Sam_Costen

Sam Costen

Sam Costen

American football player and coach (1882–1955)

Samuel Cutter Costen[1] (May 18, 1882 – January 21, 1955)[2] was an American football player and coach. Costen was a quarterback for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University. As a player, he weighed some 150 pounds. He was the third head football at The Citadel, serving two seasons, from 1909 to 1910, and compiling a record of 7–7–2.[3] He also coached in .

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Costen graduated from Vanderbilt in 1908 with an LL.B. degree.[4] He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega.[5]

Costen was the first head football coach at Blytheville High School in Blytheville, Arkansas, leading the team from 1913 to 1919. He died on January 21, 1955, in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had lived in the 1930s.[6]

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    "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 5, 2006. Retrieved December 15, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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    "Sam C. Costen".
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    "Citadel Coaching Records". cfbdatawarehouse.com. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
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    "Costen, Crabtree, & Costen". Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory: 2624. 1950.
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    Alpha Tau Omega (1955). The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
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    "Father of Chick Football Passes". Blytheville Courier News. Blytheville, Arkansas. January 22, 1955. p. 1. Retrieved June 14, 2019 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
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