Bill Wertenbaker | |
Birth Date: | 16 September 1875 |
Birth Place: | Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. |
Death Place: | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | University of Virginia |
Coach Years1: | 1895 |
Coach Team1: | Wofford |
Coach Years2: | 1897 |
Coach Team2: | Richmond |
Coach Years3: | 1898 |
Coach Team3: | South Carolina |
Coach Years4: | 1900 |
Coach Team4: | Washington and Lee |
Coach Years5: | 1901 |
Coach Team5: | Washington and Lee (assistant) |
Coach Years6: | 1902 |
Coach Team6: | Washington and Lee |
Admin Years1: | 1898 |
Admin Team1: | South Carolina |
Overall Record: | 11–16 |
William C. Wertenbaker (September 15, 1875 – March 24, 1933) was an American college football coach and physician. He served as the head football coach at Wofford College (1895), Richmond College—now known as the University of Richmond—in 1897, the University of South Carolina in 1898, and Washington and Lee University in 1900 and 1902, compiling a career head coaching record of 11–16. Wertenbaker practiced medicine in New Castle and Wilmington, Delaware, specializing in obstetