Robert L. Mathews

Robert Lee "Matty" Mathews (c. 1887 – September 1, 1947) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Kenyon College (1912–1914), Willamette University (1915–1920), the University of Idaho (1922–1925), Saint Louis University (1926–1927), Gonzaga University (1929), the University of Portland (1937–1942), and Lewis & Clark College (1945–1946). He was also the head coach of the West Seattle Athletic Club in 1931 and 1932 and of the American Football League's Portland Rockets in 1944. Mathews was born in Leadville, Colorado and played college football at University of Washington and the University of Notre Dame. He died on September 1, 1947 at the age of 60 of a heart attack in Portland, Oregon.