Amos Foster Amos Parker Foster ( March 10 , 1880 – August 7 , 1952 ) was an American football and basketball player and coach in the early 1900s . He was a 1904 graduate of Dartmouth College where he lettered in both basketball and football . Foster served as the head football coach at the University of Cincinnati ( 1904 – 1905 ) , the University of Nebraska ( 1906 ) , and Miami University ( 1907 – 1908 ) , compiling a career college football mark of 30 – 9 . He was also the head basketball coach at Cincinnati for five seasons from 1904 to 1909 , tallying a mark of 30 – 10 . After coaching he practiced law in Ohio . Early life . Foster was born on March 10 , 1880 in Keene , New Hampshire . He graduated from Cushing Academy in 1899 , where he had played on several athletic teams . He spent the next year doing college preparatory work at Cushing and was a member of the graduate basketball team , which was named All - New England champion after winning in a tournament of 35 top teams . Playing career . Foster lettered in football in 1902 and 1903 for Dartmouth . He helped the 1903 team coached by Fred Folsom to a 9 – 1 record including the school ' s first - ever win over Harvard . Many of the Eastern writers named him to their All - American team for his success his last year at fullback . Foster was also a three - year letter winner for Dartmouth in basketball , lettering in 1901 , 1902 and 1903 . During the 1902 – 03 season he served as team captain and led them to a 7 – 9 record . Coaching career . Foster started his coaching career while still at Dartmouth , when he took a job as head basketball coach at the Bradford Academy . He held this position for two seasons . Cincinnati . Foster was head coach for the Cincinnati Bearcats in both football and basketball . He coached the Cincinnati football team for two seasons 1904 and 1905 . In his two years as the Bearcat ' s head coach , he compiled an overall record of 11 – 4 . Foster ' s most successful year at Cincinnati was in 1904 where he led the Bearcats to a 7 – 1 record . This team scored 182 points during the season and only gave up 10 . Their seven wins included shutout victories over Kentucky , Tennessee , and traditional rival Miami . Foster added a 4 – 3 mark in 1905 before taking over the head coaching job at the University of Nebraska for the 1906 season . Foster was also the head coach of the basketball squad at Cincinnati from 1904 to 1909 . In his five seasons as Bearcats ' head coach he compiled an overall record of 30 – 10 . His most successful season was in 1908 where he led the Bearcats to a 9 – 0 record and an Ohio Collegiate Championship . Even though Foster left Cincinnati to coach football at other schools , he still coached the Bearcats basketball team . Nebraska . Foster replaced Walter C . Booth as head coach of the Nebraska football team for the 1906 season . He spent just one season as coach of the Cornhuskers , leading them to a 6 – 4 record . He was able to beat his former school , Cincinnati , by a score of 41 – 0 . Miami . Foster was head football coach at Miami University in Oxford , Ohio for the 1907 and 1908 seasons . The 1908 team outscored their opponents 113 – 10 and went 7 – 0 . He left Miami with a record of 13 – 1 . His career winning percentage of . 939 is the highest in Miami history ahead of College Football Hall of Fame coaches George Little , Ara Parseghian , Sid Gillman , Woody Hayes , and Bo Schembechler .