Harry Edgar Trout (April 4, 1876 – January 11, 1941) was an American football coach.
[1] Trout was the first coach at West Virginia to record a victory over rival Washington and Jefferson College with a 6–0 win on November 26, 1903.
The game marked not only the first victory over Washington and Jefferson, but the first time after nine attempts West Virginia had managed to score against the "Presidents".
[2] Trout graduated from Lafayette College in 1903 and married Jane McBride of Portland, Oregon in January 1913 at Chicago.
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