Don Veller
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Biographical details | |
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Born | Indiana | May 20, 1912
Died | November 10, 2006 Tallahassee, Florida | (aged 94)
Playing career | |
Football | |
1932–1934 | Indiana |
Position(s) | Halfback |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1935–1941 | Elkhart HS (IN) |
1946 | Hanover |
1947 | Indiana (assistant) |
1948–1952 | Florida State |
Golf | |
1953–1958 | Florida State |
1966–1967 | Florida State |
1974–1983 | Florida State |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 35–15–1 (college football) 53–11–4 (high school football) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
3 Dixie (1948–1950) | |
Donald Arld Veller (May 20, 1912 – November 10, 2006) was an American football player and coach of football and golf. He served as the head football coach at Hanover College in 1946 and at Florida State University from 1948 to 1952, compiling a career college football record of 35–15–1. Veller died at the age of 94 on November 10, 2006 in Tallahassee, Florida.[1]
Head coaching record
College football
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Hanover Panthers (Indiana Intercollegiate Conference) (1946) | |||||||||
1946 | Hanover | 4–3 | 3–2 | 6th | |||||
Hanover: | 4–3 | 3–2 | |||||||
Florida State Seminoles (Dixie Conference) (1948–1950) | |||||||||
1948 | Florida State | 7–1 | 4–0 | 1st | |||||
1949 | Florida State | 9–1 | 4–0 | 1st | |||||
1950 | Florida State | 8–0 | 4–0 | 1st | |||||
Florida State Seminoles (Independent) (1951–1952) | |||||||||
1951 | Florida State | 6–2 | |||||||
1952 | Florida State | 1–8–1 | |||||||
Florida State: | 31–12–1 | 14–0 | |||||||
Total: | 35–15–1 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth |
References
- ^ "Ex Florida State football coach Veller dies, to be buried in Vevay". The Madison Courier. Associated Press. November 11, 2006. Retrieved January 30, 2011.
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