1. Roy Alexander "Katy" Easterday was an American football and basketball player, track and field athlete, coach, college athletics administrator, and dentist.
19 Facts About Katy Easterday
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Katy Easterday played at the halfback position for the Pittsburgh Panthers football teams from 1917 to 1918 and was selected as an All-American in 1918.
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Katy Easterday was an all-state basketball player and held the state record in the pole vault.
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The dental students on the 1917 team included Katy Easterday, Skip Gougler, "Tank" McLaren, "Jake" Stahl.
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Katy Easterday ran track at Pitt and played for the university's basketball teams, serving as the team captain in 1917.
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Katy Easterday graduated from Pitt in 1919 with a degree in dentistry.
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Katy Easterday passed his state dentistry examination but opted to pursue a career in coaching.
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Katy Easterday coached three pitchers who went on to play Major League Baseball: Jesse "T-Bone" Winters, John "Lefty" Middleton, and Lefty Ward.
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Katy Easterday coached for four years each at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia.
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From 1924 to 1928, Katy Easterday was the athletic director at Waynesburg College.
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Katy Easterday was inducted into Waynesburg's Yellow-Jacket Sports Hall of Fame in 1971.
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Katy Easterday coached all sports at Waynesburg, including football, basketball and track in the mid-1920s.
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From 1929 to 1933, Katy Easterday coached football and basketball at Kittanning High School, located 44 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
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Katy Easterday coached the Kittanning Wildcats to their first undefeated, untied season in which they allowed only 12 points scored against them the entire year.
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Katy Easterday practiced as a dentist in Kittanning, Pennsylvania in the 1930s, and worked for a couple of years with the National Youth Association.
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From 1937 to 1942, he worked for Allegheny Ludlum Steel and from 1942 to 1959, Katy Easterday was a safety supervisor at the Pullman-Standard Company in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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Katy Easterday was one of the organizers of the Butler County Safety Council.
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Katy Easterday had begun his coaching career at Hardin-Simmons College near Odessa and met his wife there.
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Katy Easterday was married to Myrtle Christian, and the couple had a daughter.