Harvey Emery

Harvey Emery
Sport(s) Football, wrestling and track
Biographical details
Born June 25, 1902
Hoboken, New Jersey
Died February 1979
New Jersey

Harvey Charles Emery (June 25, 1902 – February 1979) was an athlete, American football coach, and banker. He was a three-sport athlete at Princeton University in the early 1920s and serves as an assistant athletic director and assistant football coach at the University of Michigan in the 1920s and 1930s. He later had a career in banking, serving as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the First Trenton National Bank in Trenton, New Jersey.

Early years

Emery was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, and grew up in Manhattan, New York City. His father was the superintendent of the Marine Division of the Lackawanna Railroad.[1] Emery attended preparatory school at Exeter in New Hampshire.[1]

Princeton

While attending Princeton University, he was a member of the football, track and wrestling teams. He played at the tackle position for the football team and competed in the hammer throw and discus events. He was also chosen as the captain of the track and wrestling teams, president of Princeton's Class of 1924, Chairman of the Senior Council, and president of the Philadelphia Society and the campus Y.M.C.A.[1][2][3] Upon graduating from Princeton in 1924, Emery was also selected by his classmates as the "best all-around man," the "most respected," the "best all-around athlete," the "most popular," and the "busiest."[4] Sports writer Lawrence Perry described him as "one of the highest type of college athlete, mentally, physically, and morally who has ever come out of a college."[5]

Michigan

After graduating from Princeton in 1924, Emery was recruited to coach at the University of Michigan by athletic director Fielding H. Yost.[5] He served as an assistant athletic director and also as an assistant football coach, with principal responsibility for linemen, under head coaches George Little in 1924,[6] Fielding H. Yost in 1926,[7] and Harry Kipke starting in 1929.[8][9][10] In 1926, a newspaper profile of Emery described him as Michigan's "promulgator of mental poise and spiritual uplift."[5]

Family and later years

In 1925, Emery took the year off from coach and toured the world.[5] In August 1925, he was married in Peking, China, to Mary Carter, the daughter of the director of the Peking Union Medical College.[1] Emery and his wife had a daughter, Julie Tweedale Emery, who was married in 1956 to Bayard Henry.[11] They also had a son John Matthew Emery II.[12]

After retiring from athletic coaching and administration, Emery had a career in banking. He served as a vice president at the Banker's Trust Company of New York and later as the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the First Trenton National Bank in Trenton, New Jersey. In 1959, he also became a director of Applied Science Corporation, an electronic research and manufacturing company specializing in telemetry and data processing.[13][14] He also served as the president of the Phillips Exeter Academy Alumni Association in the late 1940s.[15]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Miss Mary Carter Married in China". The New York Times. September 17, 1925.
  2. ↑ "Wrestlers Elect Emery: Princeton Matmen Name New York City Boy Captain". The New York Times. April 20, 1923.
  3. ↑ "Tigers Elect Two Leaders: Emery and Howard to Head Track and Tennis Teams". The New York Times. June 5, 1923. p. 17.
  4. ↑ "Princeton Seniors Elect: New Yorker Chosen "Best All Around Man" and "Most Popular"". The New York Times. May 16, 1924.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Emery and Oberlander Keep Michigan and Ohio Braced". Youngstown Vindicator. November 4, 1926.
  6. ↑ "1924 Football Team". University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library.
  7. ↑ "Cappon Leaves Michigan; New Coach Will Join Staff: Harvey Emery Rejoins Yost's Assistants After Tour of the World". The Ludington Daily News. August 29, 1926.
  8. ↑ "Emery To Coach". The Pittsburgh Press. October 29, 1929.
  9. ↑ William Weekes (October 29, 1929). "Thistlewaite and Kipke Working Hard to Assemble New Machines". Telegraph-Herald and Times-Journal. p. 8.
  10. ↑ "It's New vs. Old on Big Ten Card". The Ludington Daily News. October 16, 1936.
  11. ↑ "Julie Emery Married in Princeton". The New York Times. September 30, 1956.
  12. ↑ "Patricia Monroe Becomes a Bride". The New York Times. August 9, 1956.
  13. ↑ "Applied Science Corp. Elects". The New York Times. April 1, 1959.
  14. ↑ "Named ASCOP Director". Town Topics. April 12, 1959.
  15. ↑ "H.P. Gross Heads Exeter Alumni". The New York Times. May 28, 1950.
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