About Ellison Edwin Ketchum
Lived 1908 – 1960 (aged 52). Ellison Edwin Ketchum was an American basketball coach.
Ellison Edwin Ketchum (July 22, 1908 – November 21, 1960) was an American football and basketball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He was the head football coach at the University of Denver for one season in 1942, compiling a record of 6–3–1. Ketchum served two stints as the head basketball coach at Denver, from 1940 to 1943 and from 1946 to 1948, amassing a record of 63–60.
Biography Ketchum was born on July 22, 1908, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He graduated from the University of Denver, where he lettered in football and basketball, in 1930. Ketchum died of cancer on November 21, 1960, in Coral Gables, Florida.
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Ellison Edwin Ketchum was born on 22 July 1908 in Colorado Springs.
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Ellison Edwin Ketchum died on 21 November 1960 in Coral Gables.
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