Walter Edwin McCornack (January 22, 1875 – June 30, 1939) 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, and lawyer. He served as the head football coach at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

from 1901 to 1902 and at

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

from 1903 to 1905, compiling a career

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record of 41–8–5. McCornack's record at Northwestern was 26–5–4. His winning percentage of .800 is the highest in

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program history.

Early life and career

McCornack was born in

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on January 22, 1875. He attended Chicago's Englewood High School before entering Dartmouth with the class of 1897. At Dartmouth, McCornack played football and baseball and was the captain of the football team in 1895 and 1896. McCornack graduated from Dartmouth in 1897 an earned an LLB from Northwestern in 1899. He worked as a lawyer for the

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. McCornack died at his home in Chicago on June 30, 1939.

Head coaching record

College

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