Lyle Bennett (June 23, 1903 – March 24, 2005)LYLE BENNETT (1903-2005), Social Security Death Index
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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 wit ...

and

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coach. He served as the head football coach at

Central Michigan University Central Michigan University (CMU) is a public research university in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. Established in 1892 as the Central Michigan Normal School and Business Institute, the private normal school became a state institution and renamed Cen ...

program from 1947 to 1949, compiling a record of 8–15–1. Bennett was also the head track coach at Central Michigan from 1947 to 1970. He attended Central Michigan where he played football and

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding ...

, and ran track. He also coached at

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, Rockford High School, and Hastings High School in Michigan. The outdoor track at Central Michigan University is named for Bennett.

Head coaching record

Football

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