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29 August 2009

Obituary of Daniel George 'Danny' Coogan

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(extracted from "New York Times", 29 OCT 1942, PAGE 23):

DANNY COOGAN

Baseball Ex-Coach at Cornell and U. of P. - Played in Majors

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 28 (AP) - Danny Coogan, former major league 
baseball player, died in a hospital today after being ill nine 
months.  He was 66.

Mr. Coogan starred on University of Pennsylvania teams from 1892 
to 1894, an when 19 years old was signed by the Washington 
Nationals as a catcher.  Later he was a shortstop and utility man.

From Washington Mr. Coogan went to Providence in the old Eastern
League, and then served two years each with Rochester and 
Louisville.  In 1904 he was named baseball coach at Pennsylvania.  
Three years later he succeeded Hughey Jennings as Cornell coach 
when the latter became manager of the Detroit Tigers.  Mr. Coogan
stayed at Cornell until 1913, when he went to Bowdoin, and a year 
later coached Georgetown.

He was a physical director with the Canadian Army in the first 
World War and for four years afterward served in the physical 
education department of the State of Pennsylvania.  In 1924 he 
returned to the University of Pennsylvania to assist Dr. Walter 
Cariss, present coach, who was on his 1904 and 1905 teams.  He 
coached the freshman teams for several years.

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(extracted from "Washington Post", 29 OCT 1942, PAGE 15):

DANNY COOGAN DIES; 
PLAYED WITH '94 NATS

Philadelphia, Oct. 28 - Danny Coogan, 66, former big league 
baseball player, died in a hospital today after a nine-month 
illness...

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(extracted from "?", ? 1942, PAGE ?):

DANIEL G. COOGAN

Daniel G. Coogan, former catcher, shortstop and utility player
who was with the Washington Nationals in 1895, died in a hospital 
in Philadelphia, October 28, after a nine months' illness.  He 
was 66 years old and is survived by his widow.

After starring on University of Pennsylvania teams from 1892 to
1894, Coogan, at the age of 19, joined Washington.  The following
year he went to Providence in the old Eastern League, then
served two years each with Rochester and Louisville.  In 1904, he
returned to his alma mater as baseball coach.  He succeeded
Hughie Jennings, who resigned to manage the Detroit Tigers, as 
coach at Cornell in 1906 and, also coaching basket ball, remained
at the Ithaca, N. Y., university until 1913, when he went to Bowdoin.
A year later, he coached Georgetown.

Coogan was a physical director with the Canadian armies in World War
I and for four years afterward was in the physical education 
department of the state of Pennsylvania.  In 1934, he returned to
Penn to assist Dr. Walter Carliss, present coach, who was on his
teams in 1904 and 1905.  Danny also coached the freshman teams for
a number of years.

The University of Pennsylvania nine was one of the strongest in
college circles the year Coogan was its catcher.  His battery-mate
was Clarence Bayne, a right hand pitcher equally as famous as
Dutch Carter, Yale mound mainstay of that time, and the Red and
Blue's center fielder was Roy Thomas, who went on to become a star
with the Phillies and the Pirates.  Penn honored Bayne's memory
when it named an arch leading onto Franklin Field "Bayne Arch."

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