Harry Trotter
{{Short description|American football coach}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Harry Trotter
| image = Harry Trotter.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Trotter pictured in Southern Campus 1923, UCLA yearbook
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1890|10|18}}
| birth_place = Kansas, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1954|12|28|1890|10|18}}
| death_place = Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
| alma_mater =
| player_sport1 = Track and field
| player_years2 = {{Circa|1910}}
| player_team2 = USC
| player_positions = Shot putter
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1916–1917
| coach_team2 = Manual Arts HS (CA)
| coach_years3 = 1918–1919
| coach_team3 = Pasadena HS (CA)
| coach_years4 = 1920–1922
| coach_team4 = Southern Branch
| coach_years5 = 1943–1944
| coach_team5 = Willamette
| coach_sport6 = Basketball
| coach_years7 = 1943–?
| coach_team7 = Willamette
| coach_sport8 = Track and field
| coach_years9 = 1920–1946
| coach_team9 = Southern Branch / UCLA
| overall_record = 7–16–1 (college football)
| bowl_record =
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| championships =
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}}
Harry Elbert "Cap" Trotter (October 18, 1890 – December 28, 1954){{cite web | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BANYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ovYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5885,5920935&dq=trotter+and+ucla+and+coach&hl=en | title=Spokane Daily Chronicle - Google News Archive Search }} was an American football, basketball, and track and field coach. He served as the head football the Southern Branch of the University of California—now known as the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)—from 1920 to 1922 and at Willamette University from 1943 to 1944, compiling a career college football record of 7–16–1. He was inducted into the Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame in 1989.{{cite web |url=http://www.vcshf.com/hall_of_fame_members.htm |title=Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame |accessdate=December 2, 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120055452/http://www.vcshf.com/hall_of_fame_members.htm |archivedate=November 20, 2008 }}
Coaching career
UCLA began to play in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) in 1920, and competed against Occidental College, California Institute of Technology, University of Redlands, Whittier College, and Pomona College. Coach Trotter's two wins were against Redlands and San Diego State University, which did not join the SCIAC until 1926.
Head coaching record
=College football=
{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Southern Branch Cubs
| conf = Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
| startyear = 1920
| endyear = 1922
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1920
| name = Southern Branch
| overall = 0–5
| conference = 0–5
| confstanding = 6th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1921
| name = Southern Branch
| overall = 0–5
| conference = 0–5
| confstanding = 6th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1922
| name = Southern Branch
| overall = 2–3–1
| conference = 1–3–1
| confstanding = T–4th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Southern Branch
| overall = 2–13–1
| confrecord = 1–13–1
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Willamette Bearcats
| conf = Northwest Conference
| startyear = 1943
| endyear = 1944
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1943
| name = Willamette
| overall = 2–1
| conference = NA
| confstanding = NA
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1944
| name = Willamette
| overall = 3–2
| conference = NA
| confstanding = NA
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Willamette
| overall = 5–3
| confrecord =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 7–16–1
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
| legend = no
}}
References
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{{UCLA Bruins football coach navbox}}
{{Willamette Bearcats football coach navbox}}
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