Harvey Emery
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Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.
New Jersey, U.S.
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| Born | June 25, 1902 Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | February 1979 (aged 76) New Jersey, U.S. |
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Harvey Charles Emery (June 25, 1902 – February 1979) was an athlete, American football coach, and banker. He was a three-sport athlete at Princeton University in the early 1920s and serves as an assistant athletic director and assistant football coach at the University of Michigan in the 1920s and 1930s. He later had a career in banking, serving as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the First Trenton National Bank in Trenton, New Jersey.
Emery was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, and grew up in Manhattan, New York City. His father was the superintendent of the Marine Division of the Lackawanna Railroad.[1] Emery attended preparatory school at Exeter in New Hampshire.[1]
Princeton
While attending Princeton University, he was a member of the football, track and wrestling teams. He played at the tackle position for the football team and competed in the hammer throw and discus events. He was also chosen as the captain of the track and wrestling teams, president of Princeton's Class of 1924, Chairman of the Senior Council, and president of the Philadelphia Society and the campus Y.M.C.A.[1][2][3] Upon graduating from Princeton in 1924, Emery was also selected by his classmates as the "best all-around man," the "most respected," the "best all-around athlete," the "most popular," and the "busiest."[4] Sports writer Lawrence Perry described him as "one of the highest type of college athlete, mentally, physically, and morally who has ever come out of a college."[5]