Byron Cummings

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Byron G. Cummings (September 20, 1860 – May 21, 1954) was an American archaeologist and university president. He is known as the dean of Southwestern archaeology. Cummings was the founding head of University of Arizona's Department of Archaeology (1915–1937), the school's ninth president (1927–1928), the Arizona State Museum's first director (1915–1938), and the founder of the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, which was established in 1916. Cummings was also a college football coach and professor at the University of Utah. He served as the head football coach at the University of Utah 1897 where he was also a professor from 1893 to 1915. He later served as a professor at the University of Arizona. Exploration he and his students conducted in SE Utah and NE Arizona, then almost unknown to Americans, resulted in the discoveries of the Natural Bridges that President Roosevelt declared as Natural Bridges National Monument in 1908. Cummings continued his explorations into Arizona, where he discovered Betatakin, Inscription House, and other famed cliff dwellings south and east of Navajo Mountain. On August 14, 1909, he led his party to the discovery of Rainbow Natural Bridge

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