Vernon K. Irvine | |
Birth Date: | 24 June 1871 |
Birth Place: | Bedford, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Death Place: | St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | Princeton University (1895) |
Coach Years1: | 1894 |
Coach Team1: | North Carolina |
Overall Record: | 6–3 |
Vernon Kremer Irvine (June 24, 1871 – September 4, 1942) was an American college football coach and educator. He served as the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for one season, in 1894, compiling a record of 6–3.
Irvine was born one June 24, 1871 in Bedford, Pennsylvania.[1] He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, where played football as an end, and Princeton University, where he was captain of the "scrub" football team.[2] [3] Irvine was the principal of Butler High School in Butler, Pennsylvania for 36 years, until his retirement in 1934 due to poor health. He moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, where he died September 4, 1942.[4]