caption death_date death_place coach_years birth_place overall_record coach_team coach_sport cfbdwid sport birth_date image article_title name
twitchell 1923 '' , byu yearbook -lrb- left -rrb- pictured in '' the banyan 10 may 1955 pueblo , colorado 1922 1930 -- 1924 1941 1920 -- 1925 1926 -- beaver , utah 5 100 -- 51 -lrb- college basketball -rrb- -- 13 -- 1 -lrb- college football -rrb- byu college pueblo centennial hs -lrb- co -rrb- byu colorado football basketball 2370 football , basketball 13 may 1892 alvin twitchell.jpg alvin twitchell
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alvin twitchell

alvin greenwood twitchell -lrb- may 13 , 1892 -- may 10 , 1955 -rrb- was an american football and basketball coach .
he was the first head football coach at brigham young university -lrb- byu -rrb- , serving from 1922 to 1924 and compiling a record of 5 -- 13 -- 1 .
twitchell was also the head basketball coach at byu from 1920 to 1925 and at colorado college from 1926 to 1930 , amassing a career college basketball mark of 100 -- 51 .
twitchell started his football coaching tenure at byu in 1922 with a game against utah agricultural in logan , utah .
byu lost the game 41 -- 3 .
twitchell finished the year with a record of 1 -- 5 with the only win coming against the wyoming .
his career record at byu was 5 -- 13 -- 1 .
