Edward Larned McGehee III (April 9, 1907 – March 3, 1989) was an

American football American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at e ...

and

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coach and college athletics administrator. He was the sixth head football coach at the

Southeastern Louisiana University Southeastern Louisiana University (Southeastern) is a public university in Hammond, Louisiana. It was founded in 1925 by Linus A. Sims as Hammond Junior College. Sims succeeded in getting the campus moved to north Hammond in 1928, when it beca ...

and held that position for five seasons, from 1946 until 1950. His coaching record at Southeastern Louisiana was 25–20–3. McGehee was also the head baseball coach at Southeastern Louisiana for one season, in 1949, tallying a mark of 7–11. He was the school's

athletic director An athletic director (commonly "athletics director" or "AD") is an administrator at many American clubs or institutions, such as colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, who oversees the work of coaches a ...

from 1946 to 1971. McGehee died on March 3, 1989, at his home in

Hammond, Louisiana Hammond is the largest city in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States, located east of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Baton Rouge and northwest of New Orleans. Its population was 20,019 in the 2010 United States census, 2010 U.S. census, and 21 ...

. A road on the Southeastern Louisiana University campus was dedicated in his honour in 2012.

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* 1907 births 1989 deaths Southeastern Louisiana Lions and Lady Lions athletic directors Southeastern Louisiana Lions baseball coaches Southeastern Louisiana Lions football coaches Sportspeople from Hammond, Louisiana {{1940s-collegefootball-coach-stub