Ted Payseur

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Ted Payseur
Biographical details
BornDecember 31, 1901
Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S.
DiedJune 1982 (age 80)
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1945–1956Northwestern

Theodore Barton Payseur (December 31, 1901 – June 1982) was an American basketball player and coach and athletic director. He attended Drake University, where he was a member of the basketball and golf teams. He was the leading scorer in basketball in the Missouri Valley Conference for two years. He graduated from Drake in 1922 and worked as a football, basketball and track coach at Dubuque High School from 1923 to 1926. He was hired by Northwestern University in 1926 and over the next 19 years held positions as freshman basketball coach, intramural director, business manager and assistant basketball coach. In 1945, he was hired as Northwesterna's athletic director, a position he held until 1956.[1][2] In 2005, he was inducted into The Des Moines Register Iowa Sports Hall of Fame.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Ted Payseur Is Named Northwestern Director". The Milwaukee Journal. April 25, 1945.
  2. ^ "Payseur To Head Wildcat Athletics". Toledo Blade. April 25, 1945.
  3. ^ Maury White (July 8, 2005). "Ted Payseur, Des Moines, 1981". The Des Moines Register.