45 Notable alumni of Springfield College
Updated: June 15, 2026 EliteDegrees
Springfield College is ranked #2,748 in the world and #713 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 45 notable alumni from Springfield College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Springfield College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. John L. Rothacher
1889-1962 (aged 73)
American football player
John Louis Rothacher was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts from 1924 to 1936, compiling a record of 66–29–12. Rothacher played football at Springfield from 1911 to 1913 as a guard before graduating in 1914.
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2. W. J. Keller
head coach
American football player
William J. Keller was an American college football player and coach and otolaryngologist. He was the second head football coach at Vanderbilt University, serving for one season, in 1893, compiling a record of 6–1. Keller also played and served as team captain for the Vanderbilt Commodores for both the 1893 and 1894 seasons. Before coming to Vanderbilt, he played at...
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3. Elmer Berry
1879-1952 (aged 73)
American football player
Elmer Berry was an American college football and basketball player and coach. He first served as a men's basketball coach at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska during the 1900–01 season.
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4. Ira Van Cleave
1888-1943 (aged 55)
head coach
American football coach
Ira Harlan "Sphinx" Van Cleave was an American football, basketball, baseball, and track and field coach, athletics administrator, and physical education instructor. He served as the head football coach at Fort Hays Kansas State Normal School—now known as Fort Hays State University—in Hays, Kansas from 1912 to 1914, Whittier College in Whittier, California from 1917 to 1919, and La Verne...
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5. Herman G. Steiner
1897-1982 (aged 85)
head coach
Herman G. Steiner was an American football, baseball, and track coach, athletic trainer, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head coach of the Duke Blue Devils football program during the 1922 college football season. Between 1921 and 1927, he was also the Assistant Director of Physical Education at Duke University and served stints as the school's head baseball...
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6. Archie Allen
1913-2006 (aged 93)
baseball player
Archie Patrick Allen was an American college baseball coach, serving primarily as head coach of the Springfield College team from 1948 to 1978. He also managed the United States and Netherlands national baseball teams.
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7. Harry A. Dame
1878-1933 (aged 55)
teacher
American football coach
Harry Austin Dame was an American football coach.
8. Albert I. Prettyman
1883-1963 (aged 80)
athlete
Albert Ira Prettyman was an American sports coach, athletics administrator, and educator. During his career, he coached many sports, including football, basketball, baseball, and track and field, but the majority of his work was in ice hockey. He spent most of his career at Hamilton College, where he served as athletic director from 1917 to 1946, head football coached from...
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9. W. T. Cook
1884-1970 (aged 86)
American football player
baseball player
basketball coach
William Thomas Cook was an American college sports coach. He was Davidson College's head football, men's basketball, baseball, and track and field coaches in the early 1900s. He compiled overall records of 5–9 (football), 0–1 (basketball), and 9–20 (baseball).
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10. Dexter W. Draper
1881-1961 (aged 80)
basketball coach
Dexter Wright Draper was an American college football player and coach, as well as a pediatrician. He was an All-American tackle at the University of Pennsylvania from 1905 to 1907. Draper became head football coach at the University of Texas immediately following the resignation of W. E. Metzenthin in 1909. After compiling a 4–3–1 record, including two losses to Longhorns...
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11. Mark Carron
1962-2025 (aged 63)
politician
Mark J. Carron was an American politician who represented the 6th Worcester District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007 and was a member of the Southbridge, Massachusetts Town Council from 1996 to 1999.
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12. Vaughn Blanchard
1889-1969 (aged 80)
athletics competitor
Vaughn Seavey Blanchard was an American track and field athlete who competed in the 110 m hurdles and in the exhibition baseball tournament at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He attended Bates College in Lewiston Maine and later became a well known physical education proponent in Michigan.
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13. Appleton Adams Mason
1880-1938 (aged 58)
basketball coach
athletics competitor
Appleton Adams Mason was an American college football and college basketball coach and physical education instructor. He served as the head football coach at Warrensburg Teachers College—now known as the University of Central Missouri—from 1908 to 1909, Tulane University from 1910 to 1912, and New York University (NYU) in 1918, compiling a career college football head coaching record of 15–23–4....
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14. Brian Campion
1970-. (aged 56)
politician
Brian Campion is a Vermont educator and politician. As a member of the Democratic Party, he represented Bennington in the Vermont Senate, where he served as a member of the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy, and was Chair of the Senate Committee on Education.
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15. Henri S. Rauschenbach
1947-. (aged 79)
politician
Henri S. Rauschenbach has served as a Massachusetts legislator and a high-ranking official in state government. He is on the Board of the Northeast Midwest Institute and the Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute.
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16. Fernando Picó
1941-2017 (aged 76)
historian
children's writer
Fernando Picó Bauermeister, S.J. was a Puerto Rican Jesuit, historian and academic. Picó was a leading expert on the history of Puerto Rico and was considered an authority on the island's 20th century history. One of his best known works, Historia General de Puerto Rico, is widely utilized in Puerto Rican history curricula. He was a professor of history at...
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17. Glenn Adams
1947-. (aged 79)
baseball player
Glenn Charles Adams is an American former designated hitter and corner outfielder in Major League Baseball. He played for the San Francisco Giants, Minnesota Twins, and Toronto Blue Jays in a career spanning eight seasons.
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18. David P. Valcourt
1951-. (aged 75)
David Paul Valcourt is a retired lieutenant general of the United States Army. He served as the Deputy Commanding General and Chief of Staff, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command from February 25, 2008, to May 3, 2010, after serving as Commanding General, Eight United States Army. He was previously the Commanding General of the Field Artillery Center and...
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19. Erin Pac
1980-. (aged 46)
bobsledder
Erin Pac is an American former bobsledder who competed from 2002 to 2010. She won two medals in the mixed bobsled-skeleton team event at the FIBT World Championships with a silver in 2007 and a bronze in 2008.
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20. Grace Diaz
1957-. (aged 69)
politician
Grace Diaz is an American politician who is a Democratic State Representative from Rhode Island representing District 11 in the city of Providence, Rhode Island. She was the first Dominican-American woman elected to state office in the history of the United States of America. When she was appointed vice-chair of the Rhode Island Democratic Party she became the first Latina...
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21. Leslie Mann
1892-1962 (aged 70)
basketball coach
baseball player
Leslie Mann was an American athlete and sports administrator. He played college football and professional baseball, and went on to coach football, baseball, and basketball. He was the founder and first president of the International Baseball Federation, the predecessor to the modern World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC).
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22. Roscoe Brown
1922-2016 (aged 94)
radio personality
academic
aircraft pilot
Dr. Roscoe Conkling Brown Jr. was one of the Tuskegee Airmen and a squadron commander of the 100th Fighter Squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group.
23. Guy Lowman
1877-1943 (aged 66)
basketball coach
baseball player
Guy Sumner Lowman was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and a player of baseball. He served as the head football coach at Warrensburg Teachers College—now the University of Central Missouri (1907), the University of Alabama (1910), Kansas State University (1911–1914), and the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1918). Lowman also coached basketball at Warrensburg Teachers College, now known as the...
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24. Nancy Darsch
1951-2020 (aged 69)
basketball coach
Nancy Darsch was an American women's basketball coach who worked at both the professional and NCAA Division I college levels. A native of Plymouth, Massachusetts, Darsch was a 1973 graduate of Springfield College. She also earned a master's degree in physical education from the University of Tennessee. Darsch was inducted into the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame on September...
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25. William Yorzyk
1933-2020 (aged 87)
swimmer
physician
William Albert "Bill" Yorzyk Jr. was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and one-time world record-holder.
26. Andrew Hatcher
1923-1990 (aged 67)
military personnel
Andrew Hatcher was an associate press secretary to President John F. Kennedy and a founder of 100 Black Men of America in 1963.
27. Harold Drew
1894-1979 (aged 85)
American football player
athletics competitor
basketball coach
Harold Delbert "Red" Drew was an American football, basketball, and track and field coach for over 40 years. He was the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team from 1947 to 1954, compiling a 54–28–7 record and leading the team to appearances in the Sugar, Orange and Cotton Bowls. He also served as an assistant football coach at...
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28. Paul E. Lefebvre
military officer
Paul E. Lefebvre is a retired United States Marine Corps major general who served as the third Commanding General of the Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command.
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29. Mark Banker
1956-. (aged 70)
screenwriter
American football player
American football coach
Mark John Banker is an American football coach. Banker last coached safeties at Washington State University from 2021 to 2022. He was previously the assistant head coach and inside linebackers coach at the University of Hawaii. Previously, he served the defensive coordinator of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, the Oregon State Beavers and the San Diego Chargers.
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30. John Quinlan
1974-. (aged 52)
bodybuilder
fitness model
professional wrestler
actor
John Joseph Quinlan nickname "Stoneface", is an American actor. He is a former junior bodybuilder, professional wrestler, fitness model, fashion model, art model and romance cover model. In 2012 he was an official image model and brand ambassador for the supplement company Nutrabolics. Quinlan starred in the film, A Sense of Purpose: Fighting For Our Lives (2019) by producer Jillian...
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31. Harold Amos
1918-2003 (aged 85)
university teacher
scientist
Harold Amos was an American microbiologist. He taught at Harvard Medical School for nearly fifty years and was the first African American department chair of the school.
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32. Craig Shirley
1956-. (aged 70)
writer
Craigan Paul Shirley is an American political consultant, lobbyist and author.
33. Charley Casserly
1948-. (aged 78)
association football coach
Charley Casserly is an American professional football analyst and former executive. Casserly was the general manager of the National Football League (NFL)'s Washington Redskins and Houston Texans, winning three Super Bowls with Washington.
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34. Garry St. Jean
1950-. (aged 76)
basketball coach
basketball player
Garry St. Jean is an American former professional basketball coach and executive.
35. Rick Blangiardi
1946-. (aged 80)
American football player
television executive
politician
Richard John Blangiardi is an American television executive and politician from Hawaii. Blangiardi was elected mayor of Honolulu in 2020 and took office on January 2, 2021. He previously worked in the television industry and helped consolidate KHNL and KGMB into Hawaii News Now. Blangiardi was reelected in 2024.
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36. Hyozo Omori
1876-1913 (aged 37)
educator
Hyozo Omori was a Japanese physical education specialist who studied in America and married the American artist Annie Barrows Shepley. In Japan, they established Yurin En (友隣園; House of the Friendly Neighbor), which was a settlement house and leader in the Japanese playground movement. Omori introduced basketball and volleyball to the country and was the team manager at the 1912...
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37. Boris Pash
1900-1995 (aged 95)
military personnel
Boris Theodore Pash was a United States Army military intelligence officer. He commanded the Alsos Mission during World War II and retired with the rank of colonel.
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38. William G. Morgan
1870-1942 (aged 72)
volleyball player
teacher
film editor
pedagogue
inventor
William George Morgan was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette", a name derived from the game of badminton which he later agreed to change to better reflect the nature of the sport. He was born in Lockport, New York, U.S.
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39. Don Ho
1930-2007 (aged 77)
actor
singer
songwriter
Donald Tai Loy Ho was an American traditional pop musician, singer, and entertainer. He is best known for the song "Tiny Bubbles" from the 1966 album of the same name.
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40. John Cena
1977-. (aged 49)
executive producer
rapper
professional wrestler
actor
John Felix Anthony Cena is an American actor, retired professional wrestler, writer, and former rapper. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all-time for WWE, he remains signed with the company as a brand ambassador as of December 2025. He is best known for his in-ring career from 2001 to 2025, where he is recognized by WWE...
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41. Donaldus Milford Payne
1934-2012 (aged 78)
teacher
politician
Donald Milford Payne Sr. was an American politician who was the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 10th congressional district from 1989 until his death in 2012. He was a member of the Democratic Party. The district encompassed most of the city of Newark, parts of Jersey City and Elizabeth, and some suburban communities in Essex and Union counties. He was...
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42. William C. Chasey
1940-2015 (aged 75)
writer
William Carmen "Bill" Chasey was an American philanthropist who was the founder and president of the Foundation for Corporate Social Responsibility (FCSR) in Warsaw, Poland. He was an educator, author, research scientist, and inventor who also served as a senior campaign advisor to President Ronald Reagan.
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43. Edward Junge Hickox
1878-1966 (aged 88)
basketball coach
basketball player
Edward Junge Hickox was an American basketball coach and administrator. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he coached the basketball team of Springfield College from 1926 to 1941, coached the American International College basketball team from 1944 to 1947, was a chairman of the National Basketball Rules Committee from 1945 to 1948, served on the board of directors of the Basketball Hall...
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44. Ralph Mitterling
1890-1956 (aged 66)
American football player
baseball player
basketball coach
Ralph "Sarge" Mitterling was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He played Major League Baseball as an outfielder for the Philadelphia Athletics during the 1916 season. He served in the US Army during World War I. Mitterling was the head football coach at Ursinus College from 1919 to 1920, at Susquehanna University in 1923, and at East...
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45. James Naismith
1861-1939 (aged 78)
cleric
head coach
basketball player
inventor
physician
James Naismith was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, and sports coach, best known as the inventor of the game of basketball.
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