Reginald D. Root

Reginald D. Root was an American football and men's lacrosse coach at Yale University. A native of Le Roy, New York, he graduated from Yale in 1926, and his English Wikipedia article calls him one of the best lacrosse players ever turned out by Yale; he also played college football for the Bulldogs as a backup tackle in 1924 and 1925. He was head coach of a football team at the National Autonomous University of Mexico beginning in 1929, then returned to Yale and was head football coach for the 1933 season with a record of 4 wins and 4 losses. He also coached Yale men's lacrosse in two stints, in 1929-1930 and 1930-1931 and again from 1936-1937 to 1942-1943, compiling a record of 42-27-1.