Burt E. Kennedy
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 22, 1883 Iowa, U.S. |
| Died | July 16, 1935 (aged 52) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Alma mater | Simpson (1904) Olivet (1908) |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| c. 1903 | Simpson (IA) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1904–1907 | Olivet |
| 1908–1913 | Lake Forest |
| Basketball | |
| 1906–1907 | Olivet |
| 1908–1914 | Lake Forest |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1904–1908 | Olivet |
| 1908–1914 | Lake Forest |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 50–15–6 (football) 59–38 (basketball) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Football 1 MIAA (1906) | |
Burt E. Kennedy (February 22, 1883 – July 16, 1935) was an American college football and college basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Olivet College—now known as the University of Olivet—in Olivet, Michigan from 1904 to 1907 and Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois from 1908 to 1913.
Early life
[edit]Kennedy was originally from Lake Forest, Illinois, and graduated from Simpson College, in Indianola, Iowa, in 1904.[1] He played football at Simpson, earning All-Iowa honors for three consecutive seasons.[2]
Coaching career
[edit]Kennedy served as the head football coach, head basketball coach, and athletic director at Olivet College in Olivet, Michigan for four years beginning in 1904.
In 1908, Kennedy was appointed athletic director, coach, and mathematics instructor at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois.[2] He served as Lake Forest's head basketball coach from 1908 to 1914, leading his teams to a record of 58–20 in six seasons.[3] Kennedy stepped down from his role at Lake Forest in the spring of 1914, and planned to go into business.[4]
Later life and death
[edit]In 1914, Kennedy began working with Swift & Company of Chicago. In 1919, he was appointed general manager for Swift International in South America.[5] He died on July 16, 1935, in Buenos Aires, from injuries he sustained in an automobile accident several days earlier.[6] Kennedy was the brother of Walter S. Kennedy, who was also a college football and college basketball coach and later a newspaper publisher.[5]
Head coaching record
[edit]Football
[edit]| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olivet Crimson (Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1904–1907) | |||||||||
| 1904 | Olivet | 5–3 | 4–2 | ||||||
| 1905 | Olivet | 4–4 | 3–3 | T–3rd | |||||
| 1906 | Olivet | 5–0–1 | 5–0–1 | 1st | |||||
| 1907 | Olivet | 7–2 | 5–1 | ||||||
| Olivet: | 21–9–1 | 17–6–1 | |||||||
| Lake Forest Foresters (Independent) (1908–1913) | |||||||||
| 1908 | Lake Forest | 4–1–1 | |||||||
| 1909 | Lake Forest | 5–1–1 | |||||||
| 1910 | Lake Forest | 5–2 | |||||||
| 1911 | Lake Forest | 5–1–1 | |||||||
| 1912 | Lake Forest | 5–0–1 | |||||||
| 1913 | Lake Forest | 5–1–1 | |||||||
| Lake Forest: | 29–6–5 | ||||||||
| Total: | 50–15–6 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth | |||||||||
References
[edit]- ^ General Catalogue. Olivet College. 1905. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
- ^ a b "New Coach At Lake Forest". Waukegan Daily Sun. Waukegan, Illinois. September 12, 1908. p. 7. Retrieved March 22, 2025 – via Newspapers.com
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- ^ "Men's Basketball Head Coaching Overall Records". Lake Forest College Athletics. Retrieved March 22, 2025.
- ^ "Kennedy Quits Lake Forest". The Racine Journal-News. Racine, Wisconsin. May 7, 1914. p. 7. Retrieved March 22, 2025 – via Newspapers.com .
- ^ a b "Accident Fatal To Burt Kennedy". The Waukegan News-Sun. Waukegan, Illinois. July 17, 1935. p. 2. Retrieved March 22, 2025 – via Newspapers.com .
- ^ "Nephew Dies In Argentine Motor Wreck". The Ogden Standard-Examiner. Ogden, Utah. July 19, 1935. p. 12. Retrieved March 22, 2025 – via Newspapers.com .
- ^ "Year-by-year Win-loss Records And Season Information". University of Olivet. Retrieved March 22, 2025.
- ^ "Football Head Coaching Year-by-Year Records". Lake Forest College Athletics. Retrieved March 22, 2025.
- 1883 births
- 1935 deaths
- Lake Forest Foresters athletic directors
- Lake Forest Foresters football coaches
- Lake Forest Foresters men's basketball coaches
- Olivet Comets athletic directors
- Olivet Comets football coaches
- Olivet Comets men's basketball coaches
- Simpson Storm football players
- Lake Forest College faculty
- Olivet College alumni
- Sportspeople from Lake Forest, Illinois
- Coaches of American football from Illinois
- Players of American football from Illinois
- Basketball coaches from Illinois
- Road incident deaths in Argentina