Raymond Alexander Turnbull (August 29, 1880 – August 13, 1939) 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 and physician. He served as player/coach at

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for one season in 1903, compiling a record of 4–4. Turnbull was born on August 29, 1880, in

Elmira, New York Elmira () is a city and the county seat of Chemung County, New York, United States. It is the principal city of the Elmira, New York, metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses Chemung County. The population was 26,523 at the 2020 cens ...

, to William P. and Jenny E. Turnbull. He was educated in public schools of Elmira and

Ithaca, New York Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, Ithaca is the seat of Tompkins County and the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area. It is named a ...

. Turnbull attended

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, where he played

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as an

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in 1901. He earned a medical degree from the University of Buffalo in 1904 and practiced medicine in Elmira. Turnbull served in the

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during

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as a major and chief surgeon of the 107th Infantry Regiment in France. He died on August 13, 1939, in Elmira, after being hospitalized for a heart ailment.

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