Edward Herr

{{About|the college football player and coach|the professional baseball player|Ed Herr}}

{{Infobox college coach

| name = Edward Herr

| image = Edward Herr (American football).png

| alt =

| caption = Herr in The New Hampshire College Monthly of December 1906

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1883|1|4}}{{cite web |url=https://www.fold3.com/image/555250928 |title=World War I Draft Registration Card |date=September 1918 |website=fold3.com |url-access=subscription |accessdate=April 27, 2020}}

| birth_place = Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.{{cite web |url=https://www.fold3.com/image/285723437 |title=World War II Draft Registration Card |date=April 1942 |website=fold3.com |url-access=subscription |accessdate=April 27, 2020}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1950|3|18|1883|1|4}}

| death_place = Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.

| alma_mater = University of Vermont

| player_years1 = 1902–1905

| player_team1 = Dartmouth

| plauer_positions =

| coach_years1 = 1906–1907

| coach_team1 = New Hampshire

| coach_years2 = 1908

| coach_team2 = Vermont

| overall_record = 6–13–6

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Edward Albert Herr{{efn|New Hampshire's media guide lists his middle initial as 'R'; however, contemporary sources from the early 1900s refer to him as E. A. Herr.}} (January 4, 1883 – March 18, 1950) was an American player and head coach of college football, and a physician.

Biography

Herr was a 1906 graduate of Dartmouth College, where he played football for four years as a halfback and end.{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/newhampshirec19051907newh |magazine=The New Hampshire College Monthly |title=The Football Outlook |volume=14 |number=1 |date=October 1906 |page=[https://archive.org/details/newhampshirec19051907newh/page/3 3] |accessdate=April 27, 2020 |via=Wayback Machine}} He then served as head coach of the New Hampshire football team in 1906 and 1907,{{efn|The school was then named New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts; it would become the University of New Hampshire in 1923 and would adopt the Wildcats nickname in 1926.}} and for the Vermont football team in 1908.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49734234/football-coach/ |title=Football Coach |newspaper=The Burlington Free Press |location=Burlington, Vermont |page=8 |date=May 6, 1908 |accessdate=April 27, 2020 |via=newspapers.com}} In his three seasons as a head coach, Herr compiled an overall 6–13–6 record, for a {{winpct|6|13|6}} winning percentage.

In August 1906, Herr saved two women from drowning following a canoe accident in Squam Lake in New Hampshire.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49733466/saves-two-roxbury-girls/ |title=Saves Two Roxbury Girls |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=11 |date=August 10, 1906 |accessdate=April 27, 2020 |via=newspapers.com}} Following his time as a head coach, Herr earned his medical degree at the University of Vermont and went on to practice medicine in Hartford, Connecticut; Boston, Massachusetts; and Waterbury, Connecticut. He died in March 1950 at Saint Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, following a brief illness.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49735434/dr-edward-a-herr/ |title=Dr. Edward A. Herr |agency=AP |newspaper=Hartford Courant |location=Hartford, Connecticut |page=30 |date=March 19, 1950 |accessdate=April 27, 2020 |via=newspapers.com}}

Head coaching record

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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = New Hampshire

| conf = Independent

| startyear = 1906

| endyear = 1907{{efn|New Hampshire's media guide also lists Herr as their head coach for the 1905 season. However, this is not corroborated by contemporary sources, he was a student at Dartmouth through the 1905–06 academic year, and upon his hiring at Vermont it was noted that he had been coach at New Hampshire for the prior two years.}}

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1906

| name = New Hampshire

| overall = 2–5–1

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1907

| name = New Hampshire

| overall = 1–5–2

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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = New Hampshire

| overall = 3–10–3

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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Vermont Green and Gold

| conf = Independent

| startyear = 1908

| endyear = 1908

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1908

| name = Vermont

| overall = 3–3–3

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| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Vermont

| overall = 3–3–3

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{{CFB Yearly Record End

| overall = 6–13–6

| bowls = no

| poll = no

| polltype =

| legend = no

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{{cite web |url=https://issuu.com/unhathletics/docs/unh_football_media_guide_2017_web |page=66 |title=2017 New Hampshire Media Guide |publisher=University of New Hampshire |year=2017 |accessdate=April 27, 2020}}{{Cite web |url=http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/getItem.xql?pid=ariel1910&view=&term1=football&page=227 |title=Ariel vol. 23 (1910) |access-date=November 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124133230/http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/getItem.xql?pid=ariel1910&view=&term1=football&page=227 |archive-date=November 24, 2015 |url-status=dead }}

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References

Category:1883 births

Category:1950 deaths

Category:People from Waterbury, Connecticut

Category:Dartmouth Big Green football players

Category:New Hampshire Wildcats football coaches

Category:Vermont Catamounts football coaches

Category:University of Vermont alumni

Category:Coaches of American football from Connecticut

Category:Physicians from Connecticut

Category:Players of American football from Waterbury, Connecticut