Edward Herr | |
Birth Date: | 4 January 1883[1] |
Birth Place: | Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.[2] |
Death Place: | Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | University of Vermont |
Player Years1: | 1902–1905 |
Player Team1: | Dartmouth |
Coach Years1: | 1906–1907 |
Coach Team1: | New Hampshire |
Coach Years2: | 1908 |
Coach Team2: | Vermont |
Overall Record: | 6–13–6 |
Edward Albert Herr (January 4, 1883 – March 18, 1950) was an American player and head coach of college football, and a physician.
Herr was a 1906 graduate of Dartmouth College, where he played football for four years as a halfback and end.[3] He then served as head coach of the New Hampshire football team in 1906 and 1907, and for the Vermont football team in 1908.[4] In his three seasons as a head coach, Herr compiled an overall 6–13–6 record, for a winning percentage.
In August 1906, Herr saved two women from drowning following a canoe accident in Squam Lake in New Hampshire.[5] Following his time as a head coach, Herr earned his medical degree at the University of Vermont and went on to practice medicine in Hartford, Connecticut; Boston, Massachusetts; and Waterbury, Connecticut. He died in March 1950 at Saint Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, following a brief illness.[6]