Jacob Speelman | |
Birth Date: | 9 February 1893 |
Birth Place: | Michigan, U.S. |
Death Place: | Crystal, Michigan, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | Oberlin |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | 1913–1915 |
Player Team2: | Missouri |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1917–1918 |
Coach Team2: | Oberlin |
Coach Years3: | 1920–1925 |
Coach Team3: | Aberdeen Normal |
Coach Sport4: | Basketball |
Coach Years5: | 1916–1917 |
Coach Team5: | Lawrence |
Coach Years6: | 1920–1926 |
Coach Team6: | Aberdeen Normal |
Admin Years1: | 1942–1943 |
Admin Team1: | Ferris State |
Overall Record: | 59–38 (basketball) |
Jacob Speelman (February 9, 1893 – August 9, 1972) was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He played college football at the University of Missouri, serving as team captain in 1915.[1]
Speelman began his coaching career as the head basketball coach at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin from 1916 to 1917.[2] He served as the head football coach at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio from 1917 to 1918 and Northern State University–then known as Aberdeen Normal College–in Aberdeen, South Dakota from 1923 to 1925. He also served as Aberdeen Normal's head basketball coach from 1920 to 1926.[3]