Ted Youngling, Coached Football At Duke, Oklahoma & VPI And In The CPL
Bill Schenley
FROM: Westport (CT) Now ~
Theodore W. Youngling, a longtime Westporter who served on the Board of
Education, the Representative Town Meeting, and the Parks and
Recreation Commission and coached local football, died Wednesday at a
Fairfield convalescent home. He was 81.
Youngling, who also had a home in Naples, Fla., died of complications
from end stage Alzheimer's Disease, according to the Harding Funeral
Home.
Born in Freeport, N.Y., June 11, 1925 son of the late Louis S. and Nell
Webster Youngling, Youngling has been a resident of Westport for the
past 40 years. He was co-founder and operator of Connecticut
Temporaries in Stamford for 20 years.
During World War II, Youngling served on a destroyer in the Pacific as
a gunnery officer until the close of the war. Following the war, he
attended and graduated from the University of Delaware where he
participated in intercollegiate football, baseball and wrestling.
In 1950, he was recalled to active duty and served two years on the
aircraft carrier Tarawa as fire control officer and senior watch
officer.
After his discharge from the Korean War, Youngling joined the football
staff at Duke University as a graduate assistant under Bill Murray.
Following his marriage, he coached for one year at Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and then spent three years on the football staff of Bud
Wilkinson at the University of Oklahoma where they were two-time
national champions.
He spent one season coaching the Edmonton Eskimo Football Club of the
Canadian Professional League.
Youngling returned to Duke as offensive line coach in 1959, and stayed
until 1963. They won the Cotton Bowl in 1961. When he moved to Westport
in 1966, he volunteered his coaching services to Pop Warner Football
and then to Staples High School as an assistant coach.
Youngling served on the Westport Recreation Commission from 1974 to
1978, on the RTM from 1978 thru 1986, and from 1986 thru 1994 he served
on the Board of Education.
Youngling was also an Emergency Medical Technician and charter member
of the Westport Volunteer Emergency Medical Service.
Survivors in addition to his wife of 52 years, Corrine, include one
son, Theodore A. Youngling and his wife Mary of Westport; three
daughters, Eleanor Hull and her husband Skip of Warwick, .I., Dr. Anne
Youngling and her partner Renee Seufert of Westport and Elizabeth
Youngling and her husband Arthur Swanberg of Redding, Calif.; two
brothers, George Youngling of Hillsborough, Calif, Louis Youngling of
Brighton, Mich., eight grandchildren, Benjamin and Corinne Hull,
Theodore Webster II, Katherine and Elizabeth Youngling, Andrew and
Nicholas Youngling, and Brandon Swanberg, as well as many nieces and
nephews.
The family will receive friends in the Harding Funeral Home, 210 Post
Road. East on Sunday from 3 to 6 pm.
All are invited to attend a Mass of Christian Burial on Monday at 11
a.m. at Assumption Church (directly), 98 Riverside Ave. Interment with
full military honors will be private.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in Youngling's name may be
made to Elderhouse Inc, 7 Lewis St., Norwalk, CT 06851 or Millennium
House, 8951 Bonita Beach Road, Bonita Springs, Fla., 34135.