E. Pratt King

{{Short description|American football player and coach}} {{Use American English|date=December 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox CFL biography | name = E. Pratt King | image = E Pratt King.png | caption = King pictured in ''Debris 1905'', Purdue yearbook | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | position1 = [[Head Coach]] | position2 = [[Guard (gridiron football)|Guard]] | playing_years1 = 1906 | playing_team1 = [[Massillon Tigers]] | high_school = [[Mercersburg Academy]] | College = [[Chicago Maroons football|Chicago]], [[Purdue Boilermakers football|Purdue]] | coaching_years1= 1907 | coaching_team1= [[Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football|Delaware]] |career_highlights= * [[Ohio League]] champion ([[1906 Massillon Tigers season|1906]]) }}

'''Ernest Pratt King''' was an American [[college football]] head coach who was [[Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football|Delaware football]] program's sixth head coach. He led them to an 0–5–1 overall record in 1907—his only season.

==College playing career== King played four years at [[Mercersburg Academy]]. He then attended the [[University of Chicago]], where he played for one season. He then spent the next three years playing at [[Purdue University]].<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Delaware Athletics|url=http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/handle/19716/9759/1908_05_Sports.pdf?sequence=5|publisher=University of Delaware|date=1909|accessdate=April 15, 2013|page=154}}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.purduesports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/080609aac.html|title=Purdue Football All-Time Letterwinners: From 1887-2009|accessdate=April 15, 2013|publisher=[[Purdue Boilermakers football|Purdue Boilermakers]]|archive-date=July 27, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727185201/http://www.purduesports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/080609aac.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Professional playing career== King was also a professional [[American football]] player with the [[Massillon Tigers]]. He was signed by the [[1906 Massillon Tigers season|Tigers in 1906]] to play in the [[Ohio League]] championship against the [[Canton Bulldogs]] in a two-game series. Massillon would go on to lose the first game of the series, 10–5, but won the second game (and the championship) by a score of 13–6 and clinched the 1906 league championship. However [[Canton Bulldogs-Massillon Tigers Betting Scandal|rumors of a gamblers fixing the game tainted the championship]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Blondy Wallace and the Biggest Football Scandal Ever |journal=PFRA Annual |publisher=Professional Football Researchers Association |volume=5 |year=1984 |pages=1–16 |url=http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/06-An-209.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204032937/http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/06-An-209.pdf |archivedate=December 4, 2013 }}</ref>

==Head coaching record== {{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subhead | name = [[Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football|Delaware]] | conf = Independent | startyear = 1907 | endyear = single }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = [[1907 college football season|1907]] | name = [[1907 Delaware football team|Delaware]] | overall = 0–5–1 | conference = | confstanding = | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Delaware | overall = 0–5–1 | confrecord = }} {{CFB Yearly Record End | overall = 0–5–1 | bowls = no | poll = no | polltype = | legend = no }}

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