Edgar Ramey Wingard (September 21, 1878 – July 31, 1927) was an

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, and

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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

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(1906),

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(1907–1908), the

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(1910–1911),

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(1916–1917, 1919, 1924–1925), and

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(1918), compiling a career record of 74–38–6. 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

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team during the 1908–09 season. He coached the

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team in 1908 and 1909 and the baseball team at Maine in 1911. Wingard also coached the

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team from 1907 to 1909. Wingard died of a cerebral hemorrhage in the summer of 1927 at a hospital in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.("Gettysburg Rotarians will regret to learn of the death at Selinsgrove of Edgar R. Wingard, governor of the fifty-first district of Rotary International, from cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 48 years.")

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