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.
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]