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{{Short description|American athlete (1878–1935)}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Ralph Hutchinson
| image = Hutchinson Ralph H.jpg
| alt = 
| caption = ''Wickiup 1923'', Idaho State yearbook
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1878|2|19}}
| birth_place = [[Elmira, New York]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1935|3|30|1878|2|19}}
| death_place = [[Moscow, Idaho]], U.S.
| alma_mater = 
| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = 1898–1899
| player_team2 = [[Princeton Tigers football|Princeton]]
| player_years3 = 1900
| player_team3 = [[Greensburg Athletic Association|Greensburg A. A.]]
| player_positions = [[Quarterback]]
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1900
| coach_team2 = [[Greensburg Athletic Association|Greensburg A. A.]]
| coach_years3 = 1901
| coach_team3 = [[Dickinson Red Devils football|Dickinson]]
| coach_years4 = 1902
| coach_team4 = [[Princeton Tigers football|Princeton]] (backs)
| coach_years5 = 1903–1905
| coach_team5 = [[Texas Longhorns football|Texas]]
| coach_years6 = 1911–1916
| coach_team6 = [[New Mexico Lobos football|New Mexico]]
| coach_years7 = 1918
| coach_team7 = [[Washington & Jefferson Presidents football|Washington & Jefferson]]
| coach_years8 = 1919
| coach_team8 = [[Idaho Vandals football|Idaho]]
| coach_years9 = 1920–1927
| coach_team9 = [[Idaho State Bengals football|Idaho Technical / Idaho Southern Branch]]
| coach_sport10 = Basketball
| coach_years11 = 1910–1917
| coach_team11 = [[New Mexico Lobos men's basketball|New Mexico]]
| coach_years12 = 1919–1920
| coach_team12 = [[1919–20 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team|Idaho]]
| coach_years13 = 1926–1927
| coach_team13 = [[Idaho State Bengals men's basketball|Idaho Technical]]
| coach_sport14 = Baseball
| coach_years15 = 1904–1906
| coach_team15 = [[Texas Longhorns baseball|Texas]]
| coach_years16 = 1910–1917
| coach_team16 = [[New Mexico Lobos baseball|New Mexico]]
| admin_years1 = 1911–1917
| admin_team1 = [[New Mexico Lobos|New Mexico]]
| admin_years2 = 1928–1929
| admin_team2 = [[Idaho Vandals|Idaho]]
| overall_record = 62–55–6	 (college football)<br />3–6–1 (pro football)<br />56–18 (college basketball)<br />69–44–2 (college baseball)
| bowl_record = 
| tournament_record = 
| championships = 
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}}
'''Ralph Fielding''' "'''Hutch'''" '''Hutchinson''' (February 19, 1878 – March 30, 1935) was an [[American football]], [[basketball]], and [[baseball]] player. He served as the head football coach at [[Dickinson College]] (1901), the [[University of Texas at Austin]] (1903–1905), the [[University of New Mexico]] (1911–1916), [[Washington & Jefferson College]] (1918), the [[University of Idaho]] (1919), and the Idaho Technical Institute (now [[Idaho State University]]) (1920–1927), compiling a career [[college football]] record of 62–55–6. Hutchinson was also the head basketball coach at New Mexico (1910–1917), Idaho (1919–1920), and Idaho Technical (1926–1927), amassing a career [[college basketball]] record of 56–18, and the head baseball coach at Texas from 1904 to 1906 and at New Mexico from 1910 to 1917, tallying a career [[college baseball]] mark of 69–44–2.

==Playing career==
Born in [[Elmira, New York]], Hutchinson played varsity football and baseball and ran track at [[Princeton University]].<ref name=spokhut>{{cite news |title=Ralph Hutchinson Summoned by Death |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vtRXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B_UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3144,231769 |newspaper=[[The Spokesman-Review|Spokane Daily Chronicle]] |date=April 1, 1935 |access-date=December 29, 2010}}</ref> In football, he was a [[quarterback]] and later played the position as a [[player-coach]] for the [[Greensburg Athletic Association]], an early professional football team out of [[Greensburg, Pennsylvania]], in [[1900 Greensburg Athletic Association season|1900]].<ref>{{cite journal | title=The History of Pro Football At Greensburg, Pennsylvania (1894-1900) | journal=Coffin Corner | publisher=Professional Football Researchers Association | issue=Annual | year=1983 | pages=1–14 | url=http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/05-An-165.pdf | author=Van Atta, Robert | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127054500/http://profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/05-An-165.pdf | archive-date=November 27, 2010 }}</ref>

Hutchinson also played [[minor league baseball]]. He played for the 1902 [[Flandreau Indians]] of the [[Iowa-South Dakota League]]. There, his manager was [[Art Hillebrand]], who played college football with Hutchinson at Princeton and was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi|title=Register Team Encyclopedia|website=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://footballfoundation.org/hof_search.aspx?hof=2095|title=Art "Doc" Hillebrand (1970) - Hall of Fame|website=National Football Foundation}}</ref>

