Pat Keefe | |
Birth Date: | 16 September 1878 |
Birth Place: | Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Death Place: | Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Player Sport1: | Baseball |
Player Years2: | 1901 |
Player Team2: | Canton (Northern NY League) |
Player Years3: | 1902 |
Player Team3: | Utica Pent-Ups |
Player Years4: | 1902 |
Player Team4: | Potsdam (Northern NY League) |
Player Years5: | 1902 |
Player Team5: | Plattsburgh (Northern NY League) |
Player Years6: | 1903 |
Player Team6: | Ilion Typewriters |
Player Years7: | 1903 |
Player Team7: | Burlington (Northern NY League) |
Player Years8: | 1905 |
Player Team8: | Bradford Drillers |
Player Years9: | 1914 |
Player Team9: | Bradford Drillers |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | ? |
Coach Team2: | Williamstown HS (MA) |
Coach Years3: | 1909 |
Coach Team3: | Ogdensburg HS (NY) |
Coach Years4: | 1910–1912 |
Coach Team4: | Middlebury |
Coach Years5: | –1927 |
Coach Team5: | Williams (assistant) |
Coach Sport6: | Baseball |
Coach Years7: | 1910 |
Coach Team7: | Maine |
Coach Years8: | 1929 |
Coach Team8: | Clarkson |
Admin Years1: | 1915–1917 |
Admin Team1: | Drury HS (MA) |
Overall Record: | 2–16–2 (college football) |
Patrick "Patsy" Keefe (September 16, 1878 – September 10, 1941) was an American baseball player, coach of football and baseball, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont from 1910 to 1912, compiling a record of 2–16–2. Keefe was also the head baseball coach at the University of Maine, tallying a mark of 8–4.[1] [2]
Keefe played high school football in Williamstown, Massachusetts as a halfback. He later coached football for two seasons there and then in Ogdensburg, New York, in 1909.[3] He was the athletic director at Drury High School in North Adams, Massachusetts from 1915 to 1917. Keefe was later an assistant football coach at Williams College under head coaches Percy Wendell and Douglas Lawson. In 1929, he was hired as the baseball coach at Clarkson College—now known as Clarkson University—in Potsdam, New York.[4] He died on September 10, 1941, at Veteran's Hospital in Chelsea, Massachusetts.[5]