Chester J. Roberts

Who is Chester J. Roberts?

Chester Joseph Roberts was an American football player and coach of football and basketball in the early 1900s. He was a 1912 graduate of Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin where he played football. After graduation he served as a member of the faculty at several colleges in the Midwest. During this time Roberts served as head football coach at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and Platteville Normal College, now the University of Wisconsin–Platteville, compiling a career college football record of 11–10. He was also the head basketball coach at Bethany and Miami, tallying a career college basketball mark of 9–18.