Carl_Anderson_(American_football)

Carl Anderson (American football)

Carl Anderson (American football)

American football coach (1898–1978)

Carl Rudolph Frederick "Swede" Anderson IV (September 9, 1898 – April 30, 1978) was an American college football coach at Western Kentucky University and Howard Payne University. Anderson graduated from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky in 1924,[2] where he played in the backfield with legendary alumnus Bo McMillin. Anderson then followed McMillin to Centenary College of Louisiana and Geneva College.[3] Anderson then served one year as the head football coach at Western Kentucky,[4] before moving to Kansas State as its freshman team coach in 1930.[3] Anderson returned to Western Kentucky as its head coach from 1934 to 1937.[4] He was the backfield coach under McMillin at Indiana from 1938 to 1945.[5] He then returned to his alma mater, Centre College, where he coached the Praying Colonels until 1950.[6] The following season, Anderson became the seventh head football coach at the Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas and held that position from 1951 to 1952. His coaching record at Howard Payne was 7–10.[4] Anderson died in 1978 of a heart attack, in Oceanside, California.[7]

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  1. [1]
    http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1231&context=dlsc_ua_records [bare URL PDF]
  2. [2]
    Epsilon Chapter of Beta Theta Pi: 100 Years at Centre (1848–1948) Archived May 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine (PDF), Centre College.
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    e-yearbook.com (tm). "Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS), Class of 1931, Page 294 of 434 | E-Yearbook.com has the largest online yearbook collection of college yearbooks, university yearbooks, high school yearbooks, middle school yearbooks, military yearbooks, and naval cruise books | Yearbook pictures | Yearbook photographs | Yearbook photos | Yearbook images". e-yearbook.com. Retrieved 2024-02-16.
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    "Carl "Swede" Anderson Records by Year". Archived from the original on 2010-02-13. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
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    "Former Centenary Grid Star Goes To Indiana". Monroe Morning World. March 20, 1938. p. 9. Retrieved June 8, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
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    Football Coaches Archived February 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, CentreCyclopedia, Centre College, retrieved July 13, 2009.
  7. [7]
    "Former coach died recently". The Daily News. Bowling Green, Kentucky. June 1, 1978. p. 20-A. Retrieved April 25, 2019 – via Google News.
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