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Irving Pray

Irving Pray

American football coach

Irving Rudolph Pray (December 25, 1886 – August 27, 1948) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont from 1913 to 1914 and Louisiana State University (LSU) for part of the 1916 season and for full seasons in 1919 and 1922, compiling a career college football coaching record of 11–20.[1]

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Pray was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] He was born in Natick, Massachusetts and died in Alexandria, Louisiana.[3][4]

Pray was the head football coach at Natick High School, in hometown in 1911. In 1915, he appointed head football coach at Salem High School in Salem, Massachusetts, succeeding Harold McDevitt.[5]

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  1. [1]
    "LSU Year-by-Year Records" (PDF). lsusports.net. p. 107. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 19, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
  2. [2]
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1915). Register of Former Students with an Account of the Alumni Associations, May 1915. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. p. 399. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  3. [3]
    "Person Details for Irving Rudolph Pray, "Massachusetts, Births, 1841-1915" — FamilySearch.org". familysearch.org. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
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    "Person Details for Irving R Pray, "Louisiana, Deaths Index, 1850-1875, 1894-1956" — FamilySearch.org". familysearch.org. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  5. [5]
    "Pray To Coach Salem High School Eleven". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. August 7, 1915. p. 2. Retrieved December 26, 2020 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
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