Gustavius A "Gus" Welch was an American football player, track and field athlete, coach of football and lacrosse, and college athletics administrator.
12 Facts About Gus Welch
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Gus Welch attended the Carlisle Indian School, located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and graduated in 1911.
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Gus Welch was a member of the USA Track and Field team during the 1912 Summer Olympics, although an illness prevented him from competing.
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In 1917, Gus Welch graduated from the Dickinson School of Law.
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From 1923 to 1929, Gus Welch was the athletic director and head football coach at Randolph Macon College.
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From 1935 until 1937, Gus Welch served as the director of athletics and head football coach at Haskell Indian Nations University, located in Lawrence, Kansas.
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In 1929, Gus Welch purchased a boy's camp near the Peaks of the Otter in Bedford County, Virginia, which he operated during the next 30 summers as Camp Kewanzee for young people.
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Gus Welch then purchased a farm near Bedford, Virginia, and continued to work with young athletes.
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Gus Welch finally served as athletic director at American University in Washington, DC prior to his 1970 death.
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In 1973, Gus Welch was named to the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame and in 1975 to National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame.
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In 1923, Gus Welch married Julia Carter, daughter of Charles David Carter, Oklahoma Congressman from Boggy Depot.
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Gus Welch died on January 29,1970, of a heart attack, at Bedford Memorial Hospital in Bedford, Virginia.