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Schule, Frederick William, 1879-1962

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Personal name headingSchule, Frederick William, 1879-1962
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Variant(s)Schule, Fred, 1879-1962
Schule, Fritz, 1879-1962
LocatedMadison (Wis.) Chicago (Ill.) Ann Arbor (Mich.) Missoula (Mont.) East Orange (N.J.) DeRuyter (N.Y.)
Birth date18790927
Death date19620914
Place of birthPreston, Iowa
Place of deathPoughkeepsie (N.Y.)
Field of activityAthletics
Coaching (Athletics)
Engineering
Bacteriology
Education
Found inWork cat: Montana Memory Project website, July 28, 2017 : Archival Photographs from The University of Montana, Missoula County History Series. Description of digitized photo "Men's basketball team" [dated 1907] ("University of Montana men's basketball team. [Those pictured included] Coach Schule")
   <http://mtmemory.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16013coll27/id/738/rec/1>
Michael Brown Rare Books website, accessed July 28, 2017 : Listing for "Correspondence of Frederick 'Fritz' Schule, of the Universities of Wisonsin and Michigan, American track and field athlete, football player, athletic coach, teacher, bacteriologist, engineer, and 1904 Olympic Gold Medal hurdler, 1891-1927" ("Frederick William "Fritz" Schule was an American track and field athlete, football player, athletic coach, teacher, bacteriologist, and engineer. He competed for the track and field teams at the University of Wisconsin from 1900 to 1901 and at the University of Michigan in 1904. He was also a member of the undefeated 1903 Michigan Wolverines football team that outscored its opponents 565 to 6. In 1904, Schule won the gold medal in the 110 meter hurdles at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri. From 1905 to 1907, he was employed as the director of the gymnasium and coach of the football and basketball teams at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana. Schule also worked as a school teacher in Wausau and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and as an assayer and bacteriologist in Utah and Chicago. He later worked as an engineer and superintendent for Westinghouse Lamp Company. In 2008, he was posthumously inducted into the University of Michigan Track and Field Hall of Fame. Schule was born in Preston, Iowa on 27 September 1879 the son of Frederick Schule and his wife Sophia...Schule spent much of his retirement years in DeRuyter, New York. He moved to Poughkeepsie, New York in 1960 and died there on 14 September 1962.")
   <http://mbamericana.com/frederick-schule-correspondence>
University of Michigan Sports website, accessed July 28, 2017 : M Track/Field "U-M to Induct 12-Man Class of 2008 into Hall of Fame [posted May 7, 2008]" ("Fred Schule (1904) Frederick William "Fred" Schule, born in Fairfield, Ohio, was an All-American athlete in hurdles on the University of Michigan track and field team. Schule, a member of the 1904 U.S. Olympic team, won a gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 16.00 and was an AAU Champion in 120-yard hurdles in 1903.")
   <http://www.mgoblue.com/news/2008/5/7/U_M_to_Induct_12_Man_Class_of_2008_Into_Hall_of_Fame.aspx>