Ed Swenson
American football, basketball, and soccer coach and athletic administrator
About Ed Swenson
Lived 1901 – 2001 (aged 99–100). Ed Swenson was an association football coach.
Edward C. Swenson (1917 – December 31, 2001) was an American football, basketball, and soccer coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, Massachusetts from 1960 to 1967. As the athletic director at Bridgewater State, Swenson was instrumental in getting football reinstated as a varsity sport in 1960 after the program had been shut down for 30 years. Swenson was also a founding member of the New England Football Conference.
Swenson died on December 31, 2001, in Lady Lake, Florida.
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American football, basketball, and soccer coach and athletic administrator (1917–2001)
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Ed Swenson was born in 1901.
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Ed Swenson died on 31 December 2001 in Lady Lake, Florida.
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Ed Swenson was an association football coach.
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