Biographical details | |
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Born | Merrillville, Indiana, U.S. | May 16, 1885
Died | August 25, 1952 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | (aged 67)
Playing career | |
Football | |
1907–1908 | Chicago |
1915 | Canton Bulldogs |
Position(s) | Halfback |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1909–1910 | Miami (OH) |
1911–1913 | Simpson (IA) |
1916 | Otterbein |
1921 | Penn (IA) |
1929–1931 | Thornton HS (IL) |
Basketball | |
1910–1911 | Kentucky |
1911–1914 | Simpson (IA) |
1916–1917 | Otterbein |
1920–1921 | Carnegie Tech |
1921–1929 | Thornton HS (IL) |
Track | |
1915 | Yankton |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 16–26–1 (college football) 36–23 (college basketball) 7–5–2 (high school football) 59–39 (high school basketball) |
Harold Jonathan Iddings (May 16, 1885 – August 25, 1952)[1] was an American football player and coach of football, basketball and track and field. A 1909 graduate from the University of Chicago, he served as head football coach at Miami University from 1909 to 1910, at Simpson College from 1911 to 1913, at Otterbein College in 1916, and at Penn College—now known as William Penn University—in Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1921, compiling a career college football record of 16–26–1. Iddings was also the head basketball coach at the University of Kentucky (1910–1911), Simpson (1911–1914), Otterbein (1916–1917), and the Carnegie Institute of Technology (1920–1921).