Dick Romney
American football head coach
1895 – 1969
Who was Dick Romney?
Ernest Lowell "Dick" Romney was an American football and basketball player and coach, track athlete, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach and athletic director at the Agricultural College of Utah, now Utah State University, from 1918 to 1949, compiling a career college football record of 128–91–16. Romney was also the head basketball coach at Utah Agricultural from 1919 to 1941, tallying a college basketball mark of 224–158. He served as the commissioner of the Mountain States Conference from 1949 to 1959. Romney was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954 and was elected to the Helms Athletic Foundation and Hall of Fame as a football coach in 1958.
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- Born
- Feb 12, 1895
Salt Lake City - Education
- University of Utah
- Died
- Feb 5, 1969
Salt Lake City
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on July 23, 2013
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