Fred Bennion
American sports coach, athletics administrator (1884–1960)
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Fred W. Bennion (September 29, 1884 – January 18, 1960) was an American football player, coach of football, basketball and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the University of Utah from 1910 to 1913 and at the Agricultural College of the State of Montana—now Montana State University—from 1914 to 1917, compiling a career college football record of 27–15–8. Bennion was also the head basketball coach at Brigham Young University (BYU) from 1908 to 1910, at Utah from 1911 to 1914, and at Montana Agricultural from 1914 to 1919, amassing a career college basketball record of 96–31. In addition, He was the head baseball coach at BYU from 1909 to 1912, tallying a mark of 11–10.
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Bennion from the 1916 Montanan | |
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 24, 1884 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | January 18, 1960 (aged 75) Denver, Colorado, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1902 | Utah |
| 1904–1906 | Utah |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1910–1913 | Utah |
| 1914–1917 | Montana A&M / State |
| Basketball | |
| 1908–1910 | BYU |
| 1911–1914 | Utah |
| 1914–1919 | Montana A&M / State |
| Baseball | |
| 1909–1912 | BYU |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1914–1918 | Montana A&M / State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 27–15–8 (football) 96–31 (basketball) 11–10 (baseball) |
A native of Murray, Utah, Bennion was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Utah. He also studied agriculture at Montana State. Following his coaching career, he worked as an agricultural agent in Umatilla County, Oregon and Montana during the 1920s.[1] He was later the director of the Montana Taxpayers Association. From 1946 to 1955, Bennion served as the executive director of the Colorado Pueblo Expenditures Council in Denver. He died on January 18, 1960, at his home in Denver, following a short illness.[2]
Head coaching record
Football
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Utah Utes (Rocky Mountain Conference) (1910–1913) | |||||||||
| 1910 | Utah | 4–2 | 2–2 | T–3rd | |||||
| 1911 | Utah | 5–1–1 | 3–1–1 | T–2nd | |||||
| 1912 | Utah | 5–1–1 | 4–1 | 2nd | |||||
| 1913 | Utah | 2–4–1 | 1–2 | 5th | |||||
| Utah: | 16–8–3 | 0–6 | |||||||
| Montana A&M / Montana State Bobcats (Independent) (1914–1916) | |||||||||
| 1914 | Montana A&M | 5–1 | |||||||
| 1915 | Montana A&M | 4–2–1 | |||||||
| 1916 | Montana State | 2–2–2 | |||||||
| Montana State Bobcats (Rocky Mountain Conference) (1917) | |||||||||
| 1917 | Montana State | 0–2–2 | |||||||
| Montana A&M / State: | 11–7–5 | ||||||||
| Total: | 27–15–8 | ||||||||
