Ed Farrell Explained

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]

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Notes and References

  1. News: . Cambridge Grid Coach To Resign . . . February 21, 1961 . 25 . August 28, 2022 . .
  2. News: . Farrell Accepts Head Coach Job At Bridgeport . . . March 28, 1970 . D2 . August 28, 2022 . .