{{Short description|American football coach and quarterback (died 1960)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox college coach | name = Timothy F. Larkin | image = Timothy Larkin.png | alt = | caption = Larkin pictured in ''The Boston Globe'', 1907 | birth_date = | birth_place = Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date|1960|01|14}} | death_place = | alma_mater = | player_years1 = 1902–1904 | player_team1 = Holy Cross | player_positions = Quarterback | coach_years1 = 1905 | coach_team1 = Milford HS (MA) | coach_years2 = 1905–1906 | coach_team2 = Worcester Academy (MA) | coach_years3 = 1907–1912 | coach_team3 = Holy Cross | overall_record = 18–25–8 (college) | bowl_record = | tournament_record = | championships = | awards = | coaching_records = }} '''Timothy Francis Larkin''' (died January 14, 1960) was an American football player and coach at the College of the Holy Cross.
==Personal life== Larkin was born in Worcester, Massachusetts to William and Honora (Dunleavy) Larkin. Larkin's brother, William J. Larkin, was a longtime newspaper editor in Worcester.<ref name="Fountain Head" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Nutt |first1=Charles |title=History of Worcester And Its People |date=1919 |publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Company |location=New York |page=136 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofworcest03nutt/page/136/mode/2up |access-date=11 February 2024}}</ref> Larkin married Gertrude Gallagher, a pianist and music teacher.<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Massachusetts |date=1916 |publisher=The American Historical Society |location=Boston |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KkMDAAAAYAAJ |access-date=11 February 2024}}</ref>
==Football== Larkin attended Worcester Classical High School, where he played two years at quarterback and was the coxswain on the school's rowing team in 1901.<ref name="Fountain Head" /><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Holy Cross Again Selects Larkin |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe/35565229/ |newspaper=The Boston Globe |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=December 10, 1907 |page=4 |accessdate=February 11, 2024 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref> He played quarterback for Holy Cross from 1902 to 1904 and was captain of the 1904 Holy Cross football team.<ref>{{cite news |title=With The College Athletes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YJY-AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA8 |access-date=11 February 2024 |work=Boston Evening Transcript |date=December 18, 1906}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Football Captains for the Season of 1904 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dBUbAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA14 |access-date=11 February 2024 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |date=December 23, 1903}}</ref>
In 1905, Larkin led Milford High School to a Midland League championship in his first season as head coach. He finished the season at the Worcester Academy and returned for the 1906 season.<ref name="Fountain Head" /> He served as the head football coach at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1907 to 1912 and compiled a 18-25-8.<ref name="Holy Cross" />
==Professional career and public service== Larkin followed his brother into journalism, working for the ''Worcester Gazette'', ''The Boston Globe'', ''The Springfield Union'', and the ''Associated Press''.<ref name="Fountain Head">{{cite news |title=Worcester The Fountain Head of Athletic Knowledge |work=The Boston Globe |date=July 11, 1909}}</ref> Larkin studied law at Boston University and earned a law degree in 1909.<ref name="Fountain Head" /><ref name="Holy Cross" />
From 1910 to 1912, Larkin was a member of the Worcester school committee.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nutt |first1=Charles |title=History of Worcester And Its People |date=1919 |publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Company |location=New York |page=699 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YnRKAAAAYAAJ |access-date=11 February 2024}}</ref> He was an inspector for Southbridge, Webster, and Worcester wards 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, & 10 during 1910 United States census and for Worcester Wards 4–8 during the 1915 Massachusetts census.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sawyer |first1=Herbert M. |title=The Census of 1910 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fXUWAAAAYAAJ |access-date=11 February 2024 |work=Worcester Magazine |date=July 1910}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Decennial Census 1915 |date=1918 |publisher=Wright & Potter Printing Co. |location=Boston |page=19 |url=https://archive.org/details/decennialcensus00gettgoog/page/18/mode/2up?q=%22Timothy+F.+Larkin%22 |access-date=11 February 2024}}</ref>
In 1923 and 1924, Larkin ran Camp Bristol, a boy's summer camp on Mount Hope Bay in Bristol, Rhode Island.<ref>{{cite news |title=Camp To Re-Open |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=APBgAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA9 |access-date=11 February 2024 |work=Evening Tribune |date=June 15, 1924}}</ref>
Larkin died on January 14, 1960.<ref name="Holy Cross">{{cite web |title=All Time Crusaders Head Coaches |url=https://static.goholycross.com/custompages/oldsite/sports/m-footbl/2009-10/files/09fb-history.pdf |website=Go Holy Cross |publisher=College of the Holy Cross |access-date=11 February 2024}}</ref>
==Head coaching record== ===College=== {{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subhead | name = Holy Cross | conf = Independent | startyear = 1907 | endyear = 1912 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1907 | name = Holy Cross | overall = 1–7–2 | conference = | confstanding = | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1908 | name = Holy Cross | overall = 4–4 | conference = | confstanding = | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1909 | name = Holy Cross | overall = 2–4–2 | conference = | confstanding = | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1910 | name = Holy Cross | overall = 3–3–2 | conference = | confstanding = | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1911 | name = Holy Cross | overall = 4–5 | conference = | confstanding = | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1912 | name = Holy Cross | overall = 4–3–1 | conference = | confstanding = | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Holy Cross | overall = 18–25–8 | confrecord = }} {{CFB Yearly Record End | overall = 18–25–8 | bowls = no | poll = no | polltype = | legend = no }}
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