Edgar Ramey Wingard (September 21, 1878 – July 31, 1927) was an
American football
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,
basketball
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, and
baseball
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coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at seven different schools:
Ohio Northern University (1903),
Butler University (1904–1905), Western University of Pennsylvania—now known as the
University of Pittsburgh
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(1906),
Louisiana State University
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(1907–1908), the
University of Maine
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(1910–1911),
Susquehanna University
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(1916–1917, 1919, 1924–1925), and
Bucknell University
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(1918), compiling a career record of 74–38–6. In 1908, Wingard led his
LSU team to a record of 10–0. The team has been recognized as a
national champion by the National Championship Foundation, although LSU does not officially claim a national title that season. Wingard was the head coach of
the basketball team at Butler from 1904 to 1906 and the head coach of the first
LSU Tigers basketball
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team during the 1908–09 season. He coached the
LSU Tigers baseball
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team in 1908 and 1909 and the
baseball team at Maine in 1911. Wingard also coached the
LSU Tigers track and field
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History
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team from 1907 to 1909.
Wingard died of a cerebral hemorrhage in the summer of 1927 at a hospital in
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.
[("Gettysburg Rotarians will regret to learn of the death at Selinsgrove of Edgar R. Wingard, governor of the fifty-first district of Rotary International, from cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 48 years.")]
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1878 births
1927 deaths
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