Arthur F. Smith | |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | c. 1913 |
Player Team2: | Missouri Wesleyan |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1914–1915 |
Coach Team2: | Leavenworth HS (KS) |
Coach Years3: | 1916–1917 |
Coach Team3: | Tucson HS (AZ) |
Coach Years4: | 1918 |
Coach Team4: | Kendall |
Coach Years5: | 1919 |
Coach Team5: | Baker |
Coach Years6: | 1920–1921 |
Coach Team6: | Kenyon |
Overall Record: | 8–12–7 |
Arthur F. Smith was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach the University of Tulsa in 1918, Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas, in 1919, and Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio from 1920 to 1921, compiling a career college football coaching record of record of 8–12–7.[1] [2] [3]
Smith attended Missouri Wesleyan College in Cameron, Missouri, where he played football and baseball before graduating in 1914. He began his coaching career in 1914 at Leavenworth High School in Leavenworth, Kansas and moved to Tucson High School in Tucson, Arizona two years later.[4] [5] [6] He joined the coaching staff at the University of Illinois in 1922.[7]