Frank Berrien

{{Short description|American football coach and United States Navy officer}}

{{Infobox military person

|name = Frank Berrien

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1877|8|17}}

|birth_place = Galesburg, Illinois, U.S.

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1951|1|31|1877|8|17}}

|death_place = New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.

|placeofburial= U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery, Annapolis, Maryland

|placeofburial_label= Place of burial

|image = Frank D. Berrien (4).jpg

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|allegiance = {{Nowrap|{{Flagicon|United States|1912}} United States}}

|serviceyears = 1898, 1900–1935, 1942

|rank = Rear Admiral

|branch = {{flag|United States Navy}}

|commands = {{plainlist|

{{USS|Lexington|CV-2|6}}
European Destroyer Squadron, Atlantic Fleet
Naval Submarine Base New London
{{USS|Comfort|AH-3|6}}
{{USS|Wilkes|DD-67|6}}
{{USS|Nicholson|DD-52|6}}
{{USS|Trippe|DD-33|6}} }}

|unit =

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|awards = Navy Distinguished Service Medal

|laterwork = Football coach at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis.

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Frank Dunn Berrien (August 17, 1877{{Snd}} January 31, 1951) was an American football coach and United States Navy officer who served during six conflicts. He was the 13th head football coach for the United States Naval Academy located in Annapolis, Maryland and he held that position for three seasons, from 1908 until 1910. His coaching record at Navy was 21–5–3.[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/independents/navy/coaching_records.php Navy Midshipmen football coaching records] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214091548/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/independents/navy/coaching_records.php |date=December 14, 2013 }} As commanding officer of the {{USS|Nicholson|DD-52|6}}, he fought in the action of 17 November 1917 and subsequently received the Navy Distinguished Service Medal.{{cite web |url=https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/16392 |title=Frank Dunn Berrien |website=Military Times |publisher=Sightline Media Group |access-date=2023-08-21}}

Biography

Born in Galesburg, Illinois and raised in Iowa, Berrien graduated from Clinton High School in 1895.{{cite web |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/research-guides/modern-biographical-files-ndl/modern-bios-b/berrien-frank-dunn.html |title=Frank Dunn Berrien |date=January 24, 2019 |publisher=Naval History and Heritage Command |access-date=2023-08-21}} Appointed to the Naval Academy, he played right end on the football team and second base on the baseball team.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/luckybag1900unse/page/57/mode/1up |title=Lucky Bag |date=1900 |pages=57–58 |publisher=U.S. Naval Academy |location=Annapolis, Maryland |access-date=2023-08-21}} During the Spanish–American War, Berrien served aboard the protected cruiser {{USS|Cincinnati|C-7|6}}. After graduating in June 1900, he served in the Asiatic Squadron during both the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine–American War. On November 9, 1907, Berrien married Mary Elizabeth Whittelsey in New Haven, Connecticut.{{cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JQQHctc_-IcC&pg=PA282 |title=Married: Berrien—Whittelsey |date=November 16, 1907 |volume=XLV |issue=11 |page=282 |newspaper=Army and Navy Journal |access-date=2023-08-21}}

File:Frank D. Berrien (2).jpg

Back at the Naval Academy as head football coach, Berrien also served as an instructor of ordnance and gunnery.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/luckybag1910unse/page/22/mode/2up |title=Lucky Bag |date=1910 |pages=22–23 |publisher=U.S. Naval Academy |location=Annapolis, Maryland |access-date=2023-08-21}} From March 1911 to June 1914, he served as the first commanding officer of the destroyer {{USS|Trippe|DD-33|6}}.{{cite web |url=http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/033.htm |title=USS Trippe (DD-33) |publisher=NavSource Naval History |access-date=2023-08-21}} From April to May 1914, Trippe conducted patrol operations in support of the occupation of Veracruz. In 1917, Berrien graduated from the Naval War College. During World War I, he commanded the destroyers Nicholson and {{USS|Wilkes|DD-67|2}}. Just before the Armistice, Berrien served as commanding officer of the hospital ship {{USS|Comfort|AH-3|6}} during her voyage from New York City to Brest, France.

