Mason B. Thomas

{{Short description|American phytopathologist, botanist, professor, and football coach}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1866|12|16}}

| birth_place = New Woodstock, New York, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1912|3|6|1866|12|16}}

| death_place = Crawfordsville, Indiana, U.S.

| alma_mater = Cornell University (1890)

| coach_years1 = 1891

| coach_team1 = Wabash

| overall_record = 1–3

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Mason Blanchard Thomas (December 16, 1866 – March 6, 1912){{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofind1911indi/proceedingsofind1911indi_djvu.txt|title=Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science|year=1911}} was an American phytopathologist, botanist, professor of both those subjects,{{cite journal | last=Kent | first=G C | title=Important Little-Known Contributors to Plant Pathology: Mason Blanchard Thomas | journal=Annual Review of Phytopathology | publisher=Annual Reviews | volume=17 | issue=1 | year=1979 | issn=0066-4286 | doi=10.1146/annurev.py.17.090179.000321 | pages=21–28 | s2cid=86279685| doi-access=free }} {{s2cid|85833202}}{{cite web | title=Thomas Labs | website=Dear Old Wabash | date=July 10, 2009 | url=http://blog.wabash.edu/dearoldwabash/2009/07/10/thomas-labs/ | access-date=July 1, 2021 }} and college football coach. He was the sixth head football coach at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, serving for one season, in 1891, and compiling a record of 1–3.[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iii/ncac/wabash/coaching_records.php Wabash College coaching records] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121010223/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iii/ncac/wabash/coaching_records.php |date=November 21, 2010 }}

Thomas was born on December 16, 1866, in New Woodstock, New York. He graduated from Cornell University in 1890 with Bachelor of Science. Following his graduation, he spent a year as biology fellow at Cornell before going to Wabash College in 1891 as a professor of botany. Thomas was the dean of faculty at Wabash for 12 years, until his death in 1912. He died on March 6, 1912, after a two-week illness with pleurisy, at his home in Crawfordsville.{{cite news |author= |title=Edward N. Eisenberg |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-news/151312588/ |newspaper=Indianapolis News |location=Indianapolis, Indiana |date=March 7, 1912 |page=8 |access-date=July 14, 2024 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}