Ben Beck


Benjamin Harlow Beck was an American college football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Nebraska [Wesleyan University] in 1919, at Hamline University from 1921 to 1923, and at Middlebury College from 1928 to 1941. Beck was hired as coach of all freshmen athletics at Brown University in 1924.
Beck was born April 14, 1889, in Bartley, Nebraska, to Charles and Sarah Beck. He attended Nebraska Wesleyan and graduated from the University of Nebraska with a Bachelor of Science degree. Beck died on January 26, 1968, at Guthrie Nursing Home in Woodstock, Vermont.