Jack Faber
Faber at Maryland in 1928
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| Sport(s) | Football, lacrosse |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
January 13, 1903 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
| Died | January 14, 1994 (aged 91) Silver Spring, Maryland |
| Playing career | |
| Lacrosse | |
| 1926–1927 | Maryland |
| Position(s) | Attackman, Out Home |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Lacrosse | |
| 1928–1929 | Maryland |
| 1930–1963 | Maryland (co-HC) |
| Football | |
| 1933–1934 | Maryland (assistant) |
| 1935 | Maryland |
| 1940–1941 | Maryland (co-HC) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 249–57 (lacrosse) 12–13–4 (football) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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Lacrosse: 8 USILA National Championships (1928, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1955, 1956, 1959) 9 Atlantic Coast Conference Championships (1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1965) |
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| Awards | |
| 1 USILA Coach of the Year (1959) | |
John Edgar Faber, Jr. (January 13, 1903 – January 14, 1994) was an American microbiologist and college football and lacrosse coach at the University of Maryland. Faber served as the Maryland lacrosse coach from 1928 to 1963, during which time he compiled a 249–57 record and secured numerous national and conference championships. Faber was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1963. He coached the Maryland football team in 1935 and again, as a co-head coach alongside Al Heagy and Al Woods, from 1940 to 1941. He compiled a 12–13–4 record in football.
Faber was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on January 13, 1903, and attended Central High School in Washington, D.C. He then went on to college at the University of Maryland, where he played on the Maryland lacrosse team, earning letters in 1926 and 1927, and the basketball team, earning letters from 1924 to 1927. The United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) named Faber an honorable mention All-American as an inside attackman in 1926 and a third-team All-American at the out home position in 1927.
From the University of Maryland, Faber earned a B.S. in 1926, a M.S. in 1928, and a Ph.D. in bacteriology in 1937. In 1945, he was appointed the head of his alma mater's Department of Microbiology, a position he held for 18 years. During World War II, Faber joined the United States Army and served from 1942 to 1946, attaining the rank of major. He spent three years working at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
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