Marshall "Little Sleepy" Glenn (April 22, 1908 – October 11, 1983) was a player and coach of

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and

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and a

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. He served as the head football coach at

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from 1937 to 1939, compiling a record of 14–12–3, and the school's head basketball coach from 1933 to 1938, tallying a mark of 61–46. Glenn was born on April 22, 1908, in

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. He died on October 11, 1983, at Washington Country Hospital in

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, from injuries sustained in a car accident on U.S. Route 340. While attending

he was a member of

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Head coaching record

Football

Basketball

: In the 1934–35 season, West Virginia finished the Eastern Intercollegiate Conference season with a record of 6–2, tied for first place with

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.West Virginia subsequently lost to Pittsburgh in a conference championship playoff game, not included in West Virginia's regular-season conference won-lost record.

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