:John Ethan Hill

{{Short description|American football coach and mathematician}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1865|10|15}}

| birth_place = Mystic, Connecticut, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1941|7|2|1865|10|15}}

| death_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

| alma_mater = Yale University (1885){{cite web|url=http://www26.us.archive.org/stream/catalogueofoffic01colu/catalogueofoffic01colu_djvu.txt|title=Full text of "Catalogue of officers and graduates of Columbia university from the foundation of King's college in 1754"|work=archive.org|date=1912 }}
Clark University (1895, Ph.D)

| coach_years1 = 1900

| coach_team1 = West Virginia

| overall_record = 4–3

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John Ethan Hill (October 15, 1865 – July 2, 1941) was an American mathematician and college football coach. He was the eighth head football coach for West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia, serving for one season, in 1900, and compiled a record of 4–3.

Hillwas born in Mystic, Connecticut, in 1865. He graduated from Yale University in 1885 and received a Doctor of Philosophy from Clark University.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EjABAAAAMAAJ&q=Clark+University+%22Hill+John+Ethan%22+born|title=Herringshaw's national library of American biography|work=google.ca|last1=Herringshaw|first1=Thomas William|year=1914}} He died on July 2, 1941, at Brooklyn.{{cite web|url=http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1941-42.pdf|date=29 June 2005|title=1941-1942 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University|access-date=September 15, 2015|archive-date=April 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405135718/http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1941-42.pdf|url-status=dead}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cy6juceOQ54C&dq=john+ethan+hill+1865+1941&pg=PA72|title=A Century of Mathematics in America|via=google.ca|isbn=9780821801369|last1=Duren|first1=Peter L.|last2=Askey|first2=Richard|last3=Merzbach|first3=Uta C.|last4=Edwards|first4=Harold M.|year=1988|publisher=American Mathematical Society }} He was buried at Elm Grove Cemetery in Mystic.

Head coaching record

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| name = West Virginia Mountaineers

| conf = Independent

| startyear = 1900

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