Richard E. Eustis was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

player and coach. He played college football for

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church and with the support of prominent residents of Middletown, the col ...

from 1911 to 1913 and served as the university's head football coach from 1914 to 1915. He also served as the head football coach at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

(NYU) in 1916.

Playing career

Eustis was the son of New York Public Service Commissioner John E. Eustis of New York City. Eustis enrolled at

, where he played football as a fullback and

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from 1911 to 1913. He was the captain of Wesleyan's 1913 football team. ''

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'' described Eustis as "the mainstay on esleyan'sfootball team for three years, playing full back and end with equal ability."

Coach career

In February 1914, while he was still a student, Eustis was hired as the new head football coach at Wesleyan. He served as Wesleyan's head football coach from 1914 to 1915 and compiled a record of 10–7–1. He graduated from Wesleyan in 1915. In 1916, Eustis was hired as the head football coach at

. In his only season as NYU's head coach, he compiled a record of 4–3–1. His brother Elmer T. Eustis was the assistant football coach on the 1914 NYU Violets team.

Head coaching record

References

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