32 Facts About Frederick Schule

Frederick William Schule was an American track and field athlete, football player, athletic coach, teacher, bacteriologist, and engineer.

Frederick Schule competed for the track and field teams at the University of Wisconsin from 1900 to 1901 and at the University of Michigan in 1904.

Frederick Schule was a member of the undefeated 1903 Michigan Wolverines football team that outscored its opponents 565 to 6.

In 1904, Schule won the gold medal in the 110 meter hurdles at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St Louis, Missouri.

Frederick Schule worked as a school teacher in Wausau and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and as an assayer and bacteriologist in Utah and Chicago.

Frederick Schule later worked as an engineer and superintendent for Westinghouse Lamp Company.

Frederick Schule's father, Frederick Schule, was an immigrant from Germany who was employed as a physician.

Frederick Schule's mother, Sophia Schule, was an immigrant from Germany.

Frederick Schule began his collegiate studies at the University of Wisconsin, where he was a member of the track and field team from 1899 to 1900.

In 1900, Frederick Schule won the Big Ten Conference championship in the long jump, becoming the first Wisconsin Badgers athlete to win a Big Ten championship in track and field.

Frederick Schule received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1901 in bacteriology and chemistry.

Frederick Schule then returned to the University of Wisconsin for post graduate studies and as a fellow in bacteriology.

Frederick Schule received a master's degree from Michigan in 1904.

In February 1904, Frederick Schule announced that he would compete for the 1904 Michigan Wolverines men's track and field team coached by Keene Fitzpatrick.

In June 1904, the University of Michigan's Athletic Board of Control ruled that Frederick Schule was no longer eligible to compete for the school in intercollegiate athletics, because he had already competed for four years.

Frederick Schule competed for the United States as a hurdler at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St Louis.

Frederick Schule won the gold medal in the 110 meter hurdle event with a time of 16.0 seconds, beating fellow American Thaddeus Shideler by two yards.

Frederick Schule competed in the 200 metre hurdles event and finished fifth.

Frederick Schule served as an instructor and coach at the University of Montana.

Frederick Schule was the head football coach from 1905 to 1906 and the head basketball coach from 1905 to 1907.

At the time of the 1910 United States Census, Frederick Schule was living in Washington Township, Buchanan County, Missouri.

Frederick Schule was identified as a merchant residing in St Joseph, Missouri in March 1912.

Frederick Schule later worked a teacher at West Division High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Frederick Schule listed his occupation as an engineer with the Westinghouse Lamp Company.

At the time of the 1920 United States Census, Frederick Schule was still living in East Orange with his wife Flora.

At the time of the 1930 United States Census, Frederick Schule was living in DeRuyter, New York, with his wife Flora and their three sons.

At the time of the 1940 United States Census, Frederick Schule was living with his wife Flora in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Frederick Schule listed his occupation at that time as a superintendent for a lamp manufacturer and indicated that he and his wife had resided in Owensboro, Kentucky in 1935.

In 1942, Schule completed a draft registration card indicating that he was unemployed and living with his wife Flora R Schule in Jersey City.

Frederick Schule spent much of his retirement years in DeRuyter, New York.

Frederick Schule moved to Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1960 and died there in 1962.

Frederick Schule was buried at the Hillcrest Cemetery in DeRuyter.