I. NEWTON COWAN

Coach, Lansdale High School, 1933-1941

Baseball 2 yrs., Basketball 5 yrs. & Football 8 yrs.

Bux-Mont League Football Record; 43 wins - 13 losses - 5 ties

2 Bux-Mont League Football Championships 1937 & 1939

Undefeated 1937 Football Team; Enshrined NPAAA Hall of Fame 2005

1939 Bux-Mont League Football Co-Champions, Record 6-2

1934 and 1936 Bux-Mont League Football Runner Up

MVP & Most Improved Football Awards Named in His Honor

Supervising Principal Hatfield High School, 1951-1956

Attended Carnegie Mellon University, 1925-1928

Franklin & Marshall College, BS, Psychology, 1930

Temple University, M.Ed., Education, 1941

Temple University, Ed.D. Education Administration, 1956

INDUCTED 2013

Dr. I. Newton Cowan's football career was associated with several successful football programs both as a player and as a coach.

He started his football career with Lancaster High School in Lancaster, PA. In 1923 with Newt as the fullback, the Lancaster High School football team was undefeated and out scored it's opponents 393 to 15. That season Newt who scored 10 touchdowns also played guard on defense.

In college Newt was a member of the Carnegie Institute of Technology's (now known as Carnegie Mellon) football team. The greatest victory in Carnegie Tech's football history occurred on November 27, 1926, with Newt Cowan as the starting offensive and defensive right guard. That day on Forbes Field, Carnegie Tech was a heavy underdog to the renowned coached Knute Rockne's Notre Dame football team and its famous "Four Horsemen". The results were all for Carnegie Tech with a final score of Carnegie Tech 19 to Notre Dame's O. Dr. Cowan was named Honorable Mention All-American Football Carnegie Institute Starting Offensive Guard on the 1928 football Team that also defeated the 7-1 Notre Dame Team, Coached by Knute Rockne.

Following his graduation from Carnegie Tech in 1928, Newt taught school at Shadyside Academy and in 1929 he was the line coach for Franklin and Marshall. He then was the Athletic Director at Wesley College Institute in Dover, Delaware, before arriving at Lansdale High School in 1933 to teach Social Studies and coach football, basketball, and baseball. While at Lansdale High School, he was the head football coach for the undefeated and untied football squad of 1939.

In 1941, Newt Cowan became the Principal and Athletic Director at Upper Mooreland Township Schools. Later he was the Supervising Principal at Hatfield, the Superintendent of Schools at Palmra, NJ, and the Superintendent of schools at Roselle Park, NJ.

Dr. Cowan did post graduate studies at Franklin and Marshall College, Columbia University, and Temple University where he received his doctorate in 1956.

Dr. I Newton Cowan died in 1960 while he was the Superintendent of Schools at Roselle Park, NJ.