Glaze in 1908
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Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball, track |
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Biographical details | |
Born |
Denver, Colorado |
March 13, 1882
Died | October 31, 1968 Atascadero, California |
(aged 86)
Playing career | |
Football | |
1901 | Colorado |
1903–1905 | Dartmouth |
Baseball | |
1903–1906 | Dartmouth |
1906–1908 | Boston Americans / Red Sox |
1908 | Providence Grays |
1909–1910 | Indianapolis Indians |
1913 | Beaumont Oilers |
1914 | Topeka Jayhawks |
Position(s) |
End (football) Pitcher (baseball) |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1908–1909 | Rochester (NY) |
1910–1912 | Baylor |
1914–1915 | USC |
1916 | Drake |
1917–1918 | Colorado State Teachers |
1919–1920 | Colorado Mines |
1921–1923 | Lake Forest |
Basketball | |
1910–1913 | Baylor |
1914–1916 | USC |
1916–1917 | Drake |
1917–1919 | Colorado State Teachers |
1921–1924 | Lake Forest |
Baseball | |
1910–1913 | Baylor |
1913 | Beaumont Oilers |
1915 | USC |
1922 | Colorado Mines |
Track | |
1915 | USC |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 44–60–12 (football) 58–80 (basketball) 67–43 (baseball) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Awards | |
Football All-American, 1904 All-American, 1905 |
Ralph Glaze | |||
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Pitcher | |||
Born: Denver, Colorado |
March 13, 1881|||
Died: October 31, 1968 Atascadero, California |
(aged 87)|||
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MLB debut | |||
June 1, 1906, for the Boston Americans | |||
Last MLB appearance | |||
June 15, 1908, for the Boston Red Sox | |||
MLB statistics | |||
Win–loss record | 15–21 | ||
Earned run average | 2.89 | ||
Strikeouts | 137 | ||
Teams | |||
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Daniel Ralph Glaze (March 13, 1882 – October 31, 1968) was an American athlete and coach who played as a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, and later became a football and baseball coach and administrator at several colleges.
Glaze was born in Denver, Colorado, and was recruited by Dartmouth College after displaying his skill in two sports. He played football at the University of Colorado in the 1901 season under coach Fred Folsom, a Dartmouth alumnus who became that school's coach in 1903. Glaze enrolled at Dartmouth in 1902, being followed there by his younger brother, John. Under Folsom, he played a notable role in the school's first-ever football victory over Harvard in 1903, a game in which Harvard dedicated its new stadium. In 1905, Glaze was named an All-American as an end by Walter Camp, even though at 5'8" and 153 pounds he was the smallest player on Dartmouth's team that year. Glaze also played baseball at Dartmouth, and pitched a no-hitter against Columbia.
During summers, Glaze played semi-pro ball in Colorado, using the assumed name "Ralph Pearce" to protect his college eligibility. Among the Colorado teams Glaze played for was the "Big Six" team in Trinidad, where he pitched in 1905. In 1905 he met an opposing catcher named John Tortes, a Native American, and encouraged him to apply to Dartmouth due to the school's charter making specific provisions for the education of Native Americans. As Tortes had dropped out of school, several Dartmouth alumni conspired to create a false background for him, and he enrolled until the ruse was discovered some time after his first semester. Nonetheless, the catcher attracted notice from various baseball figures, and he went on to a 9-year major league career from 1909 to 1917 under the name Chief Meyers; he maintained a strong affinity to Dartmouth, and credited Glaze with his start in the sport.