21 Facts About Bill Schmeisser

Bill Schmeisser served as the head coach of the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays for ten non-consecutive years, and won eight national championships.

Bill Schmeisser was an active patron of the sport and promoter of its development.

Bill Schmeisser helped found the highly successful amateur Mount Washington Lacrosse Club.

Bill Schmeisser was born on August 4,1880, in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended high school at Baltimore City College, from which he graduated in 1899.

Bill Schmeisser received his undergraduate college education at Johns Hopkins University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1902.

Bill Schmeisser was a member of the Beta Mu chapter of Phi Gamma Delta.

Bill Schmeisser returned to Johns Hopkins for graduate study in the field of political economy, and played an additional year of lacrosse, in 1905.

Bill Schmeisser returned to Hopkins as its head lacrosse coach from 1905 to 1909.

Bill Schmeisser took the position again from 1923 to 1925, and Johns Hopkins secured the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association championships in 1923 and 1924.

Bill Schmeisser helped organize and played on the Mount Washington Lacrosse Club, a highly successful Baltimore-based amateur team.

Bill Schmeisser helped promote lacrosse at the University of Maryland and the Naval Academy.

In 1928, Johns Hopkins won a postseason tournament to represent the United States in a lacrosse exhibition event during the Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, and Bill Schmeisser accompanied the team as an assistant coach.

Bill Schmeisser traveled to England in 1937 alongside the all-star team.

In 1941, just two months before his death, Bill Schmeisser convinced the undefeated Johns Hopkins team to accept a challenge from the likewise undefeated Mount Washington Club.

Bill Schmeisser was a long-time official of the USILA, and he held positions that included member of the rules committee, chief referee, and president.

Bill Schmeisser was inducted into the Johns Hopkins University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1995.

Bill Schmeisser is the namesake of the William C Schmeisser Award, which is given annually to the most outstanding defenseman in NCAA Division I men's lacrosse.

Bill Schmeisser was an attorney by trade and never accepted payment for his coaching.

Bill Schmeisser served sixteen years on the board of directors of the YMCA's Baltimore Branch and as president from 1938 to 1941.

Bill Schmeisser married Isabel Wooldrige, with whom he had two children, a son and a daughter.

Bill Schmeisser died on July 1,1941, at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore after a month-long illness.