player_team coach_years birth_place overall_record player_years coach_team coach_sport cfbdwid sport birth_date player_sport article_title name
penn washington & jefferson 1909 1911 1916 -- 1917 1919 1916 -- 1917 new jersey 18 -- 5 -lrb- basketball -rrb- -- 18 -- 3 -lrb- football -rrb- 3 1905 ? howard -lrb- al -rrb- nyu howard -lrb- al -rrb- -lrb- al -rrb- howard -lrb- al -rrb- howard football basketball 3469 football , baseketball 1883 football john longwell
 john longwell
john longwell

john burt longwell -lrb- 1883 -- ? -rrb-
was an american football player , coach of football and basketball , and dentist .
he served as the head football coach at howard college -- now samford university -- in birmingham , alabama during the 1909 , 1911 , 1916 and 1917 seasons and at new york university -lrb- nyu -rrb- in 1919 , compiling a career college football record of 18 -- 18 -- 3 .
longwell was also the head basketball coach at howard during the 1916 -- 17 season , tallying a mark of 3 -- 5 .
longwell took over the howard football program from interim coach winton m. blount , sr. in 1909 .
his first team went 5 -- 2 -- 1 and outscored opponents 82 to 30 over eight games .
james c. donnelly coached the next season .
when longwell returned the following season , the 1 -- 6 -- 1 1911 bulldogs only managed six points to their opponents ' 158 in an eight-game season .
b. l. noojin coached the next three seasons , succeeded by eugene caton in 1915 .
longwell returned in 1916 and guided the bulldogs to a 6 -- 4 record -lrb- 146 points scored to 92 points against -rrb- .
he coached the first five games of the next season before resigning .
bill streit completed the 3 -- 3 -- 1 season .
his overall record with the bulldogs was 14 -- 14 -- 3 in 31 games .
longwell 's bulldogs averaged 8.74 points per game .
longwell was a graduate in medicine at the university of pennsylvania , class of 1909 .
he later worked as a dentist in new york .
