Milton Aronowitz | |
Birth Date: | 7 December 1891 |
Birth Place: | Albany, New York |
Death Date: | 9 August 1981 (aged 89) |
Death Place: | Albany, New York |
Overall Record: | 1–2–2 |
Coach Years1: | 1918 |
Coach Team1: | Delaware |
Major Milton Aronowitz (7 December 1891 – 9 August 1981) was an American physician who was the ninth head coach of the University of Delaware's college football program. He led them to a 1–2–2 overall record in 1918—his only season as a coach.
Aronowitz was born in Albany, New York into a Jewish family, the son of Polish-Ukrainian immigrants Max Aronowitz and Dora Ettleson.[1] He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1913 and Albany Medical College in 1917.[2] He was a doctor in the University of Delaware's Student Army Training Corps—a U.S. military program to train soldiers in World War One—and coached the SATC's football squad.[3] After the war ended, he returned to Albany to work as a physician.[4] He remained in the medical corps for the National Guard.[5] He died in Albany in 1981.[6]