About Doug Fessenden
Lived 1901 – 1970 (aged 68). Doug Fessenden was an American athletics competitor.
Douglas A. Fessenden (September 7, 1901 – June 11, 1970) was an American football coach and college athletics administrator.
Fessenden began his coaching career in 1925 at Main Avenue High School—now known as Fox Tech High School—in San Antonio, Texas. He moved to Brownsville High School in Brownsville, Texas in 1928. Fessenden was head football coach at Fenger High School in Chicago from 1930 to 1934, before coming head coach at the University of Montana in April 1935. Fessenden served two separate stints as Montana's head coach, from 1935 to 1941 and again from 1946 to 1948.
Fessenden died in San Francisco, California on June 11, 1970.
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Who was Doug Fessenden?
American football coach and administrator
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Doug Fessenden was born on 7 September 1901 in Onawa.
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Doug Fessenden died on 11 June 1970 in San Francisco.
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Doug Fessenden was an athletics competitor.
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Doug Fessenden was American.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Doug Fessenden. https://biography.guide/doug-fessenden/
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