Howard Matthew Gargan (December 12, 1886 – January 21, 1945) 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. He Served as the head football coach at

Fordham University Fordham University () is a Private university, private Jesuit universities, Jesuit research university in New York City. Established in 1841 and named after the Fordham, Bronx, Fordham neighborhood of the The Bronx, Bronx in which its origina ...

from 1908 to 1909 and at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

from 1910 to 1912, compiling a career

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record of 22–12–6. In 1917, he joined the United States Army but did not see combat in Europe. He attained the rank of captain and resigned from the Army in 1927, having served in Fort Riley, Kansas and Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Head coaching record

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