Dixon Foster
Biographical details | |
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Born | December 24, 1888 |
Died | May 6, 1973 | (aged 84)
Playing career | |
Football | |
1905–1908 | Hampden–Sydney |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1909–1910 | Greenbrier Military (WV) |
1912–1915 | Porter Military (SC) |
1916 | South Carolina (freshmen) |
1917 | South Carolina |
1919 | South Carolina |
Basketball | |
1916–1920 | South Carolina |
Baseball | |
1917–1920 | South Carolina |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1917 | South Carolina |
1919 | South Carolina |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 4–12–1 (college football) 26–31 (college basketball) |
William Dixon Foster (December 24, 1888 – May 6, 1973) was an American football, basketball and baseball coach.[1] He served as the head football coach (1917, 1919), head men's basketball coach (1916–1920) and head baseball coach (1917–1920) at the University of South Carolina.[2]
Foster was a graduate of Hampden–Sydney College in Hampden Sydney, Virginia.[3]
Head coaching record
[edit]Football
[edit]Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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South Carolina Gamecocks (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1917) | |||||||||
1917 | South Carolina | 3–5 | 2–3 | T–9th | |||||
South Carolina Gamecocks (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1919) | |||||||||
1919 | South Carolina | 1–7–1 | 0–4–1 | 20th | |||||
South Carolina: | 4–12–1 | 2–7–1 | |||||||
Total: | 4–12–1 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Dixon Foster". Sports-Reference College Basketball. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
- ^ "Garnet & Black". University of South Carolina. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
- ^ A General Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Hampden-Sydney College. Hampden–Sydney College. Retrieved March 24, 2019.