Patrick "Patsy" Keefe (September 16, 1878 – September 10, 1941) was an American

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player, coach of

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and baseball, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at

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from 1910 to 1912, compiling a record of 2–16–2. Keefe was also the head baseball coach at the

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, tallying a mark of 8–4. Keefe played

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as a halfback. He later coached football for two seasons there and then in

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, in 1909. He was the

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from 1915 to 1917. Keefe was later an assistant football coach at

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under head coaches

Percy Wendell Percy Langdon "Bullet" Wendell (July 16, 1889 – March 13, 1932) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He played college football at Harvard University, where he was a three-time All-American from 1910 to 1912. We ...

and

Douglas Lawson Douglas Lawson (June 21, 1890 – January 12, 1969) was an American football player and coach. He was the head football coach at Williams College from 1925 to 1927. He also served as an assistant football coach at Columbia University and Brown ...

. In 1929, he was hired as the baseball coach at Clarkson College—now known as

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—in

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. He died on September 10, 1941, at Veteran's Hospital in

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Head coaching record

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