Katy Easterday Roy Alexander " Katy " Easterday ( June 29 , 1894 – May 26 , 1976 ) was an American football and basketball player , track and field athlete , coach , college athletics administrator , and dentist . He played at the halfback position for the Pittsburgh Panthers football teams from 1917 to 1918 and was selected as an All - American in 1918 . Easterday served as the head football coach at Simmons College — now Hardin – Simmons University — from 1919 to 1920 , at Bethany College in Bethany , West Virginia from 1922 to 1923 , and at Waynesburg University from 1925 to 1927 , compiling a career college football record of 33 – 24 – 8 . Early life and playing career . Easterday was born in Lisbon , Ohio . He was an all - state basketball player and held the state record in the pole vault . Before enrolling in college , Easterday also played on sandlot and hometown teams from Ambridge , Salem , Beaver Falls and other western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio teams . In 1913 , Easterday enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh . When he announced that he wanted to play football for " Pop " Warner , his comments initially " invoked some chuckles from officials there . " Easterday made the team as a halfback and scatback . He played on Pitt teams that ran up a 33 - game winning streak before losing to Syracuse by a score of 24 – 3 in 1919 . As a senior in 1918 , Easterday was selected as a first - team All - American by Tom Thorpe , sports editor of " The New York Times " , and Robert " Tiny " Maxwell , sports editor of " The Philadelphia Inquirer " . Walter Camp praised Easterday as “ one of the finest forward pass snaggers Camp had ever seen . ” Pitt ' s undefeated 1917 team was known as " The Fighting Dentists " because on occasion every position was filled by dental students . The dental students on the 1917 team included Easterday , Skip Gougler , " Tank " McLaren , " Jake " Stahl . and Jock Sutherland . Easterday also ran track at Pitt and played for the university ' s basketball teams , serving as the team captain in 1917 . Coaching career . Easterday graduated from Pitt in 1919 with a degree in dentistry . He passed his state dentistry examination but opted to pursue a career in coaching . After graduating , Easterday became the athletic director and head coach of all sports at Hardin – Simmons College , a private Baptist college in Abilene , Texas . In three years at Hardin – Simmons , Easterday coached two conference basketball championships and a conference baseball championship . He also coached three pitchers who went on to play Major League Baseball : Jesse " T - Bone " Winters , John " Lefty " Middleton , and Lefty Ward . He also coached for four years each at Bethany College in Bethany , West Virginia . From 1924 to 1928 , Easterday was the athletic director at Waynesburg College . Waynesburg later played in the first televised football game in 1939 . He was inducted into Waynesburg ’ s Yellow - Jacket Sports Hall of Fame in 1971 . Easterday coached all sports at Waynesburg , including football , basketball and track in the mid - 1920s . From 1929 to 1933 , Easterday coached football and basketball at Kittanning High School , located 44 miles ( 71 km ) northeast of Pittsburgh . He coached the Kittanning Wildcats to their first undefeated , untied season in which they allowed only 12 points scored against them the entire year . Later life and family . Easterday also practiced as a dentist in Kittanning , Pennsylvania in the 1930s , and worked for a couple of years with the National Youth Association . From 1937 to 1942 , he worked for Allegheny Ludlum Steel and from 1942 to 1959 , Easterday was a safety supervisor at the Pullman - Standard Company in Butler , Pennsylvania . He was also one of the organizers of the Butler County Safety Council . After retiring from Pullman - Standard , Easterday moved to Odessa , Texas . Easterday had begun his coaching career at Hardin - Simmons College near Odessa and met his wife there . In 1968 , he was named " Elk of the Year " by the Elks lodge at Odessa . Easterday was married to Myrtle Christian , and the couple had a daughter .