13 Facts About Frank Longman

Frank Chandler "Shorty" Longman was an American college football player and coach.

Frank Longman was born Dec 7,1882 in Fulton, a small community in rural Kalamazoo County, Michigan.

Frank Longman was a member of the June 1902 Kalamazoo High School graduating class, according to an article in the June 19,1902 Kalamazoo Telegraph.

Frank Longman played college football at the University of Michigan from 1903 to 1905, where he was a star fullback.

Frank Longman later served as the head football coach at the University of Arkansas, and the University of Notre Dame.

Outside of Billy Heston and Tom Hammond, Frank Longman was the most respected player on the Wolverine elevens of those years.

Frank Longman was a great line plunger, had an uncanny knack of holding his feet, and when Heston and Hammond buckled on to him to drive him through a line he was hard to stop.

Frank Longman then coached for one season at the College of Wooster in 1908.

In December 1910, Frank Longman sold a photographic business and opened a new business in Ann Arbor, Michigan as a manufacturer of flashlight powders.

Frank Longman was a prime favorite among the pigskin artists, and a general favorite among the student body.

Frank Longman put on the field for Notre Dame the classiest group of football players that ever fought under the Catholic colors.

Frank Longman married Edythe Eberbach on July 10,1906 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Frank Longman died from tuberculosis of the lungs and larynx at the University of Michigan Hospital in 1928 at age 45.