Carl Forkum

Carl Forkum
Biographical details
Forkum pictured in La Vie 1905, Penn State yearbook
Sport(s)	Football, baseball
Born	(1882-11-21)November 21, 1882 Clarion, Pennsylvania
Died	March 19, 1934(1934-03-19) (aged 51) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Alma mater	Penn State (1905)^[1] Washington & Jefferson^[2]
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1905–1906	West Virginia
Baseball
1906–1908	West Virginia
Head coaching record
Overall	13–6 (football) 59–27–1 (baseball)

Carl Schurz Forkum was an American football and baseball coach. He served as the 11th head football coach for the West Virginia University Mountaineers located in Morgantown, West Virginia and he held that position for two seasons, from 1905 until 1906.^[3] His coaching record at West Virginia was 13 wins, 6 losses, and 0 ties. As of the conclusion of the 2007 season, this ranks him 15th at West Virginia in total wins and seventh at West Virginia in winning percentage (.684).^[4]

Forkum died in 1934 of "complications of diseases" after a month in a hospital.^[5] At the time of his death he worked for a steel company and served on the local school board.^[6] He was buried in Franklin Cemetery in Franklin, Pennsylvania.^[7]

References

↑ Walsh, C.; Whittle, G.; Intercollegiate Football, Inc. (Saint Paul, Minn.). (1934). Intercollegiate football: a complete pictorial and statistical review from 1869 to 1934. Published by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., for Intercollegiate Football, Inc. Retrieved 2015-09-15.
↑ "The Pittsburgh Press - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2015-09-15.
↑ College Football Reference West Virginia Football Records
↑ West Virginia Mountaineers football coaching records
↑ "Deaths of the Day", New Castle News, Monday, March 19, 1934, New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States Of America
↑ "Donora Mill Official Called by Death", Monessen Daily Independent, The, Monday, March 19, 1934, Monessen, Pennsylvania, United States Of America
↑ "Carl Schurz Forkum (1882 - 1934) - Find A Grave Memorial". findagrave.com. Retrieved 2015-09-15.

External links

Carl Forkum at the College Football Data Warehouse

West Virginia Mountaineers head football coaches

Frederick Lincoln Emory (1891)
No team (1892)
F. William Rane (1893–1894)
Harry McCrory (1895)
Thomas Trenchard (1896)
George Krebs (1897)
Harry Anderson (1898)
Lewis Yeager (1899)
John Ethan Hill (1900)
Lewis Yeager (1901–1902)
Harry E. Trout (1903)
Anthony Chez (1904)
Carl Forkum (1905–1906)
Clarence W. Russell (1907)
Charles Augustus Lueder (1908–1911)
William P. Edmunds (1912)
Edwin Sweetland (1913)
Sol Metzger (1914–1915)
Mont McIntire (1916–1917)
No team (1918)
Mont McIntire (1919–1920)
Clarence Spears (1921–1924)
Ira Rodgers (1925–1930)
Greasy Neale (1931–1933)
Charles Tallman (1934–1936)
Marshall Glenn (1937–1939)
Bill Kern (1940–1942)
Ira Rodgers (1943–1945)
Bill Kern (1946–1947)
Dudley DeGroot (1948–1949)
Art Lewis (1950–1959)
Gene Corum (1960–1965)
Jim Carlen (1966–1969)
Bobby Bowden (1970–1975)
Frank Cignetti Sr. (1976–1979)
Don Nehlen (1980–2000)
Rich Rodriguez (2001–2007)
Bill Stewart (2007–2010)
Dana Holgorsen (2011– )

West Virginia Mountaineers head baseball coaches

No coach (1892–1893)
A. R. Stahlings (1894–1896)
J. E. B. Sweeney (1897–1898)
Owen Altman (1899–1900)
H. Brown (1901)
Lee Hutchinson (1902–1905)
Carl Forkum (1906–1908)
Dick Nebinger (1909)
J. L. Core (1910)
L. L. McClure (1911)
John Gronninger (1912)
Charlie Hickman (1913)
B. P. Pattison (1914)
Charlie Hickman (1915–1917)
Skeeter Shelton (1918–1920)
Ira Rodgers (1921–1942)
No team (1943–1945)
Ira Rodgers (1946)
Charles Hockenberry (1947)
Steve Harrick (1948–1967)
Dale Ramsburg (1968–1994)
Greg Van Zant (1995–2012)
Randy Mazey (2013– )

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/20/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.