Joshua Wilder Tasker (June 25, 1887 – March 14, 1974) was an
American football
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,
basketball
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, and
baseball
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coach. He served as the head football coach at Connecticut Agricultural College—now known as the
University of Connecticut
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—from 1921 to 1922, the
College of William & Mary
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from 1923 to 1927, and
Rutgers University
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from 1931 to 1937, compiling a career
college football
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Unlike most ...
record of 67–52–11. Wilder was also the head basketball coach at Connecticut from 1921 to 1923 and William & Mary from 1923 to 1928, tallying a career
college basketball
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mark of 66–49. In addition he served as the head baseball coach at Connecticut (1922–1923), William & Mary (1924–1928), and Rutgers (1932–1937), amassing a career
college baseball
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record of 88–108–4.
Coaching career
Tasker became athletic coach at Connecticut Agricultural College—now known as the
University of Connecticut
The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from Hart ...
—in 1921. He resigned as coach at Connecticut in January 1923. Connecticut's
athletic director
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,
Roy J. Guyer, took over coaching of the
Connecticut Aggies men's basketball team.
In March 1923, Tasker was hired at athletic director and coach at the
College of William & Mary
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in
Williamsburg, Virginia
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.
Later life and death
After leaving from coaching, Tasker ran an insurance business in
Orange, New Jersey
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Orange was original ...
. He retired in the 1960s and moved to
Kilmarnock, Virginia
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, where he died at his home, on March 14, 1974.
Head coaching record
Football
Basketball
Baseball
The following table depicts Tasker's record as head baseball coach at Connecticut.
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1887 births
1974 deaths
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