Nelson A. Kellogg

Nelson A. Kellogg
Kellogg pictured in Epitome 1934, Lehigh yearbook
Biographical details
Born(1881-01-30)January 30, 1881
East Richford, Vermont, U.S.
DiedNovember 23, 1945(1945-11-23) (aged 64)
Central Lake, Michigan, U.S.
Playing career
Track
c. 1904Michigan
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1906–1909Northern Illinois State Normal
Basketball
1906–1910Northern Illinois State Normal
Baseball
1907–1910Northern Illinois State Normal
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1910–1917Iowa
1919–1930Purdue
1934–1939Lehigh
Head coaching record
Overall8–17–3 (football)
17–27 (basketball)
26–17 (baseball)

Nelson Austin Kellogg (January 30, 1881 – November 23, 1945)[1] was a track athlete, American football, basketball, and baseball coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Northern Illinois State Normal School—now known as Northern Illinois University—from 1906 to 1909, compiling a record of 8–17–3. Kellogg was also the head basketball coach at Northern Illinois from 1906 to 1910, amassing a record of 17–27, and the head baseball coach at the school from 1907 to 1910, tallying a mark of 26–17. He ran track at the University of Michigan, from which he graduated in 1904.

Kellogg left Northern Illinois to become the University of Iowa's first athletic director in 1910 and served in that capacity until leaving for World War I in 1917. He was the athletic director at Purdue University from 1919 to 1930 and at Lehigh University from 1934 until he retired on February 11, 1939.[2][3] Kellogg died at the age of 64 on November 23, 1945, at his home in Central Lake, Michigan.[4]

  1. ^ Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1950
  2. ^ http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/eb/supp/1414/index.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  3. ^ "Epitome: Yearbook 1941". Lehigh University. 1941.
  4. ^ "Col. Nelson A. Kellogg; Ex-Athletic Director at Purdue and Lehigh, Once Track Star" (PDF). The New York Times. Associated Press. November 24, 1945. Retrieved February 25, 2011.