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Louis Alonzo Young

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Name	Louis Alonzo Young
Alt Name	Lou Young
Gender	Male
Birth^[2]^[4]	19 Feb 1893	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Marriage		to Mary Mason Sweeney
Education`^?`	1915	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United StatesBS, Civil Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Occupation^[2]	From 1923 to 1929	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United StatesHead Coach, Football, University of Pennsylvania
Death^[2]^[3]^[4]	19 Jul 1948	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Burial^[4]		Atlantic City Cemetery, Pleasantville, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States

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University bulletin, Dad's Day, 1926

References

Our Town (Narberth, Pennsylvania)
18 Jan 1945.

Young To Receive Award of Merit

Louis A. Young, Councilman of Narberth and former head coach of football at the University of Pennsylvania, will be among eight prominent graduates of the University of Pennsylvania who will receive Alumni Awards of Merit from the University's General Alumni Society on Saturday, ...
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Lou Young, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
last accessed Jun 2016.

Louis Alonzo "Lou" Young (c. 1894 – July 19, 1948) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Pennsylvania from 1923 to 1929, compiling a record of 49–15–2. Young played college football at Penn from 1912 to 1914, captaining the team in 1913. He died at the age of 56 on July 19, 1948 in Philadelphia.
↑ Lou Young, Former Penn Coach, Dead [1], in Lewiston Morning Tribune
20 Jul 1948.

Philadelphia, July 19 - (AP) - Louis Alonzo (Lou) Young, coach of the University of Pennsylvania's 1925 Rose bowl team, died today after a brief illness. Young, whose Penn football teams from 1923 to 1929 won 49 games, lost 15 and tied two, succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage. His 1924 team, undefeated but tied once, lost to California 14 to 0 in the Rose bowl.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Grave Recorded, in Find A Grave.

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