Percy Langdon Wendell

Percy Langdon Wendell
Biographical details
Wendell at Harvard in 1912
Sport(s)	Football
Born	(1889-07-16)July 16, 1889 Roxbury, Massachusetts
Died	March 13, 1932(1932-03-13) (aged 42)
Playing career
Football
1910–1912	Harvard
Position(s)	Halfback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1920	Boston University
1921–1924	Williams
1925–1927	Lehigh
Basketball
1919–1920	Boston University
Head coaching record
Overall	9–23–3 (football, excluding Williams) 0–6 (basketball)
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
All-American, 1910 All-American, 1911 All-American, 1912

College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1972 (profile)

Percy Langdon "Bullet" Wendell (July 16, 1889 – March 13, 1932) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball in the United States.

Biography

He was born on July 16, 1889 in Roxbury, Massachusetts to Frank Thaxter Wendell and Helen Stamford. He attended the Roxbury Latin School and attended Harvard University from 1909 to 1913. He went on to attend two years of medical school.^[1]

He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972. He was also the 16th head football coach for the Lehigh Mountain Hawks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and he held that position for three seasons, from 1925 until 1927. His overall coaching record at Lehigh was 5 wins, 20 losses, and 2 ties. This ranks him 17th at Lehigh in terms of total wins and 26th at Lehigh in terms of winning percentage. ^[2] He died in 1932 at age 43.

References

↑ Percy Langdon Wendell. Harvard University. 1917. Retrieved 2009-12-04. Born at Roxbury, Mass., July 16, 1889. Parents: Frank Thaxter, Helen (Stamford) Wendell. School: Roxbury Latin School, Boston, Mass. Years in College: 1909-13. Degree: S.B. 1913. Unmarried. Occupation: Systematizer. Address: (home) 31 Massachusetts Ave.. Boston, Mass.; (businest) 115 Essex St., Haverhill, Mass. Two years in Medical School; nine months making paper cups and bags; three months in the export business; six months with the Bradley Shoe Company with Everett Bradley, '13, as Manager.
↑ Lehigh Coaching Records

External links

Percy Langdon Wendell at the College Football Hall of Fame
Percy Langdon Wendell at the College Football Data Warehouse

Boston University Terriers men's basketball head coaches

No coach (1901–1907)
No team (1907–1908)
P. V. Stroud (1908–1909)
Charles McGlue (1909–1910)
H. L. Perrin (1910–1911)
No team (1911–1915)
Henry Crane (1915–1916)
V. B. Allison (1916–1918)
No team (1918–1919)
Percy L. Wendell (1919–1920)
No coach (1920–1923)
No team (1923–1924)
John Williams (1924–1925)
Win Carlson (1925–1932)
John Harmon (1932–1935)
Mel Collard (1935–1943)
No team (1943–1944)
Mel Collard (1944–1945)
Russ Peterson (1945–1948)
Charles Cummings (1948–1949)
Vin Cronin (1949–1952)
Matt Zunic (1952–1959)
John Burke (1959–1966)
Charles Luce (1966–1971)
Ron Mitchell (1971–1974)
Roy Sigler (1974–1978)
Rick Pitino (1978–1983)
John Kuester (1983–1985)
Mike Jarvis (1985–1990)
Bob Brown (1990–1994)
Dennis Wolff (1994–2009)
Pat Chambers (2009–2011)
Joe Jones (2011– )

Boston University Terriers head football coaches

No coach (1884)
No team (1885)
No coach (1886–1887)
No team (1888–1890)
No coach (1891–1897)
No team (1898–1903)
No coach (1904–1905)
No team (1906–1916)
No coach (1917)
John MacDonald (1918–1919)
Percy L. Wendell (1920)
Charles Whelan (1921–1925)
Reggie Brown (1926–1929)
Hilary Mahaney (1930–1931)
Myles Lane (1932)
John Harmon (1933)
Pat Hanley (1934–1941)
Walt Holmer (1942)
No team (1943–1944)
Robert McKelvey (1945)
Walt Holmer (1946)
Aldo Donelli (1947–1956)
Steve Sinko (1957–1963)
Warren Schmakel (1964–1968)
Larry Naviaux (1969–1972)
Paul Kemp (1973–1976)
Rick Taylor (1977–1984)
Steve Stetson (1985–1987)
Chris Palmer (1988–1989)
Dan Allen (1990–1995)
Tom Masella (1996–1997)

Williams Ephs head football coaches

Samuel B. Newton (1907–1909)
Fred Daly (1914–1915)
Mysterious Walker (1917)
No team (1918)
Joseph W. Brooks (1919–1920)
Percy Langdon Wendell (1921–1924)
Douglas Lawson (1925–1927)
Charlie Caldwell (1928–1942)
No team (1943–1945)
A. Barr Snively (1946–1947)
Len Watters (1948–1962)
Frank Navarro (1963–1967)
Larry Catuzzi (1968–1970)
Al Jacks (1971)
Bob Odell (1971–1986)
Dick Farley (1987–2003)
Mike Whalen (2004–2009)
Aaron Kelton (2010–2015)
Mark Raymond (2016– )

Lehigh Mountain Hawks head football coaches

No coach (1884–1891)
John A. Hartwell (1892)
Harmon S. Graves (1893)
William Heffelfinger (1894)
Laurie Bliss (1895)
L. N. Morris (1896)
Samuel M. Hammond (1897)
Samuel Huston Thompson (1898–1899)
Walter R. Okeson (1900)
J. W. H. Pollard (1901)
Samuel B. Newton (1902–1905)
Byron W. Dickson (1906–1909)
Howard R. Reiter (1910–1911)
Tom Keady (1912–1920)
Frank Glick (1921)
James A. Baldwin (1922–1924)
Percy L. Wendell (1925–1927)
A. Austin Tate (1928–1933)
Glen Harmeson (1934–1941)
George Hoban (1942)
Leo Prendergast (1943–1945)
William Leckonby (1946–1961)
Mike Cooley (1962–1964)
Frederick Dunlap (1965–1975)
John Whitehead (1976–1985)
Hank Small (1986–1993)
Kevin Higgins (1994–2000)
Pete Lembo (2001–2005)
Andy Coen (2006– )

Percy Wendell—championships, awards, and honors

1910 Harvard Crimson football—national champions

Hamilton Corbett Bob Fisher Robert McKay Wayland Minot Percy Wendell Head coach Percy Haughton

1912 Harvard Crimson football—national champions

Charles Brickley Gerard Driscoll Sam Felton Henry Burchell Gardner Harvey Hitchcock Huntington Hardwick Francis Joseph O'Brien Stan Pennock Bob Storer Percy Wendell Head coach Percy Haughton

1910 College Football All-America Team consensus selections

Backfield	QB Earl Sprackling HB Talbot Pendleton HB Percy Langdon Wendell FB Leroy Mercer

Line	E John Kilpatrick E Stanfield Wells T Robert McKay T James Walker G Albert Benbrook G Bob Fisher C Ernest Cozens

1911 College Football All-America Team consensus selections

Backfield	QB Art Howe QB Earl Sprackling HB Jim Thorpe HB Percy Langdon Wendell FB John Dalton

Line	E Douglas Bomeisler E Sanford White T Leland Devore T Edward Hart G Joseph Duff G Bob Fisher C Hank Ketcham

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