==Coaching career==
===Dickinson===
Hutchison was the third head football coach at [[Dickinson College]] in [[Carlisle, Pennsylvania]], serving for one season, in the 1901.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TQUbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kkgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1855,5823142|newspaper=Pittsburgh Press|title=Ralph Hutchinson to coach Dickinson|date=May 7, 1901|page=8}}</ref><ref>[http://www.centennial.org/football/2008/guide/PDF/21-23-Dickinson.pdf Centennial Conference] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029080109/http://www.centennial.org/football/2008/guide/PDF/21-23-Dickinson.pdf |date=October 29, 2008 }} "2008 Centennial Conference Football Prospectus"</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.centennial.org/football/mediaguide/PDF/21-23-Dickinson.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513071717/http://www.centennial.org/football/mediaguide/PDF/21-23-Dickinson.pdf |url-status=dead |title=Dickinson College Football Media Guide|archive-date=May 13, 2008}}</ref>

===Texas===
From 1903 to 1905, Hutchinson coached at [[Texas Longhorns football|Texas]], where he compiled a 16–7–2 record.

===New Mexico===
Hutchinson was the first basketball coach at the [[University of New Mexico]], compiling a 32–8 record from 1910 to 1917. New Mexico played games only sporadically before the 1920s, with no regular schedule.

===Washington & Jefferson===
Hutchinson was hired in August 1918 as head coach at [[Washington & Jefferson Presidents football|Washington & Jefferson]], south of [[Pittsburgh]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IUleAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bmANAAAAIBAJ&pg=6466,2110944|newspaper=Washington (PA) Reporter|title=Ralph F. Hutchinson is eighteenth head coach...|date=August 21, 1918|page=10}}</ref>

===Idaho===
Hutchinson was the head football coach at the [[University of Idaho]] for the [[1919 Idaho Vandals football team|1919 season]]. A "shorter than normal" season, his team posted a {{nowrap|2–3}} record. He also coached the [[Idaho Vandals men's basketball|basketball team]] for the [[1919–20 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team|1919–20]] season.

===Idaho Technical Institute===
In 1920, Hutchinson moved south to the [[Idaho State University|Idaho Technical Institute]] in [[Pocatello, Idaho|Pocatello]]. He coached through the 1927 season, tallying a {{winning percentage|25|22|2|record=y}} record at the two-year school, which was renamed the "University of Idaho–Southern Branch" in 1927. It was renamed "Idaho State College" in 1947 after gaining four-year status and became [[Idaho State University]] in 1963.

On November 4, 1922, the Idaho Tech football team played its first game on Hutchinson Field, named in his honor.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97094818/dedicate-field-saturday/ |title=Dedicate Field Saturday |agency=[[Associated Press|AP]] |newspaper=[[Idaho Statesman]] |location=[[Boise, Idaho]] |page=6 |date=November 3, 1922 |accessdate=March 6, 2022 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Wickiup |title=Athletics: Field Dedication |date=1923 |publisher=Idaho Technical Institute |url=http://libpublic2.eol.isu.edu/wickiup/1923/23athle.pdf |pages=58–60 |via=ISU.edu |accessdate=March 6, 2022}}</ref> The field was used until partway through the 1936 season, when football games moved to the "[[Spud Bowl]]".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97075400/workmen-speed-up-job-of-building-stadium/ |title=Workmen Speed up Job of Building Stadium |agency=[[Associated Press|AP]] |newspaper=[[Idaho Statesman]] |location=[[Boise, Idaho]] |page=6 |date=November 9, 1936 |accessdate=March 6, 2022 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97075861/montana-wins-from-branch/ |title=Montana Wins from Branch |agency=[[Associated Press|AP]] |newspaper=[[Idaho Statesman]] |location=[[Boise, Idaho]] |page=11 |date=November 12, 1936 |accessdate=March 6, 2022 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> The former Hutchinson Field area continues to be known as the Hutchinson Memorial Quadrangle.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97094987/from-bantams-to-tigers-to-bengals/ |title=From Bantams to Tigers to Bengals |newspaper=[[Idaho State Journal]] |location=[[Pocatello, Idaho]] |page=A-3 |date=March 7, 1976 |accessdate=March 6, 2022 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref>

