E. J. Stewart
Stewart from 1917 Cornhusker
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| Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball, track & field |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
January 26, 1877 Cleveland, Ohio |
| Died | November 18, 1929 (aged 52) near Kerrville, Texas |
| Playing career | |
| 1903–1906 | Massillon Tigers |
| Position(s) | Quarterback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1903–1905 | Massillon Tigers |
| 1907 | Mount Union |
| 1909–1910 | Allegheny |
| 1913–1915 | Oregon Agricultural |
| 1916–1917 | Nebraska |
| 1921–1922 | Clemson |
| 1923–1926 | Texas |
| 1927–1928 | Texas Mines |
| Basketball | |
| 1907–1908 | Mount Union |
| 1908–1909 | Purdue |
| 1909–1912 | Allegheny |
| 1911–1916 | Oregon Agricultural |
| 1917–1919 | Nebraska |
| 1921–1923 | Clemson |
| 1923–1926 | Texas |
| 1927–1928 | Texas Mines |
| Baseball | |
| 1912 | Oregon Agricultural |
| 1921 | Clemson (assistant) |
| Track & field | |
| 1921–1923 | Clemson |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 75–41–15 (college football) 251–125 (basketball) 5–9 (baseball) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Football 2 MVIAA (1916–1917) |
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Edward James "Doc" Stewart (January 26, 1877 – November 18, 1929) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He was also the founder, and player-coach of the Massillon Tigers professional football team.
Stewart was the son of a Methodist minister and had played football and basketball at Mount Union College, located in Alliance, Ohio. He had attended medical school at Case Western Reserve University, located in Cleveland, where he played on the baseball team.
In the early 1900s, Stewart organized a pro football team in Massillon, Ohio called the Massillon Tigers. Ed, a young and ambitious editor of the city newspaper The Evening Independent, was named as the team's first coach. At this time, Massillon was involved in a rivalry with the cross-county, Canton Bulldogs. Both teams spent lavish amounts of money to bring in ringers from out of town. Prior to the 1906 season, a news story in The Plain Dealer alleged that the Bulldogs were financially broke and could not pay its players for that final game. Many Canton followers believed the story had originated in Massillon as a trick to discredit their team and make it tougher for Canton to recruit players for 1906. Since Stewart had newspaper connections, he was believed by Canton to have planted the story.
The Tigers had won every "Ohio League" championship from 1902 to 1906. In 1906, Stewart was promoted from coach to the Tigers' manager. Sherburn Wightman, who was coached by Amos Alonzo Stagg, was named the team's new coach.
In 1906, Stewart was a figure in a betting scandal between the two clubs. The Canton Bulldogs-Massillon Tigers Betting Scandal was the first major scandal in professional football. It was also the first known case of professional gamblers attempting to fix a professional sport. The scandal began with an allegation made by a Massillon newspaper charging the Bulldogs' coach, Blondy Wallace, and Tigers end, Walter East, with conspiring to fix a two-game championship series between the two clubs. When the Tigers won the second and final game of the series and were named pro football's champions, Wallace was accused of throwing the game for Canton.
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