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M. P. Randolph
Biographical details
BornSeptember 4, 1868
Frenchtown, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedAugust 25, 1926 (aged 57)
Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Playing career
1889Lehigh
1892Princeton
1893Columbia Athletic Club
1894Allegheny Athletic Association
1895–1898Duquesne Country & Athletic Club
PositionEnd
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1893Purdue
1893Columbia Athletic Club (co-coach)
Head coaching record
Overall4–0 (college)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1893)
Randolph at Princeton, 1892

Mervyn Paul Randolph (September 4, 1868 – August 25, 1926) was an American football player and coach. He served as head football coach at Purdue University for part of the 1893 season, helping the team toward an eventual conference championship. He had played at Princeton University in 1892, and later played for club and professional teams including the Allegheny Athletic Association and the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club.

Early life and college

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Randolph was born on September 4, 1868, in Frenchtown, New Jersey.[1] After schooling at Blair Academy, he enrolled at Lehigh University and as a freshman saw limited action on the football team.[1][2] In his sophomore year he transferred to Princeton,[1] where, as a senior in 1892, he played varsity football as an end.[3]

College coaching

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In 1893, D. M. Balliet, Randolph's former teammate at both Lehigh and Princeton,[2][3] was appointed head football coach at Purdue University, but returned to Princeton as a player before the season started.[4][5] Randolph arrived as Purdue's new head coach by September 25.[4] An introduction in the Lafayette Daily Courier stated that he came highly recommended by Princeton team captain Thomas Trenchard, and that "as a coacher he ranks very high, being an expert in all the new tactics."[6] Randolph stayed until November 6, when he departed for Washington, D.C. to join the football team of the Columbia Athletic Club.[7] During his tenure at Purdue, his team played and won the first four games of its eight-game season.[8] The 1893 Boilermakers finished with a 5–2–1 record and were champions of the Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association.

Record

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Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Purdue Boilermakers (Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1893)
1893 Purdue 4–0 3–0 1st
Purdue: 4–0 3–0
Total: 4–0
      National championship         Conference title         Conference division title or championship game berth

Club football

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With the Columbia Athletic Club, Randolph played end while sharing coaching duties with halfback Jake Camp.[9] He continued his football career in the Pittsburgh area, playing for the Allegheny Athletic Association in 1894[10] before spending the next four seasons with the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club.[11][12][13] In Randolph's final season with Duquesne in 1898, the team was openly professional.[14]

Later years

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While in Pittsburgh, Randolph worked as an electrical engineer for the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.[15] He went to New York in December 1898 for a position in the company's sales department.[16] By 1903, he had become manager of Westinghouse's Seattle office.[17] He later pursued engineering and mining ventures in the American West. During World War I, he entered service with the U.S. Army Ordnance Department, and in 1920, was commissioned in the Regular Army as major of ordnance. Following his discharge in 1922, he returned to the West, where he engaged in mining and raising cattle. He died in Las Vegas on August 25, 1926.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Davis, Parke H.; King, Philip; et al. (April 22, 1927). "Mervyn Paul Randolph '93". Obituary. Princeton Alumni Weekly. Vol. 27, no. 27.
  2. ^ a b "Foot-Ball – The Team, 1889". The Epitome (yearbook). Vol. 15. Lehigh University. 1891. p. 167.
  3. ^ a b Presbrey, Frank; Moffatt, James Hugh, eds. (1901). Athletics at Princeton: A History. New York: Frank Presbrey. p. 349.
  4. ^ a b "The West Side". Lafayette Daily Courier. Lafayette, Indiana. September 26, 1893. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Coming Foot-Ball". The Indianapolis News. November 29, 1893. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "A New Coacher". Lafayette Daily Courier. September 23, 1893. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Notes". The Weekly Journal. Lafayette, Indiana. November 10, 1893. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Harlan, Gerald E. (1957). "Season Records 1887 – 1898". Route of the Boilermakers or 70 Years of Football at 'Old Purdue'. p. 5.
  9. ^ "The Coming Game". The Evening Star. Washington, DC. November 25, 1893. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Ready for Play". Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. October 27, 1894. p. 2.
  11. ^ "Will Stay at Home". Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette. October 9, 1896. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Duquesnes' Snap Eleven from the Smoky City Plays a Lively Game". The Detroit Free Press. October 24, 1897. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Braddock Gained Five Yards". The Pittsburg Post. November 3, 1898. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Duquesne Football Eleven May Be Suspended To-day". In the Football World. The Sun. New York. October 19, 1898. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Church History". The Jeffersonian. West Chester, Pennsylvania. September 18, 1897. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Late Sporting News". The Pittsburg Press. December 5, 1898. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ Men of the Pacific Coast. Pacific Art Company. 1903. p. 542.