Chester J. Roberts
| Sport(s) | Football, basketball |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born | Birnamwood, Wisconsin |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1909–1911 | Lawrence |
| Position(s) | Center |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1912 | Simpson (assistant) |
| 1914 | Bethany (WV) |
| 1915 | Miami (OH) |
| 1917 | Platteville Normal |
| Basketball | |
| 1914–1915 | Bethany (WV) |
| 1915–1916 | Miami (OH) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 11–10 (football) 9–18 (basketball) |
Chester Joseph Roberts was an American football player and coach of football and basketball in the early 1900s. He was a 1912 graduate of Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin where he played football. After graduation, he served as a member of the faculty at several colleges in the Midwest. During this time Roberts served as head football coach at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia (1914), Miami University in Oxford, Ohio (1915), and Platteville Normal College, now the University of Wisconsin–Platteville (1917), compiling a career college football record of 11–10. He was also the head basketball coach at Bethany (1914–1915) and Miami (1915–1916), tallying a career college basketball mark of 9–18.
Roberts was born in Birnamwood, Wisconsin. He attended Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin from 1908 to 1912 where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. He did post graduate work at both University of Wisconsin and the University of Illinois, receiving a master's degree from Wisconsin. In 1913 he married Bessie Bushey of Appleton.
Roberts was an All-State center for two years at Lawrence under coach Mark Catlin. In his last year at Lawrence he was part of the 1911 team that won the State Championship. This team's only loss was to Wisconsin by a score of 15–0. In the rest of the games they outscored their other opponents 100–0. In 1911 Roberts was named to the all-time Lawrence College football team by the local newspaper, the Appleton Evening Crescent.
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