Question: Facts:   - sport: football , basketball , baseball    - coach team: st. idaho saint louis gonzaga west seattle athletic club portland portland edward rockets lewis & clark gonzaga portland washington 's kenyon willamette washington -lrb- freshmen -rrb-    - player years: 1907 1908 -- 1910      - birth date: c. 1887    - coach sport: football basketball baseball    - caption: '' the archive 1928 '' , saint louis yearbook    - death date: 1 september 1947    - name: robert l. mathews    - death place: portland , oregon    - birth place: leadville , colorado    - player sport: football    - admin years: 1915 1937 -- 1944 -- 1921 1922 -- 1926 1929 -- 1930    - admin team: willamette idaho gonzaga portland    - player positions: back    - overall record: 3 -lrb- college basketball -rrb- 15 -- 3 -lrb- college baseball -- -rrb- 6 -lrb- afl -rrb- 8 -- 8    - alma mater: university of notre dame , 1911    - coach years: 1911 -- 1925 1926 -- 1927 1929 1931 -- 1932 1937 1912 -- 1942 1944 1945 -- 1946 1929 -- 1930 1942 -- -- 1943 1922 1914 1915 -- 1920 1921 1922    - player team: willamette notre dame    - cfbdwid: 1472    - image: robert l. mathews.png   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of robert l. mathews .
Answer:
robert lee `` matty '' mathews -lrb- c. 1887 -- september 1 , 1947 -rrb- was an american football player and coach .he was the head coach at st. edward 's college -lrb- 1911 -rrb- , kenyon college -lrb- 1912 -- 1914 -rrb- , willamette university -lrb- 1915 -- 1920 -rrb- , the university of idaho -lrb- 1922 -- 1925 -rrb- , saint louis university -lrb- 1926 -- 1927 -rrb- , gonzaga university -lrb- 1929 -rrb- , the university of portland -lrb- 1937 -- 1942 -rrb- , and lewis & clark college -lrb- 1945 -- 1946 -rrb- .born in leadville , colorado , mathews played college football at willamette university in salem , oregon , as a freshman then transferred to the university of notre dame in 1908 and played three seasons for the fighting irish in south bend , indiana .during his senior season in 1910 , future coaching legend knute rockne was a freshman end .in mathews ' four seasons at idaho , the vandals ' first years in the pacific coast conference , they won three consecutive rivalry games over palouse neighbor washington state .idaho lost the other , mathews ' first in 1922 , by a single point .the vandals made significant use of the forward pass under mathews , who was also the athletic director at idaho .he left moscow and the northwest in 1925 for st. louis for two seasons but did not coach during the 1928 season , and worked in private business in akron , ohio , until hired at gonzaga in june 1929 .after less than a year in spokane as athletic director and head coach in football and basketball , he resigned in april 1930 to pursue career options closer to the coast .mathews was also the head coach of the west seattle athletic club in 1931 and 1932 and of the american football league 's portland rockets in 1944 .in the 1930s , he supervised athletics for the civilian conservation corps -lrb- ccc -rrb- camps in the state of washington .he returned to college football in oregon at the university of portland in 1937 , where he was also athletic director .during world war ii , the school dropped...