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American sports coach and biologist (1873–1947) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wynfred Emory Allen (June 6, 1873 – September 20, 1947) was an American football and basketball coach and biologist. He served as the head football coach at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana from 1896 to 1897,[1] Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin in 1903, and Kearney State Normal School—now known as the University of Nebraska–Kearney–from 1905 to 1906. Allen was also the head basketball coach at Kearney State in 1906–07.[2]
Biographical details | |
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Born | West Newton, Indiana, U.S. | June 6, 1873
Died | September 20, 1947 74) Santa Paula, California, U.S. | (aged
Alma mater | Earlham (1898) |
Playing career | |
Football | |
1894–1895 | Springfield YMCA |
1896–1897 | Earlham |
Basketball | |
c. 1895 | Springfield YMCA |
Baseball | |
c. 1895 | Springfield YMCA |
Position(s) | Fullback, guard (football) Center (basketball) |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1896–1897 | Earlham |
1898 | West Texas Military |
1903 | Lawrence |
1904 | Epworth |
1905–1906 | Kearney Normal |
Basketball | |
1906–1907 | Kearney Normal |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 2–2 (college basketball) |
In 1910, Allen served as an assistant zoology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and from 1919 to 1943, he worked as a biologist at the Scripps Institution for Biological Research.[3]
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Earlham Quakers (Independent) (1896–1897) | |||||||||
1896 | Earlham | 3–3 | |||||||
1897 | Earlham | 2–4 | |||||||
Lawrence: | 5–7 | ||||||||
Lawrence Vikings (Independent) (1903) | |||||||||
1903 | Lawrence | 6–3 | |||||||
Lawrence: | 6–3 | ||||||||
Epworth Methodists (Independent) (1904) | |||||||||
1904 | Epworth | ||||||||
Epworth: | |||||||||
Kearney Normal Antelopes (Independent) (1905–1906) | |||||||||
1905 | Kearney Normal | 0–5–1 | |||||||
1906 | Kearney Normal | 3–4–2 | |||||||
Kearney Normal: | 3–9–3 | ||||||||
Total: |
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