Ralph Waldo Sherwin (January 31, 1888 – May 17, 1963) 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 wit ...

player and coach. He played college football at

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, playing

left tackle Tackle is a playing position in gridiron football. Historically, in the one-platoon system prevalent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a tackle played on both offense and defense. In the modern system of specialized units, ...

. He served as the 14th head coach at the

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for a single season in 1911, compiling a record of 4–2–2. Sherwin was the head coach of the visiting team in the first American football homecoming game. He died on May 17, 1963, following a short illness, at his home in

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Head coaching record

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1888 births 1963 deaths American football tackles Dartmouth Big Green football players Kansas Jayhawks football coaches Sportspeople from Fitchburg, Massachusetts Players of American football from Massachusetts {{1910s-collegefootball-coach-stub