Dwight Harwood

Dwight Harwood
Sport(s)	Football, basketball
Biographical details
Born	(1892-04-29)April 29, 1892 Plainwell, Michigan
Died	August 8, 1965(1965-08-08) (aged 73) Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football 1927–1945 Basketball 1926–1934 1940–1943 1944–1946	Hillsdale Hillsdale Hillsdale Hillsdale
Head coaching record
Overall	69–52–14 (football) 60–104 (basketball)

Dwight Brigham Harwood was an American football and basketball coach in the United States.

Coaching career

Harwood was the head college football coach for the Hillsdale Chargers located in Hillsdale, Michigan. He held that position for 19 seasons, from 1927 until 1945. His coaching record at Hillsdale was 69 wins, 52 losses and 14 ties. As of the conclusion of the 2009 season, this ranks him #3 at Hillsdale in total wins and #13 at the school in winning percentage (.563).^[1]

He died of a heart attack in 1965. He was 73.^[2]

References

Hillsdale Chargers head football coaches

No coach (1891–1895)
D. M. Martin (1896)
Nate Duffy (1897)
D. M. Martin (1898)
No coach (1899–1903)
Harry McRae (1904)
No coach (1905)
William Boone (1906)
James Whipple (1907)
Herbert C. Reed (1908–1910)
Claude J. Hunt (1911–1912)
Charles Firth (1913)
Leroy Buchiet (1914–1917)
Lawrence Manson (1918)
Samuel Taylor (1919)
William J. Rennie (1920–1921)
Louis Ost (1922)
Howard Jefferson (1923–1924)
Elroy Guckert (1925–1926)
Dwight Harwood (1927–1945)
David M. Nelson (1946–1947)
Gib Holgate (1948)
Jack Petoskey (1949–1950)
Irv Wisniewski (1951)
Henry Fallon (1952)
Charlie Bachman (1953)
Muddy Waters (1954–1973)
Jack McAvoy (1974–1977)
Ron Lynch (1978–1979)
Dick Lowry (1980–1996)
Dave Dye (1997–2001)
Keith Otterbein (2002– )

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