Myron Ellis Witham (October 29, 1880 – March 7, 1973) was an

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player, coach of football and

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

, and

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

professor. He served as the head football coach at

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in 1906 and at the

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from 1920 to 1931, compiling a career

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record of 63–31–7. He was also the head baseball coach Colorado from 1920 to 1925, tallying a mark of 29–25. Witham was born in

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, on October 29, 1880. He attended

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and was captain of the football team there in 1903. Witham taught mathematics at Purdue, Colorado, the

University of Vermont The University of Vermont (UVM), officially the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1791 and is amon ...

, and

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. He died on March 7, 1973, in

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Head coaching record

Football

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