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{{Short description|American football, basketball, and track and field coach}}
{{distinguish|Andrew Ker}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Andy Kerr
| image = AndrewKerratPitt.jpg
| alt = 
| caption = Kerr at the University of Pittsburgh, c. 1920
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1878|10|7}}
| birth_place = [[Cheyenne, Wyoming]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1969|2|17|1878|10|7}}
| death_place = [[Tucson, Arizona]], U.S.
| alma_mater = 
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1913–1921
| coach_team2 = [[Pittsburgh Panthers football|Pittsburgh]] (assistant)
| coach_years3 = 1922–1923
| coach_team3 = [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]]
| coach_years4 = 1924–1925
| coach_team4 = Stanford (assistant)
| coach_years5 = 1926–1928
| coach_team5 = [[Washington & Jefferson Presidents football|Washington & Jefferson]]
| coach_years6 = 1929–1946
| coach_team6 = [[Colgate Raiders football|Colgate]]
| coach_years7 = 1947–1949
| coach_team7 = [[Lebanon Valley Flying Dutchmen football|Lebanon Valley]]
| coach_sport8 = Basketball
| coach_years9 = 1921–1922
| coach_team9 = [[Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball|Pittsburgh]]
| coach_years10 = 1922–1926
| coach_team10 = [[Stanford Cardinal men's basketball|Stanford]]
| coach_years11 = 1926–1928
| coach_team11 = [[Washington & Jefferson Presidents men's basketball|Washington & Jefferson]]
| coach_sport12 = Track & field
| coach_years13 = 1913–1922
| coach_team13 = [[Pittsburgh Panthers|Pittsburgh]]
| overall_record = 137–71–14 (football)<br>70–39 (basketball)
| bowl_record = 
| tournament_record = 
| championships = 
| awards = [[Amos Alonzo Stagg Award]] (1963)
| coaching_records = 
| CFBHOF_year = 1951
| CFBHOF_id = 1529
}}
'''Andrew Kerr IV''' (October 7, 1878 – February 17, 1969) was an [[American football]], [[basketball]], and [[track and field]] coach. He served as the head football coach at [[Stanford University]] (1922–1923), [[Washington & Jefferson Presidents football|Washington & Jefferson College]] (1926–1928), [[Colgate University]] (1929–1946), and [[Lebanon Valley College]] (1947–1949), compiling a career [[college football]] record of 137–71–14. His [[1932 Colgate Red Raiders football team|1932 Colgate team]] went a perfect 9–0, was not scored upon, and was named a [[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS|national champion]] by [[Parke H. Davis]]. Kerr was also the head basketball coach at the [[University of Pittsburgh]] for one season (1921–1922) and at Stanford for four seasons (1922–1926), tallying a career [[college basketball]] mark of 54–26. In addition, he coached track and field at Pittsburgh from 1913 to 1921. Kerr was inducted into the [[College Football Hall of Fame]] in 1951. Colgate's home football stadium, [[Andy Kerr Stadium]], was dedicated in his honor in 1966.<ref name="Obit">{{cite news|title = Andy Kerr, 90, Football Coach At Colgate for 18 Years, Is Dead; '32 Team, Ignored for Bowls, Was Known as 'Undefeated, Untied and Uninvited|work = [[The New York Times]]|date = February 17, 1969}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | editor1-last = Hotchkiss | editor1-first = Greg | title = 2008-09 Pitt Men's Basketball Media Guide | publisher = University of Pittsburgh Athletic Media Relations Office | year = 2008 | location = Pittsburgh, PA | pages = 137 | url = http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/pitt/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/0809-mediaguide-section8.pdf | access-date = August 17, 2009 | archive-date = November 12, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181112084600/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/pitt/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/0809-mediaguide-section8.pdf | url-status = dead }}</ref>

==Early years==
Andy Kerr was born in [[Cheyenne, Wyoming]], to Andrew and Mary Elizabeth Kerr. His family moved east to [[Carlisle, Pennsylvania]], where Kerr attended secondary school.<ref name="dick">{{cite web|url=http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/k/ed_kerrA.htm |title=Andrew Kerr (1878-1969) |publisher=Chronicles:Encyclopedia Dickinsonia |access-date=June 5, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081122015323/https://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/k/ed_kerrA.htm |archive-date=November 22, 2008 }}</ref> He attended [[Dickinson College]], where he played [[baseball]] and ran track. He then moved to the [[University of Pittsburgh]], where he served as the head track and field coach from 1913 until 1922, as an assistant [[Pittsburgh Panthers football|football]] coach, and, for one season, the head [[Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball|basketball]] coach, leading that squad to a 12–8 record in 1921–22. While at Pitt as an assistant football coach also in charge of the freshman football squad, he served as a member of the staff of head coach [[Pop Warner]].

==Football head coaching career==
In 1922, Warner accepted the head coaching job at [[Stanford University]]. Due to Warner's contractual obligations at Pitt, he sent Kerr to act as Stanford's head coach until his arrival in 1924.<ref name=bashof>{{cite web |url=http://www.bashof.org/inducteebios/pwarner.htm |title=Pop Warner |publisher=Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame |access-date=July 20, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928081840/http://www.bashof.org/inducteebios/pwarner.htm |archive-date=September 28, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Kerr posted an 11–7 record in his two seasons as head and remained with Warner as an assistant for two more seasons. He also coached the [[Stanford Cardinal men's basketball|Stanford men's basketball team]] from 1922 to 1926.

