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Aside from coaching, Harrold also played football for Franklin & Marshall College, from which he graduated from in 1889 and Princeton University, where he attended from 1890 until graduating in 1893.
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Anson Harrold
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He served as the first head football coach at the University of Pittsburgh, then known as Western University of Pennsylvania. He led the school to a 1–4 record in 1893. Outside football he worked as a design engineer for 15 years at Westinghouse Electric.
He also helped organize the Pittsburgh Transformer Company and worked there for three years.
He also became the President of the American Transformer Company, based in Newark, New Jersey. The couple had one daughter, Elisabeth.
Elisabeth married Jesse Gearing Johnson of Bridgton, New Jersey and they settled in Norfolk, Virginia. Harrold died on April 18, 1907 from tuberculosis.
He spent the last year of his life trying to regain his health, spending his last summer and fall in the woods of Maine and his last winter in Camden, South Carolina.
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