Dick Romney
Ernest Lowell "Dick" Romney (February 12, 1895 – February 5, 1969) was an American football, basketball and baseball player and coach, track athlete, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach and athletic director at the Agricultural College of Utah, now Utah State University, from 1918 to 1949, compiling a career college football record of 128–91–16. Romney was also the head basketball coach at Utah Agricultural from 1919 to 1941, tallying a college basketball mark of 224–158. He served as the commissioner of the Skyline Conference from 1949 to 1960. Romney was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954 and was elected to the Helms Athletic Foundation and Hall of Fame as a football coach in 1958.
Romney pictured in Buzzer 1921, Utah Agricultural yearbook | |
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 12, 1895 Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. |
| Died | February 5, 1969 (aged 73) Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1914–1916 | Utah |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1919–1948 | Utah Agricultural |
| Basketball | |
| 1919–1941 | Utah Agricultural |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1919–1948 | Utah Agricultural |
| 1949–1960 | Skyline Six / Skyline (comm.) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 128–91–16 (football) 224–158 (basketball) |
| Bowls | 0–1 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Football 3 RMC (1921, 1935–1936) 1 MSC (1946) | |
| College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1954 (profile) | |