Edward Michael Bennis (July 30, 1885 – May 8, 1936) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He served as the head football coach at Villanova College—now known as Villanova University—in 1916, compiling a record of 1–8. Bennis was also the head coach for the Saint Joseph's Hawks men's basketball team for one season (1910–11) and finished with a 6–6 record. In addition to coaching the basketball team, he was also hired in 1909 to coach the St Joe's football team. Bennis was a standout football player at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Penn in 1906.
Bennis later worked in the income tax division of the Internal Revenue Bureau and then as a real estate assessor. He was active in Democratic Party politics in Philadelphia. Bennis died on May 8, 1936, at Germantown Hospital in Philadelphia.[1]
