Edgar Wingard
Introduction
Edgar Ramey Wingard (September 21, 1878 – July 31, 1927) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at seven different schools: Ohio Northern University (1903), Butler University (1904–1905), Western University of Pennsylvania—now known as the University of Pittsburgh (1906), Louisiana State University (1907–1908), the University of Maine (1910–1911), Susquehanna University (1916–1917, 1919, 1924–1925), and Bucknell University (1918), compling a career record of 77–39–5. In 1908, Wingard led his LSU team to a record of 10–0. The team has been recognized as a national champion by the National Championship Foundation, although LSU does not officially claim a national title that season. Wingard was the head coach of the basketball team at Butler from 1904 to 1906 and the head coach of the first LSU Tigers basketball team during the 1908–09 season. He also coached the LSU Tigers baseball team in 1908 and 1909 and the baseball team at Maine in 1911.
Wingard died of a cerebral hemorrhage in the summer of 1927 at a hospital in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.
Head coaching record
Football
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio Northern Polar Bears (Independent) (1903) | |||||||||
| 1903 | Ohio Northern | 7–5 | |||||||
| Ohio Northern: | 7–5 | ||||||||
| Butler Bulldogs (Independent) (1904) | |||||||||
| 1904 | Butler | 9–1 | |||||||
| 1905 | Butler | 7–3 | |||||||
| Butler: | 16–4 | ||||||||
| Western University of Pennsylvania Panthers (Independent) (1906) | |||||||||
| 1906 | Western University of Pennsylvania | 6–4 | |||||||
| Pittsburgh: | 6–4 | ||||||||
| LSU Tigers (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1907–1908) | |||||||||
| 1907 | LSU | 7–3 | 3–1 | 7th | L Bacardi | ||||
| 1908 | LSU | 10–0 | 2–0 | 1st | |||||
| LSU: | 17–3 | 5–1 | |||||||
| Maine Black Bears (Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1910–1911) | |||||||||
| 1910 | Maine | 5–1–2 | |||||||
| 1911 | Maine | 6–2 | 1st | ||||||
| Maine: | 11–3–2 | ||||||||
| Susquehanna Crusaders (Independent) (1916–1917) | |||||||||
| 1916 | Susquehanna | 4–5 | |||||||
| 1917 | Susquehanna | 1–0 | |||||||
| Bucknell Bison (Independent) (1918) | |||||||||
| 1918 | Bucknell | 6–0 | |||||||
| Bucknell: | 6–0 | ||||||||
| Susquehanna Crusaders (Independent) (1919) | |||||||||
| 1919 | Susquehanna | 5–4–1 | |||||||
| Susquehanna Crusaders (Independent) (1924–1925) | |||||||||
| 1924 | Susquehanna | 3–5 | |||||||
| 1925 | Susquehanna | 1–6–2 | |||||||
| Susquehanna: | 14–20–3 | ||||||||
| Total: | 77–39–5 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title | |||||||||
Baseball
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LSU Tigers (1908–1909) | |||||||||
| 1908 | LSU | 9–12 | |||||||
| 1909 | LSU | 7–10 | |||||||
| LSU: | 16–22 | ||||||||
| Maine Black Bears (1911) | |||||||||
| 1911 | Maine | 3–8 | |||||||
| Maine: | 3–8 | ||||||||
| Total: | 19–30 | ||||||||
| National champion Postseason invitational champion | |||||||||