Wickiup 1923, Idaho State yearbook
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Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball |
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Biographical details | |
Born |
Elmira, New York |
February 19, 1878
Died | March 30, 1935 Moscow, Idaho |
(aged 57)
Playing career | |
Football | |
1898–1899 | Princeton |
1900 | Greensburg A. A. |
Position(s) | Quarterback |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1900 | Greensburg A. A. |
1901 | Dickinson |
1902 | Princeton (backs) |
1903–1905 | Texas |
1911–1916 | New Mexico |
1918 | Washington & Jefferson |
1919 | Idaho |
1920–1927 | Idaho Technical |
Basketball | |
1910–1917 | New Mexico |
1919–1920 | Idaho |
1926–1927 | Idaho Technical |
Baseball | |
1904–1906 | Texas |
1910–1917 | New Mexico |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1928–1929 | Idaho |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 61–53–6 (college football) 3–6–1 (pro football) 56–18 (college basketball) 69–44–2 (college baseball) |
Ralph Fielding "Hutch" Hutchinson (February 19, 1878 – March 30, 1935) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player. He served as the head football coach at Dickinson College (1901), the University of Texas at Austin (1903–1905), the University of New Mexico (1911–1916), Washington & Jefferson College (1918), the University of Idaho (1919), and the Idaho Technical Institute (now Idaho State University) (1920–1927), compiling a career college football record of 61–53–6. Hutchinson was also the head basketball coach at New Mexico (1910–1917), Idaho (1919–1920), and Idaho Technical (1926–1927), amassing a career college basketball record of 56–18, and the head baseball coach at Texas from 1904 to 1906 and at New Mexico from 1910 to 1917, tallying a career college baseball mark of 69–44–2.
Born in Elmira, New York, Hutchinson played varsity football and baseball and ran track at Princeton University. In football, he was a quarterback and later played the position as a player-coach for the Greensburg Athletic Association, an early professional football team out of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, in 1900.
Hutchison was the third head football coach for the Dickinson College Red Devils in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and he held that position for the 1901 season. His overall coaching record at Dickinson was 3–4. This ranks him 25th at Dickinson in terms of total wins and 15th at Dickinson in terms of winning percentage.