David F. Weeks

American football player and coach
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAmerican football player and coach
PlacesUnited States of America
wasSports coach American football player
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth31 July 1874, Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Death15 March 1929Skillman, Montgomery Township, Somerset County, USA (aged 54 years)
Star signLeo
The details

Biography

David Fairchild Weeks (July 31, 1874 – March 15, 1929) was an American football player, coach, and doctor. He was the first head football coach at Massachusetts Agricultural College—now the University of Massachusetts Amherst, holding the position for one season, in 1898, and compiling a record of 1–4–1. Weeks graduated in 1897 from the University of Pennsylvania and played quarterback for the Penn Quakers football team.

Weeks was born in 1874 to Henry Martin Weeks, a doctor, and Mary Malvina Fairchild Weeks. He married Maude Adele Clampitt in Pennsylvania in 1902.

Weeks later practiced medicine after his graduation from Penn, briefly in Pennsylvania and his home state of New Jersey. Weeks also was involved in the research of nervous system and mental illnesses, (primarily epilepsy) also serving as Superintendent and Medical Director of the New Jersey State Village for Epileptics at Skillman, New Jersey from December 1907 until his sudden death from heart disease in 1929.

He is buried in Blawenburg Reformed Church Cemetery in Somerset County, New Jersey.

Head coaching record

YearTeamOverallConferenceStandingBowl/playoffs
Massachusetts Aggies (Independent)
1898Massachusetts1–4–1
Massachusetts:1–4–1
Total:1–4–1
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