Ernest C. White | |
Birth Date: | 12 March 1872 |
Birth Place: | Cohocton, New York, U.S. |
Death Date: | 1926 |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | 1895–1896 |
Player Team2: | Cornell |
Player Years3: | 1897–1898 |
Player Team3: | Buffalo |
Player Positions: | Guard |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1899 |
Coach Team2: | Missouri (assistant) |
Coach Years3: | 1900–1901 |
Coach Team3: | Kirksville Osteopaths |
Overall Record: | 17–5–1 |
Ernest Cleveland White (March 12, 1872 – 1926) was an American track athlete, college football player and coach, and osteopathic physician. He served as the head football coach at American School of Osteopathy—now known as A.T. Still University—in Kirksville, Missouri from 1900 to 1901.
A native of Elmira, New York, White attended Cornell University from 1895 to 1897, and was a member of the football and track teams. He then studied at medicine at the University of Buffalo, where he played football from 1897 to 1898 and was captain of the 1898 Buffalo football team.[1] White coached football at the University of Missouri in 1899.[2] He graduated from the medical department at Missouri in 1900.[3]
White later practiced medicine in Watertown, New York and Paris. His patients included Theodore Roosevelt. White died in 1926.[4] [5]