Carl Magnue Johanson (1863 – August 2, 1933) was an
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
player and coach, known as the "father of
Cornell football". He convinced
Pop Warner
Glenn Scobey Warner (April 5, 1871 – September 7, 1954), most commonly known as Pop Warner, was an American college football coach at various institutions who is responsible for several key aspects of the modern game. Included among his inn ...
to attend Cornell. Johanson died at the age of 69, on August 2, 1933, in
Seattle, Washington
Seattle ( ) is a port, seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the county seat, seat of King County, Washington, King County, Washington (state), Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in bo ...
.
Head coaching record
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1933 deaths
1863 births
19th-century players of American football
American football tackles
Cornell Big Red football coaches
Cornell Big Red football players
Harvard Crimson football players
Williams Ephs football players
Players of American football from Seattle