Paul Davis (minors02)

Paul Jones Davis

• School Dickinson College

• Born February 19, 1881 in Williamsburg, VA USA
• Died April 26, 1947 in Blossburg, PA USA

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Biographical Information

PaulDavis was a first baseman whose baseball career carried him from Dickinson College into professional baseball and then into college coaching. At Dickinson, he was elected captain of the 1905 football team, and he also captained both the football and baseball teams while a student. After graduation he returned to coach at his alma mater and then spent several seasons in professional baseball.

His professional baseball career included the New London Whalers of the Connecticut State League, Uniontown Coal Barons in the Pennsylvania-Ohio-Maryland League then the Tri-State League, the Altoona Mountaineers, York White Roses, and Lancaster Red Roses, the Wilkes-Barre Barons and Elmira Colonels in the New York State League, and finally the Greensboro Patriots of the North Carolina State League.

In the autumn of 1909 Davis went to Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College as director of athletics. He coached the school baseball team from 1909 through 1915. After leaving Stillwater he worked at North Dakota Agricultural College, served as athletic director at Camp Zachary Taylor during the First World War, and continued a long career in education and athletics that later included Mansfield State Teachers College.

Born in Williamsburg, VA, Davis was a Dickinson graduate and remained closely identified with college athletics for the rest of his life. He died at Blossburg Hospital on April 26, 1947, after a long illness.