Joe Schwarzer
American football coach
Joseph Karl Schwarzer (September 2, 1895 – September 7, 1989) was an American football and basketball player and coach. He was an All-American football and basketball player at Syracuse University and spent two seasons as the head football coach at Manhattan College.
Playing
Schwarzer was born in Austria-Hungary and immigrated to the United States when he was four years old. He was a standout athlete at Albany High School and captained the football, basketball, and baseball teams at Syracuse University. He played for the Syracuse basketball team from 1915 to 1918 and was captain of the National Champion 1917–18 Syracuse Orangemen basketball team. Syracuse went 38–7 during Schwarzer's three seasons on the team and he was retroactively named to the 1918 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans by the Helms Athletic Foundation. He was also an All-American end for the Syracuse Orangemen football team. He graduated from the Syracuse University College of Law in 1919.
Schwarzer played professional basketball for a number of teams, including the Rochester Centrals and the Syracuse All-Americans.
Coaching
In 1920, Schwarzer became an assistant football coach under Chick Meehan at Syracuse.
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