Art Kahler
 | |
| Sport(s) | Football, basketball, track and field |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born | December 27, 1897 |
| Died | April 23, 1982 (aged 84) |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1918–1922 | Southwestern (KS) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1928–1930 | Sterling |
| 1935–1941 | Dickinson |
| 1946–1947 | Southwestern (KS) |
| Basketball | |
| 1931–1938 | Brown |
| 1947–1948 | Southwestern (KS) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 60–35–8 (football) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Awards | |
| Kansas Sports Hall of Fame, 1974[1] | |
Arthur D. Kahler (December 27, 1897 – April 23, 1982) was an American college football and basketball player and coach. He was listed in "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" as only person to coach at two different major colleges at the same time—head basketball coach at Brown University and football coach at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.[1] He later became a coach and athletic director at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas.
Playing career
Kahler played football at Southwestern from 1918 until 1922. Walter Camp referred him as "a line of power" when he played Camp wrote high praises for his playing ability based on his senior year of 1922.[2]
Coaching career
Sterling
Kahler was the head football coach for the Sterling Warriors located in Sterling, Kansas.[3] He held that position for three seasons, from 1928 until 1930. His coaching record at Sterling was 19 wins, 5 losses and 2 ties.[4]
Brown and Dickinson
Kahler coached men's basketball at Brown University from 1931 to 1938.[5] At the same time, he was head football coach at Dickinson College,[6] even though the schools are over 350 miles apart.[7] Kahler coached his 100th football victory at Dickinson and also introduced night football to the school.[8] He coached at Dickinson college from 1935 to 1941 and posted a record of 27 wins, 25 losses, and 5 ties. He was the 23rd head football coach at Dickinson and is ranked fourth in total wins and 12th in winning percentage. [9]
Southwestern College
Kahler was the 11th football coach for the Southwestern College Moundbuilders in Winfield, Kansas and held that position two seasons, 1946 and 1947. His overall coaching record at Southwestern was 14 wins, 4 losses, and 1 ties.[10]
Kahler also served as the men's basketball coach at Southwestern for the 1947 and 1948 seasons, with an overall record of 13 wins and 13 losses.[11] He also served as the athletic director of the school as well as coach of the track and field teams.
Southwestern honored the memory of Kahler by naming the football field "Art Kahler Field."[12]
In 1974, Kahler was inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Kansas Sports Hall of Fame
- ↑ The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guide "The official rules book and record book of college football" (edited by Walter Camp) Can Sports Publishing Company, 1922
- ↑ "Football Media Guide" (PDF). Sterling Warriors. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
- ↑ DeLassus, David. "Sterling College Records By Year (incomplete data)". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
- ↑ Encyclopedia Brunoniana | Basketball
- ↑ Centennial Conference "2008 Centennial Conference Football Prospectus"
- ↑ Driving Directions on Mapquest.com
- ↑ Albright Notes 2001
- ↑ http://www.centennial.org/football/mediaguide/PDF/21-23-Dickinson.pdf
- ↑ Southwestern College - Winfield, KS
- ↑ scmbb
- ↑ Southwestern College - Winfield, KS