Charles Otis Bemies (March 19, 1867 – August 10, 1948) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and Presbyterian minister. He became acquainted with James Naismith while studying at Springfield College (then known as the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School) in the late 1880s. While serving as the athletic director at Geneva College, he organized the first college basketball team in 1892. He graduated from the Western Theological Seminary and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1897. From 1899 to 1901, he served as the first basketball and second football coach at Michigan Agricultural College (now known as Michigan State University). After retiring from coaching, Bemies served for many years as a Presbyterian minister and evangelist in rural Pennsylvania. He was also active with YMCA, serving with that organization in Russia in 1918 and in South Dakota in the early 1920s. Bemies lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in his later years and died there in 1948. He was posthumously inducted into the Beaver County Hall of Fame in 1992.
Bemies was born in Vermont in 1867. His father, James Otis Bemies, was a tinsmith who was born in Maine. His mother, Ellen Medora (Brigham) Bemies, was...
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Michigan State Spartans head football coaches Henry Keep (1897–1898) CharlesBemies (1899–1900) George Denman (1901–1902) Chester Brewer (1903–1910) John...
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swimming and track and field meets held on the Michigan State campus. Charles E. Forsythe, the state high school athletic director who worked with Frimodig...
1900 college football season. In their second year under head coach CharlesBemies, the Aggies compiled a 1–3 record and were outscored by their opponents...
Michigan State Spartans head football coaches Henry Keep (1897–1898) CharlesBemies (1899–1900) George Denman (1901–1902) Chester Brewer (1903–1910) John...
Lions. During his time with the Lions, he was reunited with wide receiver Charles Rogers, whom he had recruited and coached at MSU. After one season in the...
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