James A. Baldwin (May 26, 1886 – August 2, 1964) was an
American football
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player,
track athlete, coach of football,
basketball
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, and
baseball
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, and college athletics administrator. A native of
Somerville, Massachusetts
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, Baldwin played on the football, baseball, and track teams at
Dartmouth College
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, from which he graduated in 1908.
Baldwin served as the head football coach at Rhode Island State College—now the
University of Rhode Island
The University of Rhode Island (URI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Kingston, Rhode Island, United States. It is the flagship public research as well as the land-grant university of Rhode Island. The univer ...
, the
University of Maine
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, Trinity College in
Durham, North Carolina
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—now
Duke University
Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...
,
Lehigh University
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, and
Wake Forest University
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, compiling a career
college football
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record of 43–37–16. Baldwin was also the head basketball coach at the same five schools, amassing a career
college basketball
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mark of 85–66. In addition, he served as the head baseball coach at Rhode Island State and at Lehigh, tallying a career
college baseball
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record of 32–25–1. From 1916 to 1919, Baldwin was the
athletic director
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at Rhode Island State while he coached three sports.
Death
Baldwin died on August 2, 1964, at a nursing home in
Hyannis, Massachusetts
Hyannis is the largest of the seven villages in the town of Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. It is the commercial and transportation hub of Cape Cod and was designated an urban area at the 1990 census. Because of this, many refer to Hya ...
.
Head coaching record
College football
College basketball
References
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1886 births
1964 deaths
American football halfbacks
American men's basketball coaches
American women's basketball coaches
Dartmouth Big Green baseball players
Dartmouth Big Green football players
Dartmouth Big Green men's track and field athletes
Duke Blue Devils football coaches
Duke Blue Devils men's basketball coaches
Lehigh Mountain Hawks baseball coaches
Lehigh Mountain Hawks football coaches
Lehigh Mountain Hawks men's basketball coaches
Maine Black Bears athletic directors
Maine Black Bears football coaches
Maine Black Bears men's basketball coaches
Maine Black Bears women's basketball coaches
Rhode Island Rams athletic directors
Rhode Island Rams football coaches
Rhode Island Rams men's basketball coaches
Wake Forest Demon Deacons football coaches
Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball coaches
College men's basketball head coaches in the United States
High school basketball coaches in Massachusetts
High school football coaches in Massachusetts
High school football coaches in New Jersey
Baseball players from Somerville, Massachusetts
Baseball players from Manchester, New Hampshire
Coaches of American football from Massachusetts
Players of American football from Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Baseball coaches from Massachusetts
Basketball coaches from Massachusetts
Track and field athletes from Massachusetts
20th-century American sportsmen