From 1921 to 1923, Berrien was given command of the submarine base at New London, Connecticut. He was promoted to captain in June 1922.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h2HYt9jsGCwC&pg=PA18 |title=Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps |date=January 1, 1934 |page=18 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=2023-08-21}} From 1923 to 1925, Berrien commanded the European destroyer squadron of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. He then attended the Army War College, graduating in 1926. From 1926 to 1928, Berrien served as a professor of naval science and tactics at Yale University.{{cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sBU4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA17 |title=Catalogue of the Undergraduate Schools: Professors |date=April 15, 1927 |volume=23 |issue=15 |page=17 |magazine=Bulletin of Yale University |location=New Haven, Connecticut |access-date=2023-08-21}} From June to August 1928, he was a student at the naval air station at Pensacola, Florida, earning his naval aviation observer rating.{{cite news |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/149901524 |title=Capt. Frank D. Berrien to Command Lexington: Succeeds Rear Admiral Albert W. Marshall on Navy's New Aircraft Carrier. |date=August 3, 1928 |page=5 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=2023-08-21|id={{ProQuest|149901524}} }} From August 1928 to June 1930, Berrien was the second commanding officer of the aircraft carrier {{USS|Lexington|CV-2|6}}.{{cite web |url=https://www.navsource.org/archives/02/02co.htm |title=USS Lexington (CV-2) |publisher=NavSource Naval History |access-date=2023-08-21}} From 1930 to 1934, he served as captain of the yard at the Washington Navy Yard.

From 1934 to 1935, Berrien was assigned to the hydrographic yard in Boston, Massachusetts. He retired from active duty on June 30, 1935 and was advanced to rear admiral on the retired list based on his service record.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=he8eAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA578 |title=Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps |date=July 1, 1942 |page=578 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=2023-08-21}} From March to July 1942, he was the only member of the Naval Academy Class of 1900 who returned to active duty during World War II. He was assigned to the 12th Naval District, where he supervised troop convoys between San Francisco, California and Australia.

In addition to his Distinguished Service Medal, Berrien was made a companion of the Order of St Michael and St George by the United Kingdom for his World War I service and a commander of the Order of the Saviour by Greece.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zqgPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA169 |title=Register of Alumni: Graduates and Former Naval Cadets and Midshipmen |date=July 1, 1956 |page=169 |publisher=The United States Naval Academy Alumni Association, Inc. |access-date=2023-08-21}} He died at his home in New Haven, Connecticut at the age of 73.{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/02/02/86960414.pdf |title=Admiral Berrien, Navy Veteran, 73: Commander of Destroyer That Captured U-58 in 1917 Dies— Coached Annapolis Football |date=February 2, 1951 |page=21 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2023-08-21}}

Head coaching record

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| name = Navy Midshipmen

| conf = Independent

| startyear = 1908

| endyear = 1910

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| year = 1908

| name = Navy

| overall = 9–2–1

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

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| year = 1909

| name = Navy

| overall = 4–3–1

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1910

| name = Navy

| overall = 8–0–1

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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Navy

| overall = 21–5–3

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{{CFB Yearly Record End

| overall = 21–5–3

| bowls = no

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| legend = no

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References

External links

[http://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=AssignmentExt&ID=1531001 Frank Berrien on Together We Served]

Category:1877 births

Category:1951 deaths

Category:People from Galesburg, Illinois

Category:United States Navy personnel of the Spanish–American War

Category:Military personnel from Iowa

Category:Navy Midshipmen football players

Category:Navy Midshipmen baseball players

Category:United States Naval Academy alumni

Category:American military personnel of the Boxer Rebellion

Category:American military personnel of the Philippine–American War

Category:Navy Midshipmen football coaches

Category:United States Naval Academy faculty