John Calvin Whitehead (September 7, 1924 – January 19, 2002) was an
American football
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at e ...
coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at
Lehigh University
Lehigh University (LU), in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, is a private university, private research university. The university was established in 1865 by businessman Asa Packer. Lehigh University's undergraduate programs have been mixed ...
from 1976 to 1985, compiling a record of 75–38–2. His 1977 team at Lehigh won the
NCAA Division II Championship and his 1979 was the runner-up in the
NCAA Division I-AA Championship playoffs. Whitehead was born on September 7, 1924, in
Summit Hill, Pennsylvania
Summit Hill is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 3,034 at the 2010 census.
Summit Hill was the western terminus of the United States' second operational railwa ...
. He died on January 20, 2002.
Head coaching record
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1924 births
2002 deaths
Lehigh Mountain Hawks athletic directors
Lehigh Mountain Hawks football coaches
High school football coaches in New York (state)
High school football coaches in Pennsylvania
East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania alumni
Sportspeople from Carbon County, Pennsylvania
Coaches of American football from Pennsylvania
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