Frederick William Luehring (1882 – February 1, 1981) was an
American football
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,
basketball
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,
baseball
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, and
swimming
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coach college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at
Ripon College in
Ripon, Wisconsin
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Ripon is home to the Little White Schoolhouse, the commonly recognized birthplace of ...
from 1906 to 1909, compiling a record of 20–3–1. Luehring was the head basketball coach at Ripon from 1906 to 1910 and at
Princeton University
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from 1913 to 1920, amassing a career
college basketball
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coaching mark of 125–61.
Luehring was credited with starting the swim team at the
University of Nebraska
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in 1921 and later served as a committee member of the
US Olympic Swimming team.
As a college athlete, Luehring excelled at
North Central University
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and then at the
University of Chicago
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under head coach
Amos Alonzo Stagg
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.
In addition to his athletic pursuits Luehring also was an art collector. A selection of prints by Honore Daumier of people swimming were exhibited at
Lehigh University
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Art Gallery in 1958 with the assistance of Head Curator
Francis Quirk
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.
Luehring died at the age of 99, on February 1, 1981, at
Taylor Hospital
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History
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in
Ridley Park, Pennsylvania
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History
Native American
The Lenape inhabited the Delaw ...
.
Head coaching record
Football
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1880s births
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