Louis Alonzo Young (February 19, 1893 – July 19, 1948) 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 the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

from 1923 to 1929, compiling a record of 49–15–2. Young played

college football College football (french: Football universitaire) refers to gridiron football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States. Unlike most ...

at Penn from 1912 to 1914, captaining the team in 1913. He died at the age of 56 on July 19, 1948 in

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

Head coaching record

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* 1893 births 1948 deaths American football ends American football halfbacks Penn Quakers football coaches Penn Quakers football players Players of American football from Philadelphia {{Amfoot-bio-stub