William Carl Melford(March 28, 1876 – January 12, 1962) 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 and coach. He served as the fourth head football coach at Washburn College—now known as

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—in

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and he held that position for the 1899 season. His coaching record at Washburn was 2–5–2.

Head coaching record

References

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