Katy Easterday
Easterday pictured in The Bronco 1920, Simmons yearbook
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| Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball, track and field |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
June 29, 1894 Lisbon, Ohio |
| Died | May 26, 1976 (aged 81) Odessa, Texas |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1917–1918 | Pittsburgh |
| Basketball | |
| 1916–1918 | Pittsburgh |
| Position(s) | Halfback (football) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1919–1920 | Simmons (TX) |
| 1921 | Bethany (WV) (assistant) |
| 1922–1923 | Bethany (WV) |
| 1925–1927 | Waynesburg |
| Basketball | |
| 1920–1921 | Simmons (TX) |
| 1921–1924 | Bethany (WV) |
| 1924–1928 | Waynesburg |
| Baseball | |
| 1920 | Simmons (TX) |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1919–1921 | Simmons (TX) |
| 1924–1928 | Waynesburg |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 33–24–8 (college football) 83–69 (college basketball) 13–7 (baseball) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Awards | |
| All-American, 1918 | |
Roy Alexander "Katy" Easterday (June 29, 1894 – May 26, 1976) was an American football and basketball player, track and field athlete, coach, college athletics administrator, and dentist. He played at the halfback position for the Pittsburgh Panthers football teams from 1917 to 1918 and was selected as an All-American in 1918. Easterday served as the head football coach at Simmons College—now Hardin–Simmons University—from 1919 to 1920, at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia from 1922 to 1923, and at Waynesburg University from 1925 to 1927, compiling a career college football record of 33–24–8.
Easterday was born in Lisbon, Ohio. He was an all-state basketball player and held the state record in the pole vault. Before enrolling in college, Easterday also played on sandlot and hometown teams from Ambridge, Salem, Beaver Falls and other western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio teams.
In 1913, Easterday enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh. When he announced that he wanted to play football for "Pop" Warner, his comments initially "invoked some chuckles from officials there." Easterday made the team as a halfback and scatback. He played on Pitt teams that ran up a 33-game winning streak before losing to Syracuse by a score of 24–3 in 1919. As a senior in 1918, Easterday was selected as a first-team All-American by Tom Thorpe, sports editor of The New York Times, and Robert "Tiny" Maxwell, sports editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer.Walter Camp praised Easterday as “one of the finest forward pass snaggers Camp had ever seen.”
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