Aaron Monroe "Mac" McCreary (September 15, 1892 – November 5, 1984) was an
American football
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,
basketball
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, and
baseball
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player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Tempe State Teachers College—known at Arizona State Teachers College by 1929 and now called
Arizona State University
Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public university, public research university in Tempe, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885 as Territorial Normal School by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, the university is o ...
—compiling a career
college football
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record of 25–17–4. McCreary was also the head basketball coach at Tempe/Arizona State Teachers from 1923 to 1930 and at Arizona State Teacher's College of Flagstaff—now known as
Northern Arizona University
Northern Arizona University (NAU) is a public research university based in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1899, it was the third and final university established in the Arizona Territory.
It is one of the three universities gove ...
—amassing a career
college basketball
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record of 140–149. In addition, he coached baseball at Tempe/Arizona State Teachers (1924–1926, 1928, 1930–1931) and at Arizona State Teacher's Flagstaff. McCreary also coached track,
skiing
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, and
boxing
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, and assisted in football at Arizona State Teacher's Flagstaff before retiring in 1963. He is a member of the Northern Arizona University Athletics Hall of Fame.
McCreary letter in baseball, basketball, and
track at
Turlock High School in
Turlock, California
Turlock is a city in Stanislaus County, California, United States. Its population was 72,740 at the 2020 United States census, making it the second-largest city in Stanislaus County after Modesto.
History
Founded on December 22, 1871, by pr ...
before graduating in 1913. He played football, basketball, and baseball at Arizona State, known as Tempe Normal College when he starred on the football team as a
back
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in 1914. He earned a teaching diploma in 1915 from Tempe Normal and then enrolled at Pennsylvania College–now known as
Gettysburg College
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—
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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. McCreary joined the
United States Army
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in 1917 and served overseas in
World War I
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. After the war, he attended the
University of Arizona
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and earned a bachelor of science degree in 1920.
McCreary died on November 5, 1984, in
Festus, Missouri
Festus is a city situated in Jefferson County, Missouri, United States, and is also a suburb of St. Louis. It had a population of 12,706 individuals as of the 2020 census.
Geography
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.
Head coaching record
Football
References
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1892 births
1984 deaths
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