Edgar Lee Walker
(March 25, 1901 – June 16, 1972) was an
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
player, coach of football and
basketball
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, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the
University of Mississippi
The University of Mississippi (byname Ole Miss) is a public research university that is located adjacent to Oxford, Mississippi, and has a medical center in Jackson. It is Mississippi's oldest public university and its largest by enrollment.
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(Ole Miss) from 1930 to 1937, compiling a record of 38–38–8. Walker was also the head basketball coach at Ole Miss from 1930 to 1935, tallying a mark of 46–36.
During
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, Walker served in the
United States Army Air Forces
The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and ''de facto'' aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II ...
and coached was head coach of the
1945 Second Air Force Superbombers football team.
Head coaching record
Football
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1901 births
1972 deaths
American football ends
American football halfbacks
Basketball coaches from Louisiana
Columbia Lions football coaches
Ole Miss Rebels athletic directors
Ole Miss Rebels football coaches
Ole Miss Rebels men's basketball coaches
Second Air Force Superbombers football coaches
Stanford Cardinal football coaches
Stanford Cardinal football players
People from Jonesboro, Louisiana