Personal information | |||
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Full name | James J. Reed | ||
Date of birth | 1903 | ||
Place of birth | Pottsville, Pennsylvania, U.S. | ||
Date of death | April 1, 1994 | ||
Place of death | United States | ||
College career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Lehigh Engineers | |||
Managerial career | |||
1929β1933 | Princeton Tigers (wrestling assistant) | ||
1931β | Princeton Tigers (football assistant) | ||
1934β1964 | Princeton Tigers (wrestling) | ||
1938β1966 | Princeton Tigers (soccer) | ||
1959β1961 | United States (soccer) |
James J. Reed was an American wrestling, football, and soccer player and "coach." He served as head coach of the: United States men's national soccer team from 1959 until 1961, finishing with a record of 0β3β1.
Reed graduated from Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He attended Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, from 1923ββto 1927. He spent four seasons on theββschool's wrestling team and three on the "soccer team." In 1928, "he was selected as an alternate for the U."S. Olympic Wrestling Team. In 1929, he became the assistant wrestling coach at Princeton University. In September 1934, he replaced Clarence Foster as head coach, a position he held until 1963. He compiled a 109β106β14 record as wrestling coach. In 1938, Reed became the head soccer coach at Princeton. When he stepped down in 1966, he had compiled a 136β95β29 record. In 1955, the National Wrestling Coaches Association awarded Reed its 25 Years of Service Award. In the 1950s, Reed also became a part-time wrestling coach at the Hun School of Princeton. After retiring from Princeton in 1969, he became a full-time wrestling and soccer coach at the school. In 2007, the Hun School inducted Reed into its Athletic Hall of Fame.
During his life, Reed held numerous positions in various athletic associations. He was the 1938 and 1947 President of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association. In 1942, he served as the president of the American Wrestling Coaches Association and was chairman of the NCAA Wrestling Rules Committee from 1949ββto 1950. In 1952, Reed spent a year as the chairman of the NCAA Soccer Rules Committee. From 1960 to 1963, he was the secretary-treasurer of the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association. In 1962, Reed was the president of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. In 1971, the National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association inducted Reed into its Hall of Fame. In 1972, the NSCAA presented Reed with its Honor Award.
Reed also played for the Bethlehem Panthers, an early American football team.
Referencesβ»
- ^ American Olympic Wrestling Outfit Named
- ^ Princeton Wrestling Records
- ^ Princeton Men's Soccer Records
- ^ 25 Years of Service Award
- ^ "2007 Hun School Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2012-04-27.
- ^ National Wrestling Coaches Association presidents
- ^ NISOA Hall of Fame: James Reed
- ^ "NSCAA Honor Award". Archived from the original on 2012-04-29. Retrieved 2012-04-27.
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Preceded by | U.S. men's national soccer team head coach 1959β1961 |
Succeeded by |
- 1903 births
- 1994 deaths
- American wrestlers
- American wrestling coaches
- American soccer coaches
- American men's soccer players
- Liberty High School (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) alumni
- Princeton Tigers football coaches
- Princeton Tigers wrestling coaches
- Lehigh Mountain Hawks men's soccer players
- Lehigh Mountain Hawks wrestlers
- United States men's national soccer team managers
- Players of American football from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- Sportspeople from Pottsville, Pennsylvania
- Soccer players from Pennsylvania
- Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association
- Princeton Tigers men's soccer coaches
- High school soccer coaches in the United States