Hall of Fame
The late Harold C. Turner, Class of 1923, devoted his entire career to the coaching of sports and to teaching physical education. For 26 years he was a professor of physical education at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. He came to Knox in 1938 as head football coach. At Knox, he served as a swimming, track, and cross-country coach. He retired from the staff of Old Siwash in 1964. Before Mr. Turner entered college coaching at Knox, he coached for ten years at Maine Township High School and Waukegan High School, both in Illinois. His first coaching job after graduation from Coe was at Iowa Falls, Iowa. Football was his favorite sport as a student at Coe, although he was also on the track team. Mr. Turner was the center and the captain of the 1922 football team, which went undefeated in its seven-game schedule and scored 136 points to the opposition's 20. One of Coe's shutouts that season was delivered to Iowa State 20-0. Ironically, Captain Turner suffered a broken leg in the next to the last game of his senior year, a Coe victory over Knox, the college to which he would later devote so much of his life. Harold Turner died in 1974, but it is appropriate that on this day we present his name for induction into the Coe Athletic Hall of Fame posthumously in remembrance of a lifetime of service to young people through sports.
