Harold Burry | |
Birth Date: | 31 May 1912 |
Birth Place: | New Castle, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Death Place: | New Castle, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1935–1943 |
Coach Team2: | Ellwood City HS (PA) |
Coach Years3: | 1952–1971 |
Coach Team3: | Westminster (PA) |
Admin Years3: | 1961–1977 |
Admin Team3: | Westminster (PA) |
Overall Record: | 127–31–5 (college football) |
Tournament Record: | 2–1–1 (NAIA D-II playoffs) |
Championships: | 1 NAIA Division II (1970) 7 WPC (1958–1964) |
Cfbhof Year: | 1996 |
Cfbhof Id: | 1918 |
Harold E. Burry (May 31, 1912 – September 5, 1992) was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania from 1952 to 1971, compiling a record of 127–31–5. Burry also coached a number of other sports at Westminster and was the school's athletic director from 1961 to 1977. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1996.
Burry graduated from Westminster College in 1935. He began his coaching career at Ellwood City High School in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, where he was head football coach from 1935 to 1943. Burry returned to Westminster in 1946 to coach soccer, swimming, track, and cross country.[1]