Elmer Schroeder


Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1920. 

Personal Information

Class of 1951
Born: February 25, 1898 - Philadelphia, PA
Died:  February 21, 1953 - Philadelphia, PA

Manager of the Philadelphia Americans when they captured the National Challenge Cup in 1936, National Amateur Cup in 1933 and 1934, American League pennant in 1935, 1943, 1944, 1947 and 1948, and the Lewis Cup in 1941 and 1943. President of the USFA in 1933 and 1934 after serving as vice president from 1927. President of the American League from 1939 to 1942. Represented the USFA at the first World Cup in Montevideo in 1930, managed the U.S. World Cup team in Italy in 1934, the Olympic team in Amsterdam in 1928 and in Berlin in 1936, and the national team in Mexico in 1937. He received an award from the Hungarian Football Federation in 1931, for services to international affairs, and from the German government in 1937 for aid in making American participation in the 1936 Olympics possible. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1920.

 

 

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