American football and basketball player and coach (1896–1962)
American football player
Russ Finsterwald
Personal information
Born:
(1896-08-12)August 12, 1896 Athens, Ohio, U.S.
Died:
June 13, 1962(1962-06-13) (aged 65) Athens, Ohio, U.S.
Height:
5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight:
165 lb (75 kg)
Career information
High school:
Athens (OH)
College:
Syracuse, Ohio
Position:
Wingback
Career history
Detroit Heralds (1920)
Player stats at PFR
Russell Weihr Finsterwald (August 12, 1896 – June 13, 1962) was an American football and basketball player and coach. He played both sports at Syracuse University between 1916 and 1917 before serving in the U.S. Army during World War I. He played professional football for the 1920 Detroit Heralds during the first regular season of the National Football League (NFL), then known as the American Professional Football Association (APFA). He also served as the head coach of the Ohio University football and men's basketball teams in the early 1920s.[1]
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American professional golfer Maxine Finsterwald (1906–1993), American dramatist and playwright RussFinsterwald (1896–1962), American football and basketball...
father, RussFinsterwald, who was in the first class of inductees as a football player, and later basketball and football head coach. Finsterwald turned...
over the Ohio State freshman team and Denison University. In 1920, RussFinsterwald was hired to lead the 'Cats into a new decade. His tenure, however...
Hinaman (1911–1912) M. B. Banks (1913–1917) Frank Gullum (1918–1919) RussFinsterwald (1920–1922) John C. Heldt (1923) Don Peden (1924–1942) No team (1943–1944)...
(1910–1912) M. B. Banks (1913–1918) Frank Gullum (1919) RussFinsterwald (1920) No team (1921) RussFinsterwald (1922) Butch Grover (1923) Don Peden (1924–1948)...
signings included Snooks Dowd (Lehigh), Norb Sacksteder (Dayton), and RussFinsterwald (Syracuse). The team signed several new players in the week after the...
Hinaman (1911–1912) M. B. Banks (1913–1917) Frank Gullum (1918–1919) RussFinsterwald (1920–1922) John C. Heldt (1923) Don Peden (1924–1942) No team (1943–1944)...
Hinaman (1911–1912) M. B. Banks (1913–1917) Frank Gullum (1918–1919) RussFinsterwald (1920–1922) John C. Heldt (1923) Don Peden (1924–1942) No team (1943–1944)...
Hinaman (1911–1912) M. B. Banks (1913–1917) Frank Gullum (1918–1919) RussFinsterwald (1920–1922) John C. Heldt (1923) Don Peden (1924–1942) No team (1943–1944)...
(1910–1912) M. B. Banks (1913–1918) Frank Gullum (1919) RussFinsterwald (1920) No team (1921) RussFinsterwald (1922) Butch Grover (1923) Don Peden (1924–1948)...
Hinaman (1911–1912) M. B. Banks (1913–1917) Frank Gullum (1918–1919) RussFinsterwald (1920–1922) John C. Heldt (1923) Don Peden (1924–1942) No team (1943–1944)...
Hinaman (1911–1912) M. B. Banks (1913–1917) Frank Gullum (1918–1919) RussFinsterwald (1920–1922) John C. Heldt (1923) Don Peden (1924–1942) No team (1943–1944)...
during the 1922 college football season. Led by third-year head coach RussFinsterwald, the Green and White compiled an overall record of 5–3 with a mark...
(1910–1912) M. B. Banks (1913–1918) Frank Gullum (1919) RussFinsterwald (1920) No team (1921) RussFinsterwald (1922) Butch Grover (1923) Don Peden (1924–1948)...
during the 1921 college football season. Led by second-year head coach RussFinsterwald, the Green and White compiled an overall record of 4–4–1 with a mark...
Hinaman (1911–1912) M. B. Banks (1913–1917) Frank Gullum (1918–1919) RussFinsterwald (1920–1922) John C. Heldt (1923) Don Peden (1924–1942) No team (1943–1944)...
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