Edward Strong Merrill (June 20, 1879 – March 29, 1951) was an American track athlete, college football player and coach, and osteopathic physician.
[2] Merrill attended Beloit College in Wisconsin, starring in football, baseball, and track before graduating in 1902.
He resigned from his post as athletic coach at Occidental in the spring of 1907 and opened an osteropathic medicine practice with an office at the Bradbury Building in downtown Los Angeles.
[6] Merrill died on March 29, 1951, at his home in Los Angeles, at the age of 71.
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