Harlan Disberry McChesney (June 12, 1895 – March 12, 1954) was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Kansas State Normal School—now known as Emporia State University— in 1918 and at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin from 1920 to 1922, compiling a career college football coaching record of 20–5–1.[1] McChesney was also the head basketball coach at Kansas State Normal for one season, in 1916–17, and at Lawrence from 1920 to 1923, tallying a career college basketball coaching record of 28–18.
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 12, 1895 Burlington, Iowa, U.S. |
| Died | March 12, 1954 (aged 58) Roy, Utah, U.S. |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1918 | Kansas State Normal |
| 1920–1922 | Lawrence |
| Basketball | |
| 1916–1917 | Kansas State Normal |
| 1920–1923 | Lawrence |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 20–5–1 (football) 28–18 (basketball) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Football 1 Midwest Conference (1922) | |
McChesney was a veteran of the Iowa National Guard.[2] He died in Utah of a cerebral hemorrhage 1954.
Head coaching record
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edit| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas State Normal (Independent) (1918) | |||||||||
| 1918 | Kansas State Normal | 2–2 | |||||||
| Kansas State Normal: | 2–2 | ||||||||
| Lawrence Vikings (Independent) (1920–1921) | |||||||||
| 1920 | Lawrence | 7–1 | |||||||
| 1921 | Lawrence | 5–2 | |||||||
| Lawrence Vikings (Midwest Conference) (1922) | |||||||||
| 1922 | Lawrence | 6–0–1 | 2–0–1 | T–1st | |||||
| Lawrence: | 18–3–1 | 2–0–1 | |||||||
| Total: | 20–5–1 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth | |||||||||
References
edit- ^ Emporia State University Archived September 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Football Media Guide
- ^ Emporia Weekly Gazette, February 7, 1918, Emporia, Kansas
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