Nate Pulsifer

Last updated
Nate Pulsifier
Biographical details
Born1877 (1877)
Auburn, Maine, U.S.
Alma mater Bates
Playing career
Baseball
1897 Lewiston
1898 Hartford Cooperatives
1898 Lyons
1899Portland Phenoms
1900–1901Norfolk Skippers
1901Tarboro Tartars
1902–1904Concord Marines
1905 Sioux City Packers
1906–1907Haverhall Hustlers
1908Lynn Shoemakers
Position(s) First baseman, second baseman, shortstop
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1907 Dean
1908 Tufts
Basketball
1908–1909 Tufts

Nathan T. Pulsifier (born 1877) was a minor league baseball player and collegiate American football and basketball and coach. [1] He served as the head men's basketball coach at Tufts University from 1908 to 1909. [2] He served as the head football coach at Dean College in 1907 before accepting the same role at Tufts in 1908. [3]

Pulsifer was a graduate of Bates College and later studied at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [4]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Doggie Julian</span> American sports player and coach

Alvin Fred "Doggie" Julian was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He served as the head basketball coach at Muhlenberg College from 1936 to 1945, at the College of the Holy Cross from 1945 to 1948, and at Dartmouth College from 1950 to 1967, compiling a career college basketball record of 379–332. Julian led Holy Cross to the NCAA title in 1947. His team, which included later National Basketball Association (NBA) great Bob Cousy, almost repeated this feat in 1948, losing in the semifinals. Julian was engaged by the Boston Celtics of the NBA after his college success, but he recorded only a 47–81 mark before he was dismissed in 1950. Julian was also the head football coach at Schuylkill College from 1925 to 1928, Albright College from 1929 to 1930, and Mulhlenberg from 1936 to 1944, amassing a career college football record of 77–63–3. In addition, he served as Mulhlenberg's head baseball coach from 1942 to 1944, tallying a mark of 16–18. Julian was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach in 1968.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mysterious Walker</span> American athlete and coach (1884–1958)

Frederick Mitchell Walker, nicknamed "Mysterious", was an American athlete and coach. He was a three-sport athlete for the University of Chicago from 1904 to 1906 and played Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Brooklyn Superbas, Pittsburgh Rebels and Brooklyn Tip-Tops.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John R. Bender</span> American football player and athletics coach (1882–1928)

John Reinhold "Chief" Bender was an American football player and coach of football, basketball and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Black Hills State University (1905), Washington State University, Haskell Indian Nations University (1908–1909), St. Louis University (1910–1911), Kansas State University (1915), and the University of Tennessee (1916–1920), compiling a career record of 67–32–7. He is one of the few college football head coaches to have non-consecutive tenure at the same school. Bender was also the head basketball coach at Washington State (1907–1908) and Tennessee, and the head baseball coach at Washington State and Tennessee.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bill Fetzer</span> American athlete and coach (1884–1959)

William McKinnon Fetzer was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Davidson College (1915–1918), North Carolina State University (1919–1920), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1921–1925), compiling a career college football record of 61–28–7. His brother, Bob Fetzer, served as co-head football coach at the University of North Carolina and later became the first and longest serving Athletics Director for the university. Fetzer also was the head basketball coach at Davidson for two seasons, from 1916 to 1918, tallying a mark of 18–11. In addition, he coached baseball at Davidson (1915–1919), NC State (1920), and North Carolina (1921–1925), amassing a career college baseball record of 128–75–5.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thomas Dowler</span> American football and basketball coach (1908–1986)

Thomas Moran "Spook" Dowler was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach of football and basketball. He served as the head football coach at The College of William & Mary in 1935 and at the University of Akron in 1939 and 1940, compiling a career college football record of 10–13–5. Dowler also coached the William & Mary men's basketball team from 1934 to 1937 and the Akron Zips men's basketball team in 1939–40, tallying a career college basketball mark of 30–43. Dowler played football, basketball, and baseball at Colgate University. He played with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the National Football League (NFL) for two games in 1931.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dave Morey</span> American sportsman (1889-1986)

David Beale Morey was an American football and baseball player, coach of a number of sports, and college athletics administrator. He was an All-American football player for Dartmouth College in 1912 and a professional baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1913. Morey coached football and baseball at the Lowell Technological Institute, Middlebury College (1921–1924), Auburn University (1925–1927), Fordham University (1928), and Bates College (1929–1939). After leading small colleges to ties against college football powers Harvard and Yale, Morey was given the nickname, "David the Giant Killer" by Grantland Rice.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fred Crolius</span> American athlete and coach (1876–1960)

Frederick Joseph Crolius was an American football and baseball player and coach. He was the first player from Tufts University to play Major League Baseball. He was at Tufts in 1894, and at Dartmouth College, where he also played college football, from 1896 until 1899. He spent two years in majors with the Boston Beaneaters and the Pittsburgh Pirates. Crolius also played pro football with the independent Homestead Library & Athletic Club and the Pittsburgh Stars of the first National Football League. He later served as a coach of both sports after his playing career ended.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">James H. Horne</span> American football, basketball, baseball, and track and field coach, athletic director

