Ernest Brazier Cozens (November 24, 1888 – June 8, 1929) was an
American football
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player and college administrator. He was one of the first "roving centers" in American football and was named an All-American in 1910.
Athlete
Born in
Haddonfield, New Jersey
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Haverford School
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where he played football, baseball and cricket.
[ He enrolled at the ]University of Pennsylvania
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in 1907 and became one of the greatest athletes in the school's history. He was selected as an All-American at the center
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in 1910,[ In the 1910 game between Penn and the Haskell Indian School, Cozens intercepted a pass and returned it 80 yards for a touchdown. He was also the catcher for the Penn baseball team.
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Coach and administrator
After graduating from Penn, Cozens was a football coach at Carnegie Tech
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and a baseball coach at Shady Side Academy }
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In 1922, Cozens was hired as the graduate manager of athletics at Penn. In that capacity, he was one of the organizers of intercollegiate boxing and served as the President of the Eastern Intercollegiate Boxing Association. He also helped organize and served as President of the ]Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League The Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League was a baseball-only conference that existed from 1930 to 1992. It consisted of the eight Ivy League schools along with Army and Navy. The league disbanded after the 1992 season, when Army and Navy joined ...
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Family and death
Cozens was married in 1919 to Amelia Schmertz. They had four children, Ernest B. Cozens, Jr. (born c. 1917, Amelia Cozens (born c. 1920), William Cozens (born c. 1924) and Lee Cozens (born c. 1927). He died suddenly of heart failure while sitting in his office at Penn.
Head coaching record
College football
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1888 births
1929 deaths
American football centers
Carnegie Mellon Tartans football coaches
Penn Quakers football players
High school baseball coaches in the United States
All-American college football players
Haverford School alumni
People from Haddonfield, New Jersey