[1] Holmes graduated from the University of Sioux Falls and coached football for two years at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri.
Holmes was hired as physical director at Middlebury in 1915, succeeding Ray Fisher.
[3] In 1918, Holmes was appointed as athletic director for military training camps in the vicinity of Austin, Texas.
There he was the owner of the Tulsa Monument Company, until retiring in 1956, and a member of the board of directors of the Morris Plan Bank and Security Federal Savings & Loan Association.
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