Harry E. Trout

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| name = Harry E. Trout

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1876|4|4}}

| birth_place = Lykens, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1941|1|11|1876|4|4}}

| death_place = Johnstown, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| alma_mater = Lafayette College

| coach_years1 = 1903

| coach_team1 = West Virginia

| overall_record = 7–1

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| awards = Third-team All-American (1899)

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Harry Edgar Trout (April 4, 1876 – January 11, 1941) was an American college football coach. He serve as the ninth head football coach at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia and he held that position for the 1903 season. His coaching record at West Virginia was 7–1.[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigeast/west_virginia/coaching_records.php West Virginia Mountaineers football coaching records] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081025034734/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigeast/west_virginia/coaching_records.php |date=October 25, 2008 }}

Trout was the first coach at West Virginia to record a victory over rival Washington and Jefferson with a 6–0 win on November 26, 1903. The game marked not only the first victory over Washington and Jefferson, but the first time after nine attempts West Virginia had managed to score against the "Presidents".[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigeast/west_virginia/vs_conf_opponents_records.php?teamid=3422&confid=166 College Football Data Warehouse] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525214657/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigeast/west_virginia/vs_conf_opponents_records.php?teamid=3422&confid=166 |date=2011-05-25 }} West Virginia vs Washington & Jefferson (PA)

Trout graduated from Lafayette College in 1903 and married Jane McBride of Portland, Oregon in January 1913 at Chicago.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/monticola1905west#page/156/mode/2up|title=The Monticola|date=1896 |publisher=Chicago, A.L. Swift & Co |access-date=September 15, 2015}}{{cite book|title=The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta|author=Phi Delta Theta Fraternity|date=1914|volume=38|publisher=Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.|issn=0036-9799|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QQQTAAAAIAAJ|access-date=September 15, 2015}} Trout later worked for a steel company in Pennsylvania.{{cite web|url=http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/john-franklin-stonecipher/biographical-catalogue-of-lafayette-college-1832-1912-not.shtml|title=Ebook Biographical catalogue of Lafayette college, 1832-1912 by John Franklin Stonecipher - read online or download for free|author=Denis Larionov & Alexander Zhulin|publisher=ebooksread.com|access-date=September 15, 2015}} From 1936 to 1938 he served on the Lafayette College board of trustees.{{cite book |last1=Gendebien |first1=Albert W. |title=The Biography of a College: A History of Lafayette College 1927 - 1978 |date=1986 |publisher=Lafayette College |location=Easton, PA}} He died January 11, 1941, in Johnstown and was buried in Granview Cemetery in that city.