- Otto Wagonhurst
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Otto Wagonhurst 
Wagonhurst passport photograph, 1915 Sport(s) Football Biographical details Born April 25, 1871 Place of birth Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania[1] Died June 15, 1932 (aged 61) Place of death Jackson, Michigan[2] Playing career 1892–1895
1898–1899
1900Penn
Duquesne C & A.C.
Homestead L & A.C.Position(s) Tackle Coaching career (HC unless noted) 1896
1897Alabama
IowaHead coaching record Overall 6–5 Statistics College Football Data Warehouse Accomplishments and honors Championships Pennsylvania circuit titles: 1898, 1899, 1900 Otman Franklin "Otto" Wagonhurst (April 25, 1871 – June 15, 1932) was an American football player and coach. Wagonhurst played college football as a left tackle at the University of Pennsylvania from 1892 to 1895. He served as the head football coach at the University of Alabama in 1896 and at the University of Iowa in 1897, compiling a career record of 6–5.[3] After coaching college football, he played professionally for Pittsburgh's Duquesne Country and Athletic Club and the Homestead Library and Athletic Club. He won championship titles with Duquesne in 1898[4] and 1899 and Homestead in 1900.[5] After his football career, he went on to become a railway executive.[1] He died in 1932 in Jackson, Michigan and was buried in Akron, Ohio.
Head coaching record
Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Alabama Crimson Tide (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1896) 1896 Alabama 2–1 1–1 Alabama: 2–1 1–1 Iowa Hawkeyes (Western Interstate University Football Association) (1897) 1897 Iowa 4–4 0–2 T–3rd Iowa: 4–4 0–2 Total: 6–5 References
- ^ a b "Elections and Appointments". Railroad Gazette, Volume 44. March 20, 1908. p. 428. http://books.google.ca/books?id=5OpQAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Otto+Franklin+Wagenhorst%22&dq=%22Otto+Franklin+Wagenhorst%22&hl=en&ei=F-qpTqKPBsioiQKgqvD1Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA.
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- ^ "Otto Wagonhurst Records by Year". College Football Data Warehouse. http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=2410.
- ^ PFRA Research. Stars Over All-Stars. Professional Football Researchers Association. pp. 1–5. http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Articles/Stars_Over_All_Stars.pdf.
- ^ PFRA Research. "The Worst Season Ever, Pittsburgh Pro Teams Find Hard Times: 1900". Coffin Corner (Professional Football Researchers Association) (Annual): 1–2. http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Articles/Worst_Season_Ever.pdf.
External links
Alabama Crimson Tide head football coaches E. B. Beaumont (1892) • Eli Abbott (1893–1895) • Otto Wagonhurst (1896) • Allen McCants (1897) • No team (1898) • W. A. Martin (1899) • M. Griffin (1900) • M. H. Harvey (1901) • Eli Abbott (1902) • W. B. Blount (1903–1904) • Jack Leavenworth (1905) • J. W. H. Pollard (1906–1909) • Guy Lowman (1910) • D. V. Graves (1911–1914) • Thomas Kelly (1915–1917) • No team (1918) • Xen C. Scott (1919–1922) • Wallace Wade (1923–1930) • Frank Thomas (1931–1942) • No team (1943) • Frank Thomas (1944–1946) • Harold Drew (1947–1954) • Jennings B. Whitworth (1955–1957) • Bear Bryant (1958–1982) • Ray Perkins (1983–1986) • Bill Curry (1987–1989) • Gene Stallings (1990–1996) • Mike DuBose (1997–2000) • Dennis Franchione (2001–2002) • Mike Shula (2003–2006) • Joe Kines # (2006) • Nick Saban (2007– )
Pound sign (#) denotes interim coach.Iowa Hawkeyes head football coaches No coach (1889–1891) • E. A. Dalton (1892) • Ben "Sport" Donnelly (1893) • Roger Sherman (1894) • No coach (1895) • Alfred E. Bull (1896) • Otto Wagonhurst (1897) • Alden Knipe (1898–1902) • John Chalmers (1903–1905) • Mark Catlin, Sr. (1906–1908) • John G. Griffith (1909) • Jesse Hawley (1910–1915) • Howard Jones (1916–1923) • Burt Ingwersen (1924–1931) • Ossie Solem (1932–1936) • Irl Tubbs (1937–1938) • Eddie Anderson (1939–1942) • Slip Madigan (1943–1944) • Clem Crowe (1945) • Eddie Anderson (1946–1949) • Leonard Raffensperger (1950–1951) • Forest Evashevski (1952–1960) • Jerry Burns (1961–1965) • Ray Nagel (1966–1970) • Frank Lauterbur (1971–1973) • Bob Commings (1974–1978) • Hayden Fry (1979–1998) • Kirk Ferentz (1999– )
Categories:- 1871 births
- 1932 deaths
- 19th-century players of American football
- Alabama Crimson Tide football coaches
- Duquesne Country and Athletic Club players
- Homestead Library & Athletic Club players
- Iowa Hawkeyes football coaches
- Penn Quakers football players
- American people in rail transportation
- People from Wayne County, Pennsylvania
- College football coaches first appointed in the 1890s stubs
- Alabama stubs
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