Daniel Meenan
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1893 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | May 14, 1950 (aged 58) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1912–1914 | Columbia |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1925–1934 | Columbia |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 99–70 (.586) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| As a player 2× Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League champion (1912, 1914) NCAA Men's Basketball All-American (1914) As a coach 3× Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League champion (1926, 1930, 1931) | |
Daniel Leo Meenan Jr. was an American basketball coach and speech pathologist who was the head men's basketball coach at Columbia University from 1925 to 1933 and the head of the Post-Laryngectomy Speech Clinic at the Columbia–Presbyterian Medical Center from 1944 to 1950.
Basketball
He was a starting guard for the Columbia Lions men's basketball team from 1912 to 1914. He was a member of the Columbia squad that won the 1912 Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League and was captain of the 1914 team that was league co-champions with Cornell.[1] He was retroactively named a 1914 NCAA Men's Basketball All-American by the Helms Athletic Foundation.[2]
After graduating, Meenan worked in the aircraft industry, first with the Sloan Company, then with the Standard Aero company.[3]
In 1925, Meenan was named head coach of his alma mater. He had no professional coaching experience, but had volunteered as an assistant at Columbia and Manhattan.[1] Meenan led Columbia to three Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League championships (1926, 1930, 1931).[4] He resigned in 1934 to work on Wall Street.[5]
Speech pathology
In 1943, Meenan's larynx was removed due to cancer. He learned to speak without a larynx in six months and became the head of the Post-Laryngectomy Speech Clinic at the Columbia–Presbyterian Medical Center in 1944. During World War II, he worked with veterans who had lost their vocal cords at the Veterans Administration clinic at the City College of New York. He died on May 14, 1950 of arteriosclerosis at Lenox Hill Hospital.[5]
References
- ^ a b "Meenan To Coach Columbia Quintet". The New York Times. October 21, 1925.
- ^ The Association for Professional Basketball Research "NCAA All-American Teams, 1919–20 to 1998–99"
- ^ Hughes, Charles Evans (1919). Abstract of Aircraft Investigation. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office. p. 208. Retrieved April 25, 2025.
- ^ "Daniel Meehan (sic)". SRCBB. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 25, 2025.
- ^ a b "Daniel Meenan, 58, Columbia Ex-Coach". The New York Times. May 15, 1950.