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Wesley "Moose" Theodore Englehorn (January 21, 1890 – September 3, 1993) was an American
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player and coach.


Career

Englehorn was born on January 21, 1890, to Herman and Emma Lenz, Englehorn attended Spokane High School, where he played
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,
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, and
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. While a junior, he was reportedly recruited by
Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
to play football. Englehorn declined Princeton and instead played for two years for the All-Star Pacific Northwest basketball and football teams. Englehorn chose to attend
Washington State College Washington State University (Washington State, WSU, or informally Wazzu) is a public land-grant research university with its flagship, and oldest, campus in Pullman, Washington. Founded in 1890, WSU is also one of the oldest land-grant univer ...
, where he played football for the
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. After one year there, he transferred to
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 ...
, where he played tackle for two years for the Big Green. In 1912, Englehorn was selected as a consensus pick for the
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. Englehorn was elected team captain for the 1913 season, but was declared ineligible due to a "three-year rule". Instead, he and
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served as a team assistants, under coach Frank Cavanaugh, in 1913. Englehorn ultimately graduated from Dartmouth in 1914. In 1914, Englehorn was hired as the head coach at the
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in
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. During his tenure at Case, in 1915, he married Viola S. Snead (1892-1978), with whom he had two children: Mary Louise (1917-1987) and Jane (1921-2001). In 1917, Englehorn was hired as an assistant and line coach for
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, under coach
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. Three years later, Englehorn reunited with coach Cavanaugh, instead as an assistant for
Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...
. In 1921, Englehorn was hired as the head coach at
Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher educatio ...
. Just a year later, he announced his retirement from coaching, and was replaced by
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. Prior to his death on September 3, 1993, at the age of 103, Englehorn was living at Stapeley Hall, a
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in
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, and at the time, was the oldest living All-American college football player. He was buried at Chapel of the Chimes in
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.


Head coaching record


See also

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