Biographical details | |
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Born | April 30, 1904 |
Died | July 2, 1987 Sun City, Arizona, U.S. | (aged 83)
Playing career | |
Football | |
1922–1925 | Ohio State |
Baseball | |
1923–1926 | Ohio State |
Position(s) | Lineman (football) Catcher (baseball) |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1927–1931 | Ohio Wesleyan (line) |
1932–1934 | Butler |
1935–1943 | Ohio State (assistant) |
Baseball | |
1930–1932 | Ohio Wesleyan |
1939–1944 | Ohio State |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 10–11–2 (football) 99–75 (baseball) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Football 1 IIC (1934) | |
Frederick C. "Fritz" Mackey (April 30, 1904 – July 2, 1987) was an American college football and college baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Butler University from 1932 to 1934, compiling a record of 10–11–2. Mackey was also the head baseball coach at Ohio Wesleyan University from 1930 to 1932,[1] and at his alma mater, Ohio State University, from 1939 to 1944, tallying a career college baseball coaching mark of 99–75.[2]
Mackey played football and baseball at Ohio State, before graduating in 1926. He was also an assistant football coach at Ohio State from 1935 to 1944 and a member of the staff for the national championship-winning 1942 Ohio State Buckeyes football team. After leaving coaching, Mackey worked for an actuary firm. He retired around 1970 to Sun City, Arizona, where he died in July 1987.[3]
Head coaching record
[edit]Football
[edit]Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Butler Bulldogs (Missouri Valley Conference) (1932–1933) | |||||||||
1932 | Butler | 2–4–1 | 0–0–1 | 3rd | |||||
1933 | Butler | 2–6 | 0–2 | 5th | |||||
Butler Bulldogs (Indiana Intercollegiate Conference) (1934) | |||||||||
1934 | Butler | 6–1–1 | 6–0–1 | 1st | |||||
Butler: | 10–11–2 | 6–2–2 | |||||||
Total: | 10–11–2 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth |
References
[edit]- ^ "Frederick Mackey" (PDF). Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops baseball. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
- ^ "Ohio State baseball". Salem News. April 24, 1944. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
- ^ "Ex-Butler coach dies". The Indianapolis Star. Indianapolis, Indiana. July 5, 1987. p. 7D. Retrieved March 17, 2019 – via Newspapers.com
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