A . Barr Snively A . Barr " Whoop " Snively II ( c . 1899 – April 15 , 1964 ) was an American football player and coach of lacrosse , football , and ice hockey . He played football for Princeton University from 1921 to 1923 and was captain of the 1923 team . He held coaching positions at Williams College in lacrosse , football and hockey from 1928 to 1948 and at the University of New Hampshire from 1953 to 1964 . Early years . Snively was a native of Waynesboro , Pennsylvania . He was the son of A . Barr Snively I ( c . 1869 – October 1944 ) , a prominent physician and surgeon in Waynesboro , and Mary Carlisle Snively . Snively played football at Waynesboro High School on a team that " The Daily News " ( Frederick , Maryland ) called " the best foot ball team ever representing the Waynesboro High School . " Snively served in the U . S . military during World War I . After leaving the military , Snively enrolled at Mercersburg Academy where he received varsity letters in five sports , graduating in 1919 . He subsequently attended Princeton University from which he graduated in 1924 . He played as a for the Princeton Tigers football team from 1921 to 1923 . Despite playing in the line , Snively became known as " the best forward - passer in the East . " In December 1922 , he was voted as the captain of the 1923 Princeton football team . Throughout his athletic career as a player and coach , Snively was known by the nickname " Whoop " ( sometimes " Whoops " ) . Coaching career . In 1925 , Snively became the head coach of the Rumford High School football team in Rumford , Maine . In 1928 , Snively became an assistant football coach , in charge of linemen , at Williams College , working under College Football Hall of Fame inductee Charlie Caldwell . In April 1929 , Snively was hired by Brown University as its line coach under head coach Tuss McLaughry . Snively also coached lacrosse at Brown . Snively returned to Williams College in 1932 . Over the next 11 years , he resumed his duties as line coach for the football team and also served as the head coach of the lacrosse and men ' s ice hockey teams . Snively took a leave of absence from Williams in 1942 to serve with the Red Cross in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II . Williams discontinued its football program during the war years from 1943 to 1945 . In March 1945 , Williams was hired as an assistant football coach at Dartmouth College under head coach Tuss McLaughry . Snively returned to Williams in September 1945 and resumed his posts as football line coach and head coach for the hockey and lacrosse team . In January 1946 , he became the head football coach at Williams ; he held that position for the 1946 and 1947 seasons . Snively noted that his greatest love in sports was ice hockey , and he coached the Williams College men ' s ice hockey team for 16 years . While at Williams , Snively also coached freshman teams and varsity lacrosse teams . In February 1948 , Snively was replaced by Len Watters as Williams ' head football coach , though he continued to serve thereafter as the school ' s lacrosse and hockey coach . In the fall of 1948 , Snively served as an assistant football coach at the University of Maine under head coach Eck Allen . From 1949 through the 1952 , Snively was the head football coach at Clarkson University . When Clarkson discontinued football in 1952 , Snively became the school ' s director of intramural athletics . In March 1953 , Snively was hired by the University of New Hampshire as the line coach for its football team and as the head coach for its lacrosse team . He held those positions for the next 12 years . His lacrosse teams at New Hampshire compiled and 84 - 43 record and won a national divisional championship and five New England divisional championships . He was also the men ' s ice hockey coach at New Hampshire from 1962 to 1964 . Death and posthumous honors . In April 1964 , Snively died of a heart attack while at a gas station in Durham , New Hampshire . He was survived by his wive , Eva ( Owen ) Snively ; a son , A . Barr Snively III , and a daughter , Virginia O . Snively . In December 1964 , the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association posthumously voted Snively its Coach of the Year award . Snively ' s lacrosse teams accumulated 116 victories , including his 85 - 47 record at New Hampshire . He had also coached lacrosse at Brown , Williams , Clarkson and Maine . In February 1965 , the University of New Hampshire dedicated Snively Arena , named after Coach Snively , to be used by the institution ' s hockey team and for other athletic events . The A . Barr " Whoop " Snively Scholarship Fund was established in 1966 . It provides scholarship support to a third - year student who has participated in hockey , lacrosse , or football .