{"id":205,"date":"2012-01-07T05:41:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T05:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/?p=205"},"modified":"2013-03-19T19:04:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T19:04:21","slug":"did-you-know-this-about-owu-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/did-you-know-this-about-owu-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know This About OWU History?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two of the most renowned names in collegiate athletics, Fielding H. Yost and Lynn W. St. John,<\/strong> had their\u00a0beginnings with the OWU\u00a0athletic programs. Fielding H. Yost, revered in University of Michigan sports lore\u00a0as their football coach from 1901-1923 and 1925-1926 and later as Athletic Director from 1921 to 1940. But\u00a0did you know that his 1st football coaching job was in 1897 at OWU?<\/strong> Similarly, the name Lynn W. St.\u00a0John<\/strong> is revered by all Ohio State University fans as he coached their basketball program 1911-1919 and was\u00a0manager of the baseball team 1913-1928. He served as Athletic Director 1912-1947. But did you know that he\u00a0earlier coached football 1909-1911, as well as basketball and baseball from 1910-1912 at OWU?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also, <\/strong>what do you know about Branch Rickey at OWU?\u00a0<\/strong>After signing a professional baseball contract and\u00a0thus becoming ineligible to continue his collegiate playing career, Branch Rickey \u201804 becomes Ohio Wesleyan\u2019s\u00a0athletics director and baseball coach. During a baseball trip, Rickey\u2019s catcher, Charles Thomas, a black student\u00a0from Zanesville, Ohio, is denied lodging at a hotel in South Bend, Indiana. Rickey was able to convince the\u00a0hotel manager to allow Thomas to stay in his room as an unregistered guest, but the event was burned into his\u00a0memory and proved to be his inspiration in signing Jackie Robinson with the Brooklyn Dodgers over 40 years\u00a0later. In 1904, Rickey\u2019s baseball team wins 14 games, a school record that would stand for 81 years.<\/p>\n

About the same time,<\/strong> a young man by the name of George Gauthier<\/strong> was soon to come on the OWU\u00a0scene. He was the starting quarterback for Michigan State\u2019s football team in 1912 and 1913 and led the team to\u00a0upset victories over Ohio State in 1912 and Michigan in 1913. Years later, Gauthier described the victory over\u00a0Michigan as his first great thrill. He was head football coach in 1918, compiling a record of 4\u20133. The biggest\u00a0victory in his single season as head football coach was a 12-9 decision over Knute Rockne\u2019s Notre Dame team.\u00a0Gauthier later served as OWU football coach from 1921-1946, beating Michigan 17-7 in the first game in their\u00a0new stadium\u2026..and later lost to Ohio State in 1922 in their new stadium, losing 5-0. He also served as Athletic\u00a0Director for 34 years from 1921-1955.<\/p>\n

\"Branch<\/a>
\nBranch Rickey<\/p>\n

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\"Fielding<\/a>
\nFielding H. Yost<\/p>\n

\"George<\/a>
\nGeorge Gauthier<\/p>\n

\"Lynn<\/a>
\nLynn W. St. John<\/p>\n

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Two of the most renowned names in collegiate athletics, Fielding H. Yost and Lynn W. St. John, had their\u00a0beginnings with the OWU\u00a0athletic programs. Fielding H. Yost, revered in University of Michigan sports lore\u00a0as their football coach from 1901-1923 and 1925-1926 and later as Athletic Director from 1921 to 1940. But\u00a0did you know that his 1st […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","category-theta-data","tag-january-2012-theta-data","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}