Trotter pictured in Southern Campus 1923, UCLA yearbook
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Sport(s) | Football, basketball, track and field |
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Biographical details | |
Born |
Kansas |
October 18, 1890
Died | December 28, 1954 Beverly Hills, California |
(aged 64)
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1920–1922 | UCLA |
1943–1944 | Willamette |
Basketball | |
1943–? | Willamette |
Track and field | |
1919–1946 | UCLA |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 7–16–1 (football) |
Harry Elbert "Cap" Trotter (October 18, 1890 – December 28, 1954) was an American football coach at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Willamette University. He was inducted into the Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame in 1989.
UCLA began to play in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) in 1920, and competed against Occidental College, California Institute of Technology, University of Redlands, Whittier College, and Pomona College. Coach Trotter's two wins were against Redlands and San Diego State University, which did not join the SCIAC until 1926.