Maurice Post

Life & Legacy

Maurice Eaton Post (July 3, 1882 – August 7, 1974) was an American and educator and football and baseball coach . He was the head football coach at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan for one season, in 1906, compiling a record of 1–3–1.
Post was captain of the Kalamazoo football team in 1905. He was also captain of Kalamazoo's baseball team, on which he played as a catcher.
In 1906, Post was appointed to coach the football team at Plainwell High School in Plainwell, Michigan. He left Plainwell later that fall to coach at Kalamazoo. The follow spring, he coached the baseball team at Western State Normal School—now known as Western Michigan University. In 1908, Post was teaching science at the high school in Cass City, Michigan.
Post moved to La Conner, Washington, in 1909, to become the principal and coach at the high school there. He later taught and coached football and baseball in Olympia, Washington and Walla Walla, Washington. In 1914, he was hired to teach science and coach baseball at Stadium High School in Tacoma, Washington. In 1920, he was appointed head of the science program for the school district in Berkeley, California. He retired from the Berkeley school system in the late 1940s. Post died on August 7, 1974, at a hospital in Walnut Creek, California, following a brief illness.