Irving Pray
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Irving Rudolph Pray (December 25, 1886 – August 27, 1948) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont from 1913 to 1914 and Louisiana State University (LSU) for part of the 1916 season and for full seasons in 1919 and 1922, compiling a career college football coaching record of 11–20.[1]
Pray was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] He was born in Natick, Massachusetts and died in Alexandria, Louisiana.[3][4]
Pray was the head football coach at Natick High School, in hometown in 1911. In 1915, he appointed head football coach at Salem High School in Salem, Massachusetts, succeeding Harold McDevitt.[5]
Head coaching record
College football
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norwich Cadets (Independent) (1913–1914) | |||||||||
| 1913 | Norwich | 0–3 | |||||||
| 1914 | Norwich | 0–8 | |||||||
| Norwich: | 0–11 | ||||||||
| LSU Tigers (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1916) | |||||||||
| 1916 | LSU | 2–0* | 1–0* | ||||||
| LSU Tigers (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1919) | |||||||||
| 1919 | LSU | 6–2 | 2–2 | ||||||
| LSU Tigers (Southern Conference) (1922) | |||||||||
| 1922 | LSU | 3–7 | 1–2 | T–12th | |||||
| LSU: | 11–9 | 4–4 | *First 5 games of season were coached by E. T. MacDonnell and the last 3 by Dana X. Bible. | ||||||
| Total: | 11–20 | ||||||||
See also
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