Fred Luehring | |
Birth Date: | 1881 |
Birth Place: | Hanover, Kansas, U.S. |
Death Date: | (aged 99) |
Death Place: | Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | Chicago (Ph.M. 1907) |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | 1901–1904 |
Player Team2: | North Central (IL) |
Player Years3: | 1905 |
Player Team3: | Chicago |
Player Sport4: | Basketball |
Player Years5: | 1905–1906 |
Player Team5: | Chicago |
Player Positions: | End (football) |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1906–1909 |
Coach Team2: | Ripon |
Coach Sport3: | Basketball |
Coach Years4: | 1906–1910 |
Coach Team4: | Ripon |
Coach Years5: | 1913–1920 |
Coach Team5: | Princeton |
Coach Sport6: | Baseball |
Coach Years7: | 1907–1912 |
Coach Team7: | Ripon |
Coach Sport8: | Swimming |
Coach Years9: | 1921–1922 |
Coach Team9: | Nebraska |
Admin Years1: | 1906–1910 |
Admin Team1: | Ripon |
Admin Years2: | c. 1918 |
Admin Team2: | Princeton (acting AD) |
Admin Years3: | 1920–1922 |
Admin Team3: | Nebraska |
Admin Years4: | 1922–1930 |
Admin Team4: | Minnesota |
Admin Years5: | 1932 |
Admin Team5: | US Olympic Swimming Committee |
Overall Record: | 21–3–1 (football) 125–61 (basketball) 11–6–1 (baseball) |
Frederick William Luehring (1882 – February 1, 1981) was an American football, basketball, baseball, and swimming coach college athletics administrator.[1] He served as the head football coach at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin from 1906 to 1909, compiling a record of 20–3–1.[2] Luehring was the head basketball coach at Ripon from 1906 to 1910 and at Princeton University from 1913 to 1920, amassing a career college basketball coaching mark of 125–61.[3]
Luehring was credited with starting the swim team at the University of Nebraska in 1921 and later served as a committee member of the US Olympic Swimming team.[4]
As a college athlete, Luehring excelled at North Central University and then at the University of Chicago under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg.[5]
In addition to his athletic pursuits Luehring also was an art collector. A selection of prints by Honore Daumier of people swimming were exhibited at Lehigh University Art Gallery in 1958 with the assistance of Head Curator Francis Quirk.[6]
Luehring died at the age of 99, on February 1, 1981, at Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania.[7]