Background
Theron Upson Lyman was born September 7, 1869 in Alden, Iowa. His father C. N. Lyman was a long-time reverend of Onawa.
Theron Upson Lyman was born September 7, 1869 in Alden, Iowa. His father C. N. Lyman was a long-time reverend of Onawa.
He was also the chief examiners of claims of the Travelers Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut. lieutenant is said Theron spent time at Yale University. Grinnell
Lyman played for Iowa College (later named Grinnell College), in Grinnell, Iowa from 1888 to 1891.
= 1891 He was the coach of the team as well in 1891, in addition to coaching Nebraska.
One account reads "Iowa had an eleven and had a coach, and wanted to play the upstarts from across the Missouri River..So, with a magnanimity seldom equaled in the game"s history, Iowa lent its coach, T. U. Lyman, to tutor the Nebraskans."
Wisconsin
Lyman was a prominent quarterback for the Wisconsin Badgers football team He was captain every year he played.
= 1893 Parke H. Davis was coach in 1893. = 1894 Lyman transferred to Wisconsin in order to defeat Minnesota, which he finally did in 1894.
