| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1882 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | March 15, 1954 (aged 71) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
International YMCA (BA, 1906) Pennsylvania (MA) |
| Coaching career ( HC unless noted) | |
| 1917 | Howard |
| Administrative career ( AD unless noted) | |
| 1917 | Howard |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 0–4 |
William Henry Jackson Beckett (1882 – March 15, 1954) was an American football coach.
Becket was the first African American person to ever be awarded a degree at Springfield College–then known as the International YMCA Training School–in Springfield, Massachusetts. [1] He was awarded the school's Tarbell Medallion in 1947. [2]
Beckett became the head football coach and first full-time athletic director at Howard University in Washington, D.C. in 1917. [3]
Beckett taught physical education at Sumner High School in St. Louis, Missouri for 35 years before retiring in 1954. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage on March 15, 1954, at Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis. [4]
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howard Bison ( Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1917) | |||||||||
| 1917 | Howard | 0–4 | 0–3 | 4th | |||||
| Howard: | 0–4 | 0–3 | |||||||
| Total: | 0–4 | ||||||||
- ^ "William Beckett Obituary in St. Lois Argus". digitalcommonwealth.org. March 13, 1954. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
- ^ "Tarbell Medallion Recipients". Springfield College. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
- ^ Logan, Rayford W. (1969). Howard University: the First Hundred Years, 1867-1967. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814702635. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
-
^
"William Beckett Funeral; Active In Negro Recreation".
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
St. Louis, Missouri. March 16, 1954. p. 19. Retrieved October 25, 2019 – via
Newspapers.com
.
- 1882 births
- 1954 deaths
- Howard Bison athletic directors
- Howard Bison football coaches
- Springfield College alumni
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- Sportspeople from Philadelphia
- African-American coaches of American football
- African-American college athletic directors in the United States
- African-American schoolteachers
- Schoolteachers from Missouri
- 20th-century African-American sportspeople
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1882 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | March 15, 1954 (aged 71) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
International YMCA (BA, 1906) Pennsylvania (MA) |
| Coaching career ( HC unless noted) | |
| 1917 | Howard |
| Administrative career ( AD unless noted) | |
| 1917 | Howard |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 0–4 |
William Henry Jackson Beckett (1882 – March 15, 1954) was an American football coach.
Becket was the first African American person to ever be awarded a degree at Springfield College–then known as the International YMCA Training School–in Springfield, Massachusetts. [1] He was awarded the school's Tarbell Medallion in 1947. [2]
Beckett became the head football coach and first full-time athletic director at Howard University in Washington, D.C. in 1917. [3]
Beckett taught physical education at Sumner High School in St. Louis, Missouri for 35 years before retiring in 1954. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage on March 15, 1954, at Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis. [4]
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howard Bison ( Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1917) | |||||||||
| 1917 | Howard | 0–4 | 0–3 | 4th | |||||
| Howard: | 0–4 | 0–3 | |||||||
| Total: | 0–4 | ||||||||
- ^ "William Beckett Obituary in St. Lois Argus". digitalcommonwealth.org. March 13, 1954. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
- ^ "Tarbell Medallion Recipients". Springfield College. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
- ^ Logan, Rayford W. (1969). Howard University: the First Hundred Years, 1867-1967. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814702635. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
-
^
"William Beckett Funeral; Active In Negro Recreation".
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
St. Louis, Missouri. March 16, 1954. p. 19. Retrieved October 25, 2019 – via
Newspapers.com
.
- 1882 births
- 1954 deaths
- Howard Bison athletic directors
- Howard Bison football coaches
- Springfield College alumni
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- Sportspeople from Philadelphia
- African-American coaches of American football
- African-American college athletic directors in the United States
- African-American schoolteachers
- Schoolteachers from Missouri
- 20th-century African-American sportspeople