Everett Sweeley
Sweeley cropped from 1900 Michigan Wolverines team photograph
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| Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 4, 1880 Adel, Iowa |
| Died | September 2, 1957 (aged 77) Twin Falls, Idaho |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1899–1902 | Michigan |
| Position(s) | Fullback, halfback, end, punter, kicker |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1903 | Morningside |
| 1904–1905 | Washington Agricultural / State |
| Basketball | |
| 1905–1907 | Washington State |
| Baseball | |
| 1905–1906 | Washington Agricultural / State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 11–9 (football) 10–9 (basketball) 20–12 (baseball) |
Everett Marlin Sweeley (March 4, 1880 – September 2, 1957) was an American football player and coach. He played fullback, halfback and end for the University of Michigan from 1899 to 1902 and was a member of Fielding H. Yost's 1901 and 1902 "Point-a-Minute" teams. He then served as the head football coach at Morningside College in 1903 and at Washington State University in 1904 and 1905. He also coached basketball and baseball at Washington State. After retiring from football, Sweeley became a lawyer and judge in Idaho.
Sweeley was born in Adel, Iowa in 1880. At the time of the 1885 Iowa State Census, Sweeley was living in Storm Lake, Iowa. He attended high school at Sioux City, Iowa.
Sweeley enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1899. He played four years of football at Michigan from 1899 to 1902 at the end, fullback, and halfback positions, but he was best known as one of the game's premier punters and placekickers.
Before enrolling at Michigan, Sweeley said he had never seen a college football game. In four seasons, he missed only one game, the result of what Sweeley called "a little row with a math professor."
While playing for Michigan, Sweeley set the college football record for the longest kick on record. In 1902, he kicked the football 86 yards before touching the ground. Sweeley also held "an enviable distinction unboasted by any other hero of the gridiron." In four years punting for Michigan, he never had a single punt blocked. Sweeley was known for punts that were both high and long. He would reportedly tell his ends accurately where each punt was to go, "and by this concerted action Michigan gained many yards." Sweeley was also "an expert place kicker," scoring over 100 points for Michigan in this manner. A 1906 newspaper feature reported that his greatest talent was "the running punt trick," a play in which Sweeley would run a ball "until he was hard pressed and then kick, often thus adding many yards to the ground gained."
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