==After coaching==
After eight years in Pocatello, Hutchinson returned to the University of Idaho in [[Moscow, Idaho|Moscow]] in 1928, where he was the athletic director for a year, as well as the head track coach and an assistant football coach.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/uidahodigital/docs/gem1929/163|work=Gem of the Mountains|year=1929|title=Director of Athletics|page=159}}</ref> After the hiring of [[Leo Calland]] in 1929, Hutchinson was the athletic trainer and a professor of physical education,<ref name=spokhut/> and the head coach of minor sports.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/uidahodigital/docs/gem1933/234|work=Gem of the Mountains|year=1933|title=Minor sports|page=230}}</ref> Following a brief illness, he died at the age of 57 on March 30, 1935, of a heart attack at his Moscow home.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ralph F. Hutchinson |agency=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/04/01/94592031.pdf |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 1, 1935 |access-date=December 29, 2010}}</ref> In 1980, Hutchinson was inducted to Idaho State's athletic hall of fame.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://isubengals.com/honors/hall-of-fame/-ralph-hutchinson/35 |title=Ralph Hutchinson |website=isubengals.com |accessdate=March 21, 2022}}</ref>

==Head coaching record==
[[File:1921 Idaho Technical Tigers football team.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.2|1921 Idaho Technical Tigers team photo—Hutchinson is standing at far left of the back row]]

===College football===
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Dickinson Red Devils football|Dickinson Red and White]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1901
 | endyear   = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1901 college football season|1901]]
 | name         = [[1901 Dickinson Red and White football team|Dickinson]] 
 | overall      = 4–6
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Dickinson
 | overall    = 4–6
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Texas Longhorns football|Texas Longhorns]]
 | conf      = [[Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association]]
 | startyear = 1903
 | endyear   = 1905
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1903 college football season|1903]]
 | name         = [[1903 Texas Longhorns football team|Texas]]
 | overall      = 5–1–2
 | conference   = 1–0–1
 | confstanding = T–5th
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1904 college football season|1904]]
 | name         = [[1904 Texas Longhorns football team|Texas]]
 | overall      = 6–2
 | conference   = 1–0
 | confstanding = 4th
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1905 college football season|1905]]
 | name         = [[1905 Texas Longhorns football team|Texas]]
 | overall      = 5–4
 | conference   = 2–1
 | confstanding = 5th
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Texas
 | overall    = 16–7–2
 | confrecord = 4–1–1
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[New Mexico Lobos football|New Mexico]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1911
 | endyear   = 1916
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1911 college football season|1911]]
 | name         = [[1911 University of New Mexico football team|New Mexico]]
 | overall      = 1–3–1
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1912 college football season|1912]]
 | name         = [[1912 University of New Mexico football team|New Mexico]]
 | overall      = 0–4
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1913 college football season|1913]]
 | name         = [[1913 University of New Mexico football team|New Mexico]]
 | overall      = 3–2
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1914 college football season|1914]]
 | name         = [[1914 University of New Mexico football team|New Mexico]]
 | overall      = 3–1–1
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1915 college football season|1915]]
 | name         = [[1915 University of New Mexico football team|New Mexico]]
 | overall      = 3–1
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1916 college football season|1916]]
 | name         = [[1916 University of New Mexico football team|New Mexico]]
 | overall      = 3–2
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = New Mexico
 | overall    = 13–13–2
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Washington & Jefferson Presidents football|Washington & Jefferson Red and Black]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1918
 | endyear   = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1918 college football season|1918]]
 | name         = [[1918 Washington & Jefferson Red and Black football team|Washington & Jefferson]]
 | overall      = 2–2
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Washington & Jefferson
 | overall    = 2–2
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Idaho Vandals football|Idaho Vandals]]
 | conf      = [[Northwest Conference (1908–1925)|Northwest Conference]]
 | startyear = 1919
 | endyear   = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1919 college football season|1919]]
 | name         = [[1919 Idaho Vandals football team|Idaho]]
 | overall      = 2–3
 | conference   = 1–2
 | confstanding = 4th
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Idaho
 | overall    = 2–3
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Idaho State Bengals football|Idaho Technical / Idaho Southern Branch Tigers]]
 | conf      = junior college
 | startyear = 1920
 | endyear   = 1927
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1920 college football season|1920]]
 | name         = Idaho Technical
 | overall      = 3–3
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1921 college football season|1921]]
 | name         = Idaho Technical
 | overall      = 6–2
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1922 college football season|1922]]
 | name         = Idaho Technical
 | overall      = 4–3
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1923 college football season|1923]]
 | name         = Idaho Technical
 | overall      = 3–2–1
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1924 college football season|1924]]
 | name         = Idaho Technical
 | overall      = 5–2
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1925 college football season|1925]]
 | name         = Idaho Technical
 | overall      = 2–4
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1926 college football season|1926]]
 | name         = Idaho Technical
 | overall      = 1–4
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1927 college football season|1927]]
 | name         = Idaho Southern Branch
 | overall      = 1–4–1
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Idaho Technical / Idaho Southern Branch
 | overall    = 25–24–2
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
 | overall  = 62–55–6
 | bowls    = no
 | poll     = no
 | polltype = 
 | legend   = no
}}

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