W. S. Borland Explained

W. S. Borland
Birth Date:1 February 1878
Birth Place:Oil City, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Death Place:Oil City, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Coach Sport1:Football
Coach Years2:1901–1903
Coach Team2:LSU
Coach Sport3:Baseball
Coach Years4:1902–1903
Coach Team4:LSU
Overall Record:15–7 (football)
10–11–1 (baseball)

Walter Siverly Borland (sometimes spelled Boreland) (February 1, 1878[1] – November 22, 1959) was an American college football and college baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Louisiana State University from 1901 to 1903, compiling a record of 15–7.[2] Borland was also the head coach of the LSU baseball team from 1902 to 1903, tallying a mark of 10–11–1. Borland was a graduate of Allegheny College in 1900. While at Allegheny College, he was captain of the baseball team and sophomore class president in 1898. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at Allegheny College. He died in 1959 and was buried in Oil City, Pennsylvania.

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Baseball

Notes and References

  1. Book: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time. White, J.T.. 1967. 48. University Microfilms. June 20, 2015.
  2. Web site: LSU Year-by-Year Records. lsusports.net. 107. July 29, 2018.