 1958 to 1960 and then at Guilderland High School in Guilderland, New York from 1961 to 1964. Farrell joined the football coaching staff at Bridgeport as an assistant in 1965.[1] [2]