Ross Swartz

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| name = Ross Swartz

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| birth_date = {{Birth year|1893}}

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| death_date = {{Death year|1978}}

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| alma_mater = Lebanon Valley

| player_sport1 = Baseball

| player_years2 = 1915

| player_team2 = Gettysburg Patriots

| player_years3 = 1919

| player_team3 = Reading Coal Barons

| player_years4 = 1920

| player_team4 = Reading Marines

| player_years5 = 1921–1922

| player_team5 = Reading Aces

| player_years6 = 1922

| player_team6 = Pittsfield Hillies

| player_years7 = 1922

| player_team7 = Newark Bears

| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1919

| coach_team2 = Connecticut (assistant)

| coach_years3 = 1920

| coach_team3 = Connecticut

| coach_years4 = 1923–1929

| coach_team4 = Dickinson Seminary

| coach_years5 = 1930–1941

| coach_team5 = Juniata

| coach_sport6 = Basketball

| coach_years7 = 1919–1921

| coach_team7 = Connecticut

| coach_years8 = 1923–1930

| coach_team8 = Dickinson Seminary

| coach_years9 = 1930–1942

| coach_team9 = Juniata

| coach_sport10 = Baseball

| coach_years11 = 1921

| coach_team11 = Connecticut

| admin_years1 = 1923–1930

| admin_team1 = Dickinson Seminary

| overall_record = 29–23–5 (football)

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Milford Ross "Cardy" Swartz (1893 – 1978) was a minor league baseball player{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=swartz002ros|title=Ross Swartz|publisher=Baseball-Reference|access-date=December 30, 2018}} and an American football, college basketball and college baseball coach.

As an aside, nickname was Carty, shortened from Cart Horse which he got in school due to his strength. He was my grandfather and lived with my family when I was in school.

He served as the head football coach at the University of Connecticut in 1920.{{cite web|url=https://opencommons.uconn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1220&context=dcamp|title=UConn |publisher=University of Connecticut|access-date=December 30, 2018}}

After playing baseball in the International League, Swartz was hired as the head football coach and head basketball coach at Lycoming College–then known as Dickinson Seminary–in 1923.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w2W8LACcdTIC|title=Lycoming College, 1812–2012: On the Frontiers of American Education|first=John F.|last=Piper|publisher=Lexington Books|date=December 16, 2011|access-date=April 7, 2019}} His football teams achieved a record of 54 wins, 27 losses, and 4 at Dickinson.{{cite web|url=https://athletics.lycoming.edu/news/2011/9/2/FOOT_0902111930.aspx|title=200 MEMORIES: NOS. 11-20|publisher=Lycoming Warriors|access-date=April 7, 2019}}

Swartz later served as the head football coach (1930–1941) and head men's basketball (1930–1942) at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.{{cite web|url=http://www.juniatasports.net/sports/mbkb/2018-19/files/MBB_Records_Update_3.8.19.pdf|title=Juniata Basketball Records|publisher=Juniata College|access-date=April 7, 2019}}