Royce Purinton
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{{Short description|American football coach}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1877|10|27}}
| birth_place = West Bowdoin, Maine, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1919|3|25|1877|10|27}}
| death_place = Lewiston, Maine, U.S.
| alma_mater = Bates (1900)
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1902
| coach_team2 = Bates
| coach_years3 = 1904–1917
| coach_team3 = Bates
| admin_years1 = 1906–1919
| admin_team1 = Bates
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Royce Davis Purinton (October 27, 1877 – March 25, 1919) was an American college football coach.{{Cite book |title=Who's Who in New England |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RmUTAAAAYAAJ/page/n879 |publisher=A.N. Marquis |year=1915 |page=881 |access-date=July 10, 2018 |via=Internet Archive }} He served as the head football coach at Bates College in 1902 and from 1904 to 1917.{{Cite web |date=April 1, 1906 |title=Bates Student |url=https://scarab.bates.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=2875&context=bates_student |access-date=July 25, 2018 |publisher=Class of 1907 Bates College}} He also coached the Bates baseball team from 1906 to 1917.{{cite web |title=Baseball Year-by-Year Records |url=https://gobatesbobcats.com/sports/2020/7/19/baseball-year-by-year-records.aspx?id=754 |website=Bates Athletics |publisher=Bates College |access-date=18 January 2025}}
Biography
Purinton was born in West Bowdoin, Maine to Nathaniel S. and Jennie (Williams) Purinton. His father was the private secretary to three Governors of Maine.
Purinton was captain of the Bates football in 1899. After graduating, he worked for the Pejepscot Paper Company. He began his coaching career at Bates in 1902.{{cite news |title=Football At Bates |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VL0gAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA2&dq |access-date=19 January 2025 |work=The Lewiston Daily Sun |date=September 19, 1902}} He did not return the following season, nut was brought back in 1904.{{cite news |title=Football At Bates |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1iMgAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA2&dq |access-date=19 January 2025 |work=The Lewiston Daily Sun |date=September 16, 1904}} In 1906, he was named physical director of the college. In February 1918, he went to France to work as a physical director for the YMCA. He returned to Bates in January 1919.
Purinton died of heart failure, on March 25, 1919, in Lewiston, Maine.{{cite news |author= |title=Royce D. Purinton, Director Of Athletics At Bates, Dead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97554646/norwich-bulletin/ |newspaper=Norwich Bulletin |location=Norwich, Connecticut |date= March 26, 1919 |page=3 |access-date=March 13, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} He was survived by his wife, the former Rena A. Dresser of Turner, Maine and a son, Royce Jr. Their daughter, Frances, died of the spanish flu in 1918.{{cite news |title=Sudden Death of Royce Purinton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gg8gAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA3&dq |access-date=19 January 2025 |work=Lewiston Evening Journal |date=March 26, 1916}}
References
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External links
- {{Find a Grave|201265141}}
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