Edwin Harlan Explained

Edwin Harlan
Birth Date:12 May 1886
Birth Place:Maryland, U.S.
Death Place:Bel Air, Maryland, U.S.
Player Sport1:Football
Player Years2:1905–1907
Player Team2:Princeton
Player Sport3:Baseball
Player Years4:1906–1908
Player Team4:Princeton
Player Positions:Halfback, quarterback (football)
Coach Sport1:Football
Coach Years2:1910
Coach Team2:Princeton (field coach)
Coach Years3:1911
Coach Team3:Johns Hopkins
Coach Years4:1913–1914
Coach Team4:Pittsburgh (assistant)
Coach Years5:1915–1916
Coach Team5:Texas A&M
Coach Sport6:Baseball
Coach Years7:1912
Coach Team7:Johns Hopkins
Overall Record:17–10 (football)
Awards:Consensus All-American (1907)

Edwin Hanson Webster "Jigger" Harlan (May 12, 1886 – August 7, 1939) was an American college football and college baseball player and coach, and attorney. He played football at Princeton University and was a consensus first-team selection to the 1907 College Football All-America Team. Harlan coached the Johns Hopkins University football and baseball teams in 1912. He served as the head football coach at Texas A&M University from 1915 to 1916.

Biography

Harlan was born in Maryland in 1886. His father, William H. Harlan, was a judge in Bel Air, Maryland. Harlan graduated from Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1904.

Harlan enrolled in Princeton University in 1904. He played for the Princeton Tigers football and baseball teams. He was captain of the baseball team, and he was selected as a consensus first-team halfback on the 1907 College Football All-America Team.[1]

Harlan graduated from Princeton in 1908 and enrolled at the University of Maryland School of Law, receiving his degree in 1911. He served as the football and baseball coach at Johns Hopkins University in 1912. He also practiced law in Harford County, Maryland, serving at various times as the city attorney for Bel Air, Maryland, and as counsel to the Harford County Boards of Education and Elections Supervisors.

Harlan coached football at Princeton and the University of Pittsburgh. He was appointed as the head football coach at Texas A&M University in 1915.[2]

Harlan died in 1939 at Bel Air, Maryland, after a lengthy illness.[3]

Head coaching record

Football

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. August 16, 2014. 4. November 26, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181126094941/http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2014/awards.pdf. dead.
  2. News: . A. & M. College 1915-16 Athletics; Three Strong Coaches to Direct. Short Sketches of Each. Football Schedule. . . . July 15, 1915 . December 14, 2014 .
  3. News: Edwin H. W. Harlan, Lawyer, Ex-Athlete: Princeton Quarterback in 1907 Had Coached at Johns Hopkins. The New York Times. August 8, 1939.