Elwood Otto "Woody" Wagenhorst (June 3, 1863 – February 12, 1946) was an
American football
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and
baseball
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player and coach. He played
Major League Baseball
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as a
third baseman
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for the
Philadelphia Quakers in . In two career games, he had one hit in eight at-bats. Wagenhorst served as the head football coach at the
University of Pennsylvania
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from 1888 to 1891, compiling a record of 39–18.
Biography
Wagenhorst was born in
Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania
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History
Gouldsboro wa ...
in 1863. He played baseball and football while attending
Princeton University
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(then known as the College of New Jersey). At the time of his graduation from Princeton, on June 8, 1888, he debuted at
third base
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for the
Philadelphia Quakers in the
National League
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. After playing in only two games, Wagenhorst soon accepted an invitation to become coach of Penn's second paid football team, succeeding
Frank Dole
Frank Fessenden Dole (December 25, 1859 – May 22, 1939) was an American college football coach, dog breeder, and journalist. He was the first head football coach at the University of Pennsylvania, serving from 1885 to 1887, and leading the Penn ...
. For his coaching duties, Wagenhorst was paid $275.
In the fall of 1888 as Wagenhorst served the Penn football team as its coach, trainer and he even played
end
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briefly that season. In 1889, while coaching at Penn, Wagenhorst enrolled in Law School. As a Penn law student, Wagenhorst also became third-baseman and captain of the school's 1890 and 1891 baseball teams.
After graduating in 1892, he became a private secretary for a
Republican
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member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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from
Pennsylvania
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and later
Mayor of Philadelphia
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as stipulated by the Charter of the City of Philadelphia. The current mayor of Philadelphia is Jim Kenney.
History
The first mayor of Philadelphia, ...
,
John E. Reyburn
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. Wagenhorst later practiced law in
Washington D. C.
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until his death in 1946.
University of Pennsylvania archives
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Head coaching record
References
External links
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1863 births
1946 deaths
19th-century baseball players
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Princeton Tigers baseball players
Princeton Tigers football players
Major League Baseball third basemen
Minneapolis Millers (baseball) players
St. Paul Apostles players
University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni
People from Wayne County, Pennsylvania
Players of American football from Pennsylvania
Baseball players from Pennsylvania