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He then attended the University of Minnesota, and was initiated as a member of the Nu Sigma Nu professional medical fraternity on March 9, 1901.
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He then attended the University of Minnesota, and was initiated as a member of the Nu Sigma Nu professional medical fraternity on March 9, 1901.
He served as the head coach at the from 1904 to 1905. Kentucky amassed a 15–4–1 record during his tenure. A native of Minneapolis, Schacht joined the United States Army during the Spanish–American War and served with the 13th Minnesota Volunteers.
He played on the football team as a tackle in 1903, and the 216-pound Schacht was reportedly "a terror on offense." He starred in Minnesota"s 1903 victory over Wisconsin, but gained his greatest acclaim for his role in that season"s game against Michigan.
Schacht broke three ribs shortly before the game, but refused to go to the hospital and showed up beforehand with his body "encased in a steel harness." Despite the broken ribs, he carried the ball three times for 40-, 50- and 60-yard gains after the kickoff. Schacht received a Doctor of Medicine degree from Minnesota in 1903.
At graduation, he worked at the City Hospital in Minneapolis. Within a year Schacht soon moved to Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
From 1904 to 1905, he served as the head football coach at the During the first year of his tenure, a controversy erupted before the Thanksgiving Day game against bitter cross-town rival Transylvania University.
In it, he sarcastically wrote that Transylvania would allow Kentucky to draw players "from the four quarters of the earth and from the fifth quarter if you can find it gather them from all the tribes and kindred of the earth.. the more the merrier". The next day, the Herald published an article from the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Association titled "Protests Erased From Slate—Game Will Be Played" in which it declared the Transylvania players eligible. Kentucky struggled the following season, and was shut out, 82–0, by Saint Louis.
Controversy arose prior to the Thanksgiving rivalry against Transylvania when Kentucky again protested the eligibility of some opposing players.
This time, however, neither school could come to an agreement, and the game was cancelled altogether. Transylvania scheduled Ohio Wesleyan instead, while Kentucky held elections for the next year"s team captains and disbanded for the season.
Kentucky amassed a 15–4–1 record during his tenure. In 1905, he opened a drug store in Burlington, Washington.
After several months of illness, Schacht died at the Providence Hospital in Seattle on December 1, 1906 at the age of 31.
lieutenant was the opinion of the attending physicican that overtraining during his football career was responsible for a weakened heart that resulted in his death. Another account states that he died from Bright"s disease. Minnesota"s football coach Doctor Henry L. Williams denied suggestions that the death was the result of overtraining.
The contest ended in a tie, which made it the first game Michigan had not won in three years, with Schacht being "hailed throughout the west as the greatest tackle of a decade." After the season, he was named to several All-America teams: Caspar Whitney"s first team, Walter Camp"s second team, and Fielding H. Yost"s second team Kentucky won the game easily, 21–4.
Quotations: "Protests Erased From Slate—Game Will Be Played".
