Alvin Twitchell: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|American football and basketball coach}}

{{Infobox college coach

| name = Alvin Twitchell

| image = Alvin Twitchell.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Twitchell (left) pictured in ''The Banyan 1923'', BYU yearbook

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1892|5|13}}

| birth_place = [[Beaver, Utah]], U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1955|5|10|1892|5|13}}

| death_place = [[Pueblo, Colorado]], U.S.

| alma_mater =

| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1922–1924

| coach_team2 = [[BYU Cougars football|BYU]]

| coach_years3 = 1941

| coach_team3 = [[Centennial High School (Pueblo, Colorado)|Pueblo Centennial HS (CO)]]

| coach_sport4 = Basketball

| coach_years5 = 1920–1925

| coach_team5 = [[BYU Cougars men's basketball|BYU]]

| coach_years6 = 1926–1930

| coach_team6 = [[Colorado College Tigers|Colorado College]]

| overall_record = 5–13–1 (college football)<br>100–51 (college basketball)

| bowl_record =

| tournament_record =

| championships =

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'''Alvin Greenwood Twitchell''' (May 13, 1892 – May 10, 1955)<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Alvin Twitchell |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/ogden-standard-examiner/1955-05-12/page-21 |newspaper=Standard-Examiner |location=[[Ogden, Utah]] |date=May 12, 1955 |accessdate=December 1, 2013 }}</ref> was an [[American football]] and [[basketball]] coach. He was the first head football coach at [[Brigham Young University]] (BYU), serving from 1922 to 1924 and compiling a record of 5–13–1. Twitchell was also the head basketball coach at BYU from 1920 to 1925 and at [[Colorado College]] from 1926 to 1930, amassing a career [[college basketball]] mark of 100–51.

Twitchell started his football coaching tenureatBYU in 1922 with a game against [[Utah State Aggies football|Utah Agricultural]] in [[Logan, Utah]]. BYU lost the game 41–3. Twitchell finished the year with a record of 1–5 with the only win coming against the [[Wyoming Cowboys football|Wyoming]]. His career record at BYU was 5–13–1.

===College football===

{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }}

| conf = [[Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference|Rocky Mountain Conference]]

| name = [[1922 BYU Cougars football team|BYU]]

| overall = 1–5

| conference = 1–5

| name = [[1923 BYU Cougars football team|BYU]]

| overall = 2–5

| conference = 1–5

| confstanding = T–8th

| name = [[1924 BYU Cougars football team|BYU]]

| overall = 2–3–1

| conference = 1–3–1

| overall = 5–13–1

| confrecord = 3–13–1

| overall = 5–13–1

| bowls = no

==External links==

* {{Find a Grave|14399519}}

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[[Category:1892 births]]

[[Category:1955 deaths]]

[[Category:American men's basketball coaches]]

[[Category:Basketball coaches from Utah]]

[[Category:Colorado College Tigers men's basketball coaches]]

[[Category:High school football coaches in Colorado]]

[[Category:People from Beaver, Utah]]