Andy Kerr served as the 23rd head football coach at [[Colgate University]]. He held that position for eighteen seasons, from 1929 until 1946. His overall coaching record at Colgate was 95–50–7. Kerr's 95 wins are the second most in program in history. His [[1932 Colgate Red Raiders football team|1932 Colgate squad]] was undefeated, and did not allow a single point all season. The team expected to be invited to play in the [[1933 Rose Bowl|Rose Bowl]] but when Pitt got the invitation instead, he observed that his Colgate team was "undefeated, untied, unscored upon, and uninvited."<ref name="dick" />

==Head coaching record==
===Football===
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]]
 | conf      = [[Pacific Coast Conference]]
 | startyear = 1922
 | endyear   = 1923
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1922 college football season|1922]]
 | name         = [[1922 Stanford football team|Stanford]]
 | overall      = 4–5
 | conference   = 1–3
 | confstanding = T–5th
 | bowlname     = 
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 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1923 college football season|1923]]
 | name         = [[1923 Stanford football team|Stanford]]
 | overall      = 7–2
 | conference   = 2–2
 | confstanding = T–3rd
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 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Stanford
 | overall    = 11–7
 | confrecord = 3–5
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Washington & Jefferson Presidents football|Washington & Jefferson Presidents]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1926
 | endyear   = 1928
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1926 college football season|1926]]
 | name         = [[1926 Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team|Washington & Jefferson]]
 | overall      = 7–1–1
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}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1927 college football season|1927]]
 | name         = [[1927 Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team|Washington & Jefferson]]
 | overall      = 7–0–2
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1928 college football season|1928]]
 | name         = [[1928 Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team|Washington & Jefferson]]
 | overall      = 2–5–2
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}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Washington & Jefferson
 | overall    = 16–6–5
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}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Colgate Raiders football|Colgate Red Raiders]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1929
 | endyear   = 1946
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1929 college football season|1929]]
 | name         = [[1929 Colgate football team|Colgate]]
 | overall      = 8–1
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}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1930 college football season|1930]]
 | name         = [[1930 Colgate football team|Colgate]]
 | overall      = 9–1
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}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1931 college football season|1931]]
 | name         = [[1931 Colgate football team|Colgate]]
 | overall      = 8–1
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1932 college football season|1932]]
 | name         = [[1932 Colgate Red Raiders football team|Colgate]]
 | overall      = 9–0
 | conference   = 
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 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1933 college football season|1933]]
 | name         = [[1933 Colgate Red Raiders football team|Colgate]]
 | overall      = 6–1–1
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 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1934 college football season|1934]]
 | name         = [[1934 Colgate Red Raiders football team|Colgate]]
 | overall      = 7–1
 | conference   = 
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 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1935 college football season|1935]]
 | name         = [[1935 Colgate Red Raiders football team|Colgate]]
 | overall      = 7–3
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 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1936 college football season|1936]]
 | name         = [[1936 Colgate Red Raiders football team|Colgate]]
 | overall      = 6–3
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 | ranking      = no
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}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1937 college football season|1937]]
 | name         = [[1937 Colgate Red Raiders football team|Colgate]]
 | overall      = 3–5
 | conference   = 
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 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1938 college football season|1938]]
 | name         = [[1938 Colgate Red Raiders football team|Colgate]]
 | overall      = 2–5
 | conference   = 
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 | ranking      = no
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}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1939 college football season|1939]]
 | name         = [[1939 Colgate Red Raiders football team|Colgate]]
 | overall      = 2–5–1
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
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 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
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}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1940 college football season|1940]]
 | name         = [[1940 Colgate Red Raiders football team|Colgate]]
 | overall      = 5–3
 | conference   = 
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 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1941 college football season|1941]]
 | name         = [[1941 Colgate Red Raiders football team|Colgate]]
 | overall      = 3–3–2
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
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 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1942 college football season|1942]]
 | name         = [[1942 Colgate Red Raiders football team|Colgate]]
 | overall      = 6–2–1
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
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 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1943 college football season|1943]]
 | name         = [[1943 Colgate Red Raiders football team|Colgate]]
 | overall      = 5–3–1
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
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 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1944 college football season|1944]]
 | name         = [[1944 Colgate Red Raiders football team|Colgate]]
 | overall      = 2–5
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1945 college football season|1945]]
 | name         = [[1945 Colgate Red Raiders football team|Colgate]]
 | overall      = 3–4–1
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
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 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1946 college football season|1946]]
 | name         = [[1946 Colgate Red Raiders football team|Colgate]]
 | overall      = 4–4
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Colgate
 | overall    = 95–50–7
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Lebanon Valley Flying Dutchmen football|Lebanon Valley Flying Dutchmen]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1947
 | endyear   = 1949
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1947 college football season|1947]]
 | name         = Lebanon Valley
 | overall      = 5–2–1
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1948 college football season|1948]]
 | name         = Lebanon Valley
 | overall      = 5–3–1
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1949 college football season|1949]]
 | name         = Lebanon Valley
 | overall      = 5–3
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Lebanon Valley
 | overall    = 15–8–2
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
 | overall  = 137–71–14
 | bowls    = no
 | poll     = no
 | polltype = 
 | legend   =  no
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{College Football HoF|1529}}

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