Horace James "Horse" Hendrickson (August 24, 1910 – May 22, 2004) 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 wi ...

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

and

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player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at

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from 1937 to 1941 and at North Carolina State University from 1952 to 1953, compiling a career college football record of 35–28–1. From 1937 to 1941, Hendrickson coached at

, where he compiled a 31–12–1 record. His best season came in 1941, when his team went 8–1. For much of the 1940s, he was an assistant coach at the

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. From 1952 to 1953, he coached at North Carolina State University, where he compiled a 4–16 record. Hendrickson played football, basketball and baseball at Duke University. He then served as director of athletics at

, and coached football, baseball and basketball from 1937 to 1942. In 1942, he moved to the

replacing

Howard Odell Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old French Huard (or Houard) from a Germanic source similar to Old High German ''*Hugihard'' "heart-brave", or ''*Hoh-ward'', literally "high defender; chief guardian". It is also probabl ...

as the backfield coach on the football team.

Family

Hendrickson was married to Gene Fulton Swartz of

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on June 18, 1938. The couple had two sons: Richard Fulton and James Alva.

Head coaching record

Football

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