A. Austin Tate

Albert Austin Tate, known as Austy, was an American football player and coach who lived from February 14, 1894 until August 7, 1943. He was an alumnus of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, from the class of 1917, and he later returned there as a coach. He served as the seventeenth head football coach at Lehigh from 1928 to 1933, a six season spell in which his teams won 18, lost 33 and tied 3. Before that he had coached at nearby Bethlehem High School for six seasons, from 1921 to 1926. He later led the football program at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania from 1936 to 1939. Across his college head coaching career his record was 23 wins, 58 losses and 4 ties. He died unexpectedly in Bethlehem on August 7, 1943, at the age of 49.