Mal Stevens

Military career
Allegiance	<img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/footbal/images/c/c7/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png/revision/latest?cb=20110906085729" alt="United States" class="thumbborder " data-image-key="Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" data-image-name="Flag of the United States.svg.png" width="22" height="12" > United States
Service/branch	United States Navy seal U.S. Navy
Years of service	1942–1946
Rank	20px Lt. Commander
Battles/wars	World War II

Career history
As coach
1924–1927	Yale (assistant)
1928–1932	Yale
1933	Yale (freshmen)
1934–1941	NYU
1946	Brooklyn Dodgers

Mal Stevens
	<img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/footbal/images/a/ac/Mal_Stevens.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/220?cb=20110818072726" alt="Mal Stevens" class="" data-image-key="Mal_Stevens.jpg" data-image-name="Mal Stevens.jpg" width="220" height="300" >
Born:	April 14, 1900; Stockton, Kansas
Died:	December 6, 1979 (aged 79); Bronx, New York
Career information
Position(s)	Quarterback, halfback
College	Washburn, Yale
As coach
1924–1927	Yale (assistant)
1928–1932	Yale
1933	Yale (freshmen)
1934–1941	NYU
1946	Brooklyn Dodgers
	College Football Hall of Fame;
Allegiance	<img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/footbal/images/c/c7/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png/revision/latest?cb=20110906085729" alt="United States" class="thumbborder " data-image-key="Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" data-image-name="Flag of the United States.svg.png" width="22" height="12" > United States
Service/branch	United States Navy seal U.S. Navy
Years of service	1942–1946
Rank	20px Lt. Commander
Battles/wars	World War II

Marvin Allen "Mal" Stevens (April 14, 1900 – December 6, 1979)^[1] was an American football player, coach, naval officer, and orthopedic surgeon. He served as the head football coach at Yale University from 1928 to 1932 and at New York University from 1934 to 1941, compiling a career college football record of 54–45–10. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1974.

Early life, playing career, and educationEdit

Born in Stockton, Kansas, Stevens attended Washburn College for three years before transferring to Yale College.^[1] He lettered in three sports at Washburn and played halfback on Yale's undefeated 1923 football team.^[1] He graduated from Yale in 1925 and was a member of Skull and Bones.^[2] He graduated from Yale Medical School in 1929.^[1]

Coaching career and military serviceEdit

Stevens coached the Yale football team from 1928 to 1932, leaving to become the 21st head football coach at New York University in 1934.^[1]^[3] His coached at NYU through the 1941 season, compiling a record of 33 wins, 34 losses, and 2 ties. This ranks him second at NYU in total wins and tenth at NYU in winning percentage.^[4] Stevens was awarded a place in the NYU Athletic Hall of Fame for his coaching efforts.^[5]

Stevens then served as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy during World War II.^[1] In 1946 he became head coach of the Brooklyn Dodgers of the All-America Football Conference.^[1] He was the Eastern Director of the Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute and Clinic in Jersey City, New Jersey and clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at Bellevue Hospital Center.^[1]

Head coaching recordEdit

CollegeEdit

Year	Team	Overall
Yale Bulldogs (Independent) (1928–1932)
1928	Yale	4–4
1929	Yale	5–2–1
1930	Yale	5–2–2
1931	Yale	5–1–2
1932	Yale	2–2–3
Yale:		21–11–8
NYU Violets (Independent) (1934–1941)
1934	NYU	3–4–1
1935	NYU	7–1
1936	NYU	5–3–1
1937	NYU	5–4
1938	NYU	4–4
1939	NYU	5–4
1940	NYU	2–7
1941	NYU	2–7
NYU:		33–34–2
Total:		54–45–10
^†Indicates BCS bowl, Bowl Alliance or Bowl Coalition game.

ReferencesEdit

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 McGowen, Deane (December 7, 1979). "Dr. Mal Stevens, Football Coach At Yale and N.Y.U., Dead at 79; Served on Boxing Board Naval Officer in World War II". The New York Times: p. D14. Archived from the original on February 16, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100216115834/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1979/12/07/111758986.pdf. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
↑ "YALE SOCIETIES HOLD THEIR ANNUAL TAP DAY: Many Members of Football Squad and Crew Obtain Election -- Five Refuse Honors". New York Times: pp. 22. May 16, 1924.
↑ James Quirk (2004). The Ultimate Guide to College Football. Archived from the original on February 16, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100216115834/https://books.google.com/books?id=JWtcPLD3-hsC&pg=PA293&lpg=PA293&dq=%20%22jake%20high%22%20%20%22NYU%22&source=web&ots=zBZc1nIDs6&sig=mMnmj9_ztBHJz79VRVCHxaqC5P0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result.
↑ New York Coaching Records Script error
↑ NYU Athletics - Hall of Fame

External linksEdit

Mal Stevens at the College Football Hall of Fame
Mal Stevens at Find a Grave

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[NYT-0] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 McGowen, Deane (December 7, 1979). "Dr. Mal Stevens, Football Coach At Yale and N.Y.U., Dead at 79; Served on Boxing Board Naval Officer in World War II". The New York Times: p. D14. Archived from the original on February 16, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100216115834/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1979/12/07/111758986.pdf. Retrieved April 26, 2011.

[Tap_Day_1924-1] "YALE SOCIETIES HOLD THEIR ANNUAL TAP DAY: Many Members of Football Squad and Crew Obtain Election -- Five Refuse Honors". New York Times: pp. 22. May 16, 1924.

[2] James Quirk (2004). The Ultimate Guide to College Football. Archived from the original on February 16, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100216115834/https://books.google.com/books?id=JWtcPLD3-hsC&pg=PA293&lpg=PA293&dq=%20%22jake%20high%22%20%20%22NYU%22&source=web&ots=zBZc1nIDs6&sig=mMnmj9_ztBHJz79VRVCHxaqC5P0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result.

[3] New York Coaching Records Script error

[4] NYU Athletics - Hall of Fame

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