James Howard Horne was an athletic director and coach of American football, basketball, baseball, and track and field at Indiana University between 1898 and 1905.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Billy Laval</span>

William Lawrence Laval was an American minor league baseball player, baseball manager, and college baseball, football, and basketball coach. He held head coaching positions at the University of South Carolina, Furman University, Emory and Henry College, and Newberry College. He is the only South Carolina football coach to have produced seven consecutive winning seasons. In 2009, The State called him "the greatest collegiate coach" in the history of South Carolina.

Rufus W. Gilbert was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Kalamazoo College, Bradley Polytechnic Institute—now known as Bradley University (1909–1911), and at Rose Polytechnic Institute—now known as Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Gilbert was also the head basketball coach at Rose Polytechnic from 1913 to 1921, tallying a mark of 39–67. His son, Louis, played college football at the University of Michigan from 1925 to 1927.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Art McLarney</span> American baseball player (1908-1984)

Arthur James McLarney was an American professional baseball player whose career spanned three seasons, one of which was spent in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the New York Giants (1932). Over his major league career, he compiled a .130 batting average with two runs scored, three hits, one double, and three run batted in (RBIs) in nine games played. Defensively, he played seven games at shortstop. McLarney also played two season in the minor leagues with the Class-A Williamsport Grays (1933), and the Double-A Seattle Indians (1933–34). In his two-year minor league career, he batted .255 with 126 hits, 18 doubles, two triples, and two home runs. McLarney played shortstop, second base, and first base over his career in the minors. After his playing career was over, McLarney coached college baseball, basketball, and football. During his playing career, he stood at 6 feet (180 cm) and weighed 168 pounds (76 kg). He was a switch-hitter who threw right-handed.

Ronald J. Torgalski is an American former college baseball and college basketball coach. He was most recently the head baseball coach for the University at Buffalo. During his nine seasons as coach of the Bulls, he has compiled an overall record of 182–296.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles C. Stroud</span> American sports coach (1870–1949)

Charles Crawford "Doc" Stroud was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator.

Joseph Norman Elliott was an American college football and college basketball coach, minor league baseball player, and otolaryngologist. Elliott served two seasons as the head basketball coach at Northwestern University, in 1917–18 and 1919–20, compiling a record of 10–11. He also coached freshmen football at Northwestern during that time. Elliott moved to Illinois Wesleyan University in 1930 as an assistant football coach and was the head football coach there from 1931 to 1934, tallying a mark of 19–11–4. Elliott attended Illinois Wesleyan, where he was captain of the basketball team in 1913–14 and 1915–16. He played baseball with the Bloomington Bloomers of the Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League in 1917. Elliott graduated from Northwestern University Medical School—now known as the Feinberg School of Medicine—in 1920. Elliott's sons, Bump Elliott and Pete Elliott, both played college football at the University of Michigan and went on to coaching careers.

William H. "Dutch" Hollander was American football, basketball, and baseball coach and minor league baseball player. He served as the head football coach at Saint Mary's College of California in 1920, compiling a record of 0–3. Hollander was the head basketball coach at Stetson University in Deland, Florida from 1915 to 1917 and the University of California, Berkeley from 1918 to 1920, amassing a career college basketball coaching record of 40–19. He was also the head baseball coach at Stetson from 1916 to 1917, tallying a mark of 21–10.

Loyal Kenneth Park Jr. was an American professional baseball player, college football and basketball coach, and college athletics administrator.

Verl A. "Jiggs" Westergard was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He served the head men's basketball coach at his alma mater, Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota in 1949. He later served as a line coach at Upsala College in East Orange, New Jersey and as a football, basketball and golf coach at Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, Texas until his retirement.

Lawrence Kelly "Bee" Lawler was an American football, basketball and baseball player and coach. He played college football at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis from 1911 to 1913, where he was also a baseball and basketball player.

Mark Heitman Almli was a minor league baseball player and collegiate American football, basketball and baseball coach. He served as the head men's basketball coach at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota from 1942 to 1957. He also served as the school's head football and baseball coach, with the St. Olaf's home baseball field being named in his honor.

Milford Ross "Cardy" Swartz was a minor league baseball player and an American football, college basketball and college baseball coach.

References

  1. "Nathan Pulsifier". Baseball-Reference. Retrieved July 10, 2018.
  2. "Men's Basketball Records". gotuftsjumbos.com. Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  3. The Delta Upsilon Quarterly, Volume 27. Delta Upsilon. 1908. Retrieved August 15, 2018.
  4. Bates Student, Volume 34. Tufts University. 1906. Retrieved August 15, 2018.