W. Durant Berry
American football coach
 Berry pictured in The Cincinnatian 1895, Cincinnati yearbook | |
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1870-09-03)September 3, 1870 Warren, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | July 9, 1953(1953-07-09) (aged 82) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1891–1893 | Centre |
| 1894–1895 | Cincinnati |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 19–7 |
Walter Durant Berry (September 3, 1870 – July 9, 1953)[1] was an American college football coach. He was the first head football coach at the University of Cincinnati, serving from 1894 to 1895 and compiling a record of 6–6.[2] Berry later worked as a doctor in New England. In 1903, he married Helen Warren Upham.
Berry had previously been a head football coach at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky from 1981 to 1893, compiling a record of 13 wins and 1 loss.[3] He died in 1953.[4]
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centre (Independent) (1891–1893) | |||||||||
| 1891 | Centre | 4–0 | |||||||
| 1892 | Centre | 6–0 | |||||||
| 1893 | Centre | 4–1 | |||||||
| Centre: | 13–1 | ||||||||
| Cincinnati (Independent) (1894–1895) | |||||||||
| 1894 | Cincinnati | 3–3 | |||||||
| 1895 | Cincinnati | 3–3 | |||||||
| Cincinnati: | 6–6 | ||||||||
| Total: | 19–7 | ||||||||
References
- ^ W. Durant Berry Biographical Information. Family Search: Mormon Database. Retrieved on March 5, 2016.
- ^ W. Durant Berry Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on March 5, 2016
- ^ Grace, Kevin (2003). Cincinnati Hoops. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738532011. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
- ^ "United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP8D-S82P : 5 December 2018), Walter D Berry, 12 Oct 1917; citing Military Service, NARA microfilm publication 76193916 (St. Louis: National Archives and Records Administration, 1985), various roll numbers.
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Centre Colonels head football coaches
- Samuel L. McKee (1879–1880)
- Unknown (1881–1890)
- W. Durant Berry (1891–1893)
- Eugene Messler (1894)
- Richard T. Lowndes (1895)
- Harry Anderson (1896–1897)
- Dick Van Winkle (1898)
- Edgar Tanner (1899)
- Ralph C. Hamill (1900)
- Forrest M. Hall (1901)
- Ed Tutwiler (1902)
- Harold A. Childs (1903–1904)
- William E. Johnston (1905–1908)
- M. B. Banks (1909–1911)
- Patrick O'Brien (1912–1913)
- Merle C. Knapp (1914)
- Orville B. Littick (1915)
- Robert L. Myers (1917)
- Charley Moran (1918–1923)
- Robert L. Myers (1924–1925)
- Harold Ofstie (1926–1927)
- Boise Potthoff (1928)
- Ed Kubale (1929–1937)
- J. Quinn Decker (1938–1941)
- Laird Holt (1942)
- No team (1943–1945)
- Carl Anderson (1946–1950)
- William L. Crabtree (1951)
- T. Briscoe Inman (1952–1956)
- Joe Brummett (1957–1960)
- Spencer Holt (1961–1962)
- T. Briscoe Inman (1963–1965)
- Steele Harmon (1966–1971)
- Herb McGuire (1972–1979)
- Joe McDaniel (1980–1997)
- Andy Frye (1998– )
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