basketball, track and football coach at the Stevens Point State Normal School, now known as the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. In three years at Stevens Point, Corneal's basketball teams compiled a record of 22–12, including an 11–2 record during the 1916–17 season. In September 1917, when Corneal accepted a position in Ohio, the move was front page news in Stevens Point. The Stevens Point Daily Journal wrote:"He came here three years ago and conducted the Normal athletics in a successful manner. Stevens Point under him has had football teams which each year made a bid for the conference championship. He has also had charge of the physical work among the boys. His loss will be a serious one here ..." Lakewood High School In September 1917, Corneal moved from Stevens Point, Wisconsin to Lakewood, Ohio. He was hired as the athletic director, football coach, basketball coach and track coach at Lakewood High School. Corneal stepped down as the school's football coach in 1935, but he remained the track for 27 years from coach from 1917 to 1944. He was also the cross country coach from 1928 through 1943. In his obituary, the Associated Press noted that "Corneal was famed for his powerful cinder path teams which dominated northern Ohio track circles for many years." His teams won five Ohio state track titles and three Ohio state cross country titles. He coached 51 individual state track meet winners and one state cross country meet winner. Several of his teams won national honors, and his athletes broke the world schoolboy record for the mile relay in 1925, the world schoolboy medley record in 1929, and the national two mile relay record in 1930. During his tenure at Lakewood, Corneal also founded the Lakewood Relays in 1922 and served as the meet's director. Corneal has been inducted into the Lakewood Hall of Fame. He also served as the vice president of the Ohio Association of Track Coaches, and was posthumously inducted into that organization's Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class in 1969. Family and death In July 1912, Corneal married Rachel V. Abott at Bon Homme County, South Dakota. They had a son, George A. Corneal, born in approximately 1916 in Wisconsin. Corneal died in 1944 following an illness of several months. Head coaching record College football References External links 1883 births 1944 deaths Basketball coaches from Pennsylvania Chicago Maroons