Dick Harlow

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Richard C. Harlow
Sport	Football
Born	October 19, 1889
Place of birth	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	February 19, 1962
Place of death	Bethesda, Maryland
Career Highlights
Overall	149-69-17
Coaching Stats
College Football DataWarehouse
School as a player
1910-1911	Penn State
Position	Tackle
Coaching positions
1915-1917 1922-1925 1926-1934 1935-1942,1945-1947	Penn State Colgate Western Maryland Harvard
College Football Hall of Fame, 1954 (Bio)

Richard C. “Dick” Harlow (born October 19, 1889 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – died February 19, 1962 in Bethesda, Maryland) was a Hall of Fame football coach. Harlow pioneered modern defensive schemes. Often fielding undersized teams, he pioneered coordinated stunts to get around or between blockers rather than trying to overpower them. His offenses were based on deception and timing rather than power, utilizing shifts, reverses, and lateral passes.

As a tackle at Penn State University, Harlow distinguished himself during the 1910 and 1911 seasons. A two-year letterman, he also was a member of the baseball and track and field teams. Upon graduation, he remained with the Nittany Lions as an assistant coach for three seasons and was named head coach in 1915. After compiling a 20-8-0 record in three seasons, Harlow entered the military in 1918.

He returned to Penn State as assistant coach in 1919. Harlow went on to become the head coach at Colgate University from 1922 to 1925 and Western Maryland College from 1926 to 1934.

In 1935, Harlow became the first non-alumnus ever to coach at Harvard. It was there Harlow was voted Coach-of-the-Year in 1936 and a year later was chosen as the Ivy League Coach-of-the-Year. He retired in 1947 with a lifetime record of 150-68-17, and was named to the National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame in 1954.

Harlow was a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1 Coaching record
2 Trivia
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Coaching record

Year	Team	Overall
Penn State Nittany Lions (1915 — 1917)
1915	Penn State	7-2-0
1916	Penn State	8-2-0
1917	Penn State	5-4-0
Penn State:		20-8-0
Colgate Raiders (1922 — 1925)
1922	Colgate	6-3-0
1923	Colgate	6-2-1
1924	Colgate	5-4-0
1925	Colgate	7-0-2
Colgate:		24-9-3
Western Maryland Green Terror (1926 — 1934)
1926	Western Maryland	6-1-0
1927	Western Maryland	6-2-0
1928	Western Maryland	6-2-1
1929	Western Maryland	11-0-0
1930	Western Maryland	9-0-1
1931	Western Maryland	4-4-2
1932	Western Maryland	5-1-2
1933	Western Maryland	5-3-0
1934	Western Maryland	8-0-1
Western Maryland:		60-13-7
Harvard Crimson (1935 — 1942, 1945 — 1947)
1935	Harvard	3-5-0
1936	Harvard	3-4-1
1937	Harvard	5-2-1
1938	Harvard	4-4-0
1939	Harvard	4-4-0
1940	Harvard	3-2-3
1941	Harvard	5-2-1
1942	Harvard	2-6-1
1945	Harvard	5-3-0
1946	Harvard	7-2-0
1947	Harvard	4-5-0
Harvard:		45-39-7
Total:		149-69-17

[edit] Trivia

Harlow was an expert in Oology, the study of birds' eggs. In 1939, he was named curator of oology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, and he remained in that position until 1954.