Cecil L. Hartman

Cecil LeRoy "Sed" Hartman (May 13, 1900 – February 13, 1988) was an American college football player, coach of college football, college basketball and track and field, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Tabor College in Tabor, Iowa from 1925 to 1926, Cotner College in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1920, and the University of Omaha—now known as the University of Nebraska Omaha—from 1931 to 1942. He was also the head basketball coach at Omaha from 1931 to 1935, tallying a mark of 56–12.^[1] Hartman played college football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team from 1921 to 1923 and was a member of multiple Missouri Valley Conference championship teams.^[2]

Hartman served an officer in the United States Navy during World War II, reaching the rank of lieutenant commander before his discharge in 1945. He later worked in construction and real estate in Omaha, Nebraska. Hartman died in his sleep from apparent heart failure, on February 13, 1988, at the Paxton Manor in Omaha.^[3]