Elwood Romney, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Elwood Romney

American basketball player-coach

Date of Birth: 28-May-1911

Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Date of Death: 24-Aug-1970

Profession: basketball player, basketball coach

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Elwood Romney

  • Elwood Snow "Woody" Romney (May 28, 1911 – August 24, 1970) was an American basketball player and coach.
  • He was an All-American at Brigham Young University (BYU) and later played semi-professionally.
  • After his playing days, Romney coached at the college level and worked in other high-profile sports endeavors. Romney, a forward from St.
  • George, Utah, starred at Dixie High School and played collegiately at Brigham Young from 1929–33.
  • Romney led the Cougars to a pair of Rocky Mountain Conference titles.
  • He was named a consensus All-American in 1931 and again made the Helms Athletic Foundation All-America team in 1932.
  • Romney scored 1,150 points in his BYU career.After the completion of his college career, Romney played semi-professional basketball with the Denver Athletic Club for two seasons.
  • He then coached collegiately, first at Western State College for the 1935-36 season (13-7 record), then at the Colorado School of Mines from 1936 to 1939 (9-45 record).
  • Romney was hired at Mines to also work in multiple sports, and during his tenure at Mines Romney also coached freshman football and was credited with creating a great deal of interest in intramural sports to where 300 students were taking part by the time he departed in 1939.
  • While living at Golden, Colorado Romney also sold automobiles and spearheaded the revival of the Golden Plunge, Golden's community swimming pool, formulating a business plan and leading the successful community effort to purchase and reopen it on July 4, 1938.
  • He owned and ran it successfully until selling it in October 1941.After leaving coaching, Elwood Romney remained active in sports in Colorado.
  • He was a key figure in founding the Western League, a minor-league baseball circuit, and served as league president.
  • He also owned the Denver Bears franchise.In personal life, Romney was married to Ruth Hafen on June 26, 1928.
  • They had three children: Jerry Elwood Romney, Janice Ruth Romney, and Jean Romney.
  • Elwood Romney was the son of Erastus Snow Romney and Roxie Maria Stowell and grandson of Miles Park Romney and Annie Marie Woodbury.
  • By this relation Elwood was a first cousin of George W.
  • Romney and is ancestral cousin of his son Mitt Romney.
  • Elwood Romney was inducted into the BYU Athletics Hall of Fame, the Helms Athletic Foundation Hall of Fame and the Utah Sports Hall of Fame.
  • He died on August 24, 1970.

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