Red Barr
Barr in c.1971 | |
| Biographical details | |
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| Born | August 14, 1908 Avon, Ohio, US |
| Died | June 12, 1971 (aged 62) El Paso, Texas, US |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College 1930 |
| Playing career | |
| 1926-30 | Oberlin |
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| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1930–1940 |
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| 1936–1942 |
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| 1947–1971 | Head Coach SMU |
| 1963 |
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| 1968 | U.S. Olympic Team Alternate Coach |
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Alfred "Red" Barr (August 14, 1908 – June 12, 1971) was an American Hall of Fame swim coach for Southern Methodist University (SMU). He coached the Southern Methodist swimming team for twenty-four years from 1947 through 1971, where he led the Mustangs to seventeen Southwestern Conference Championships, including fifteen consecutive championships from 1957 through 1971.
Barr was born on August 14, 1908, to Bertha May Walker and William James Barr in the small community of Avon, Ohio, outside Cleveland, where he attended Avon High School and graduated in 1926. Demonstrating a high level of academic achievement, he was the valedictorian of his High School class.
He attended Oberlin College, graduating in 1930 with an A.B. degree. Though he was not involved in competitive swimming, he lettered in the sports of both basketball and baseball, captaining Oberlin College's 1929-30 basketball team, and playing third-base on the 1930 baseball team. He received a master's degree from New York University in 1937.