Ted Beckett Explained
| Ted Beckett |
| Currentposition: | Guard |
| Birth Date: | February 15, 1907 |
| Birth Place: | Marshfield, Oregon, U.S. |
| Death Date: | June 1978 (aged 71) |
| Death Place: | Reno, Nevada, U.S. |
| School: | California Golden Bears |
| Pastschools: | Cal (1930) |
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Ted Beckett (February 15, 1907 – June 1978) was an American football player.[1] [2] He played college football at University of California, Berkeley and was a consensus selection at the guard position on the 1930 College Football All-America Team.[3] [4]
After graduation Beckett served on the Cal coaching staff for the 1931 season.[5] He became head football coach as Santa Barbara State College for the 1932 season, after which he retired from football.
Beckett went into the insurance business in 1933 and remained in that field until 1942. During World War II he became a foreman at a shipyard.
Following the war, Beckett moved to Orinda, California with his wife Kathryn and raised a family, moving occupationally into the field homebuilding and real estate sales.
He died in 1978 at Reno, Nevada, at the age of 71.[6]
Notes and References
- News: Beckett Boomed as Leader of Coast's Running Guards. The San Francisco Examiner. September 26, 1930. 25. Newspapers.com.
- News: Ted Beckett, U.C. Guard, Outstanding Hero. The San Francisco Examiner. November 23, 1930. 35. Newspapers.com.
- Web site: 2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. August 16, 2014. 5. November 26, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181126094941/http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2014/awards.pdf. dead.
- News: Carideo, Brill Get Backfield Places. The San Francisco Examiner. December 14, 1930. 31. Newspapers.com.
- "Yesterday's Bears Today," The California Gridiron: Oregon State vs. California, October 27, 1951, (Berkeley: Associated Students, University of California), vol. 30, no. 4 (Oct. 27, 1951), p. 7.
- Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Ted Beckett, last residence 89509 Reno, Washoe, Nevada, USA, born 15 Feb 1907, died Jun 1978, SSN issued California (Before 1951).
