Elmer Mitchell

American college football coach

Elmer Dayton Mitchell (September 6, 1889 – June 15, 1983) was an American football and basketball coach in Michigan who was considered the father of intramural sports.

He was the first varsity basketball coach at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the founder of that school's intramural sports program.

Through 2010, he has the highest winning percentage of any head coach in Eastern Michigan Eagles men's basketball history.Mitchell also coached at Union High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan, received a Medal of Honor from Czechoslovakia for his work in the field of intramural athletics., and was elected into the National Academy of Kinesiology (née American Academy of Physical Education) in 1930 as Fellow #26.

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