Glenn Killinger College coach

William Glenn Killinger (September 13, 1898 – July 25, 1988) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He letter in three sports at Pennsylvania State University, where he was an All-American in football in 1921. Killinger then played in the National Football League for the Canton Bulldogs and the New York Giants and for Philadelphia Quakers of the first American Football League in 1926. Killinger served as the head football coach at Dickinson College (1922), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1927–1931), Moravian College (1933), West Chester University of Pennsylvania (1934–1941, 1945–1959), and with the North Carolina Pre-Flight School (1944), compiling a career college football record of 176–72–16. He was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1971.Killinger was also a minor league baseball player from 1922 until 1932. During that time, he played for the Jersey City Skeeters (1922), Atlanta Crackers (1923), Harrisburg Senators (1924, 1927–1928), Shamokin Indians (1926) and the Williamsport Grays (1929–1932). He served as a manager for the Indians and the Senators.

Personal facts

Glenn Killinger
Alias (AKA)Killinger William Glenn; Killinger W. Glenn
Birth dateSeptember 13, 1898
Birth place
Harrisburg Pennsylvania
Date of deathJuly 25, 1988

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coached team
Moravian College
Harrisburg Senators
Dickinson College
Penn State Nittany Lions football
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
West Chester Golden Rams
Wilkes-Barre Barons
Williamsport Grays
North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football
Shamokin Indians
overall record
176–72–16 (college football)
59–29–2 (college baseball)
66–40 (college basketball)

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