Walter Jewell

American football player and coach (1896–1980)

Walter Jewell
Biographical details
Born	(1896-02-24)February 24, 1896 Iowa, U.S.
Died	January 27, 1980(1980-01-27) (aged 83) Decorah, Iowa, U.S.
Alma mater	Iowa (JD, 1919)
Playing career
1917	Iowa

Position(s)	Tackle
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1919	Luther
1921	Allerton HS (IA)

Walter W. Jewell (February 24, 1896 – January 27, 1980) was an American football player and coach.

Jewell played college football as a tackle at the University of Iowa, lettering in 1917.^[1]^[2] He graduated from the University of Iowa with a J.D. degree in 1919.^[1]

In the fall of 1919, he was hired as the head football coach at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. The program had been discontinued, and Jewell was charged with building a football team out of students who had "practically no experience".^[3] On October 11, 1919, Jewell led the team to a 29 to 6 victory in Luther's first college football game in 20 years.^[4] Jewell was the head coach at Luther for three months from September to November 1919.^[1]

Jewell taught and coached at a high school in Allerton, Iowa from 1921 to 1922 and practiced law in Decorah starting in 1919.^[1] Jewell died at Winneshiek County Memorial Hospital in Decorah, on January 27, 1980.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Luther College through sixty years, 1861-1921. Augsburg Publishing House. 1922. p. 128. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
^ "Iowa Football Media Guide". Iowa Hawkeyes football. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
^ Luther College through sixty years, 1861-1921. Augsburg Publishing House. 1922. p. 333. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
^ "Luther Defeats Campion". The Des Moines Register. October 12, 1919. p. 1S – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Walter W. Jewell". The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. Waterloo, Iowa. January 28, 1980. p. 5. Retrieved February 23, 2019 – via Newspapers.com .