Ted Shultz
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Short description|American football player and coach (1893–1986)}}
{{Distinguish|Ted Schulz}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Ted Shultz
| image = ted_shultz.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Shultz c. 1916
| sport =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1893|11|24}}
| birth_place = Logansport, Indiana
| death_date = {{Death date|1986|02|}}
| death_place =
| alma_mater =
| player_years1 = 1912–1915
| player_team1 = Washington and Lee
| player_years2 = 1917
| player_team2 = Camp Jackson
| player_positions = Tackle
| coach_years1 = 1916
| coach_team1 = Denver (freshman)
| coach_years2 = 1919
| coach_team2 = Washington and Lee (assistant)
| overall_record =
| bowl_record =
| tournament_record =
| championships =
| awards = All-American (1914)
2x All-Southern (1914, 1915)
| coaching_records =
}}
Edwin Beswick Shultz (November 24, 1893 – February 1986) was a college football player and coach.
Early years
Shultz was born on November 24, 1893, in Logansport, Indiana to Dr. John Beswick Shultz and Anna L. Cooper. He attended Logansport High School.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/calxy1916wash#page/74/mode/2up/search/logansport|title=Calyx|year=1916|page=74|publisher=Washington and Lee University}}
Washington and Lee
=Football=
Shultz was a prominent All-American tackle for the Washington and Lee Generals of Washington and Lee University from 1912 to 1915.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RykTAAAAYAAJ&q=ted+schultz|title=Only Yesterday in Lexington, Virginia|page=26|author=John Seymor Letcher|year=1974|publisher=McClure Press}} He was renowned for his size at the time, somewhere between 6 feet 2 inches and 6 feet 4 inches.e. g.{{cite news|title=Two Great Records For W. And L. Team|date=November 18, 1915|newspaper=The Washington Post}}
==1912==
Shultz was the only freshman to make the varsity this season.{{cite news|url=http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=TD19131013.1.6#|title=First Year Men May Make Eleven|work=The Times-Dispatch|date=October 13, 1913}} Shultz and captain Buck Miles were the tackles, a duo which "scintillated."{{cite news|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038615/1913-09-27/ed-1/seq-7/|title=Blue and White is Ready for Medicos|work=The Times-Dispatch|date=September 27, 1913}}
==1914==
Shultz was a member of the undefeated SAIAA champion 1914 team, which secured a share of the title when it finished the season with a victory over North Carolina A & M. The team included College Football Hall of Fame inductee Harry "Cy" Young.
An account of the 10 to 0 victory over Swarthmore that year reads "Left tackle Ted Shultz starred for the victors making long gains on forward passes and effecting tackles that checked Swarthmore."{{cite news|work=Charleston Mail|title=Generals Beat Swarthmore|date=November 9, 1914}}
==1915==
He was captain of W&L's 1915 team.{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NYkmAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA322|journal=Indiana University Alumni Quarterly|title=The Indianapolis Football Game|page=322|volume=2|year=1915}}{{cite news|url=http://leomfrank.org/library/newspapers/atlanta-constitution-1914-12-13-full-pages.pdf|title=Shultz Is Named 1915 Captain by Washington & Lee|date=December 13, 1914|work=Atlanta Constitution}}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} During World War I, he played for Camp Jackson.
=Basketball=
Shultz also played on the basketball team.
Denver
Shultz was once a secretary for the YMCA in Denver, Colorado,{{cite journal|title=Alumni Notes|journal=The Phi Gamma Delta|year=1879|volume=39|page=544|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yOISAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA544}} and coached the freshman team of the University of Denver.{{cite news|url=http://digitaldu.coalliance.org/fedora/repository/codu%3A64367/LH1.D4C53v.21no.1-1916.pdf/LH1.D4C53v.21no.1-1916.pdf|work=The Denver Clarion|title=Frosh Squad Proves Largest In Years|date=September 27, 1916|access-date=December 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211151236/http://digitaldu.coalliance.org/fedora/repository/codu%3A64367/LH1.D4C53v.21no.1-1916.pdf/LH1.D4C53v.21no.1-1916.pdf#|archive-date=December 11, 2014|url-status=dead}}{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6oPOAAAAMAAJ&q=shultz|journal=The Graduate Magazine of the University of Kansas|page=9|year=1923|volume=22|title=1}}
References
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Category:Year of death missing
Category:American football tackles
Category:Denver Pioneers football coaches
Category:Washington and Lee Generals football coaches
Category:Washington and Lee Generals football players
Category:Washington and Lee Generals men's basketball players
Category:All-American college football players
Category:All-Southern college football players
Category:People from Logansport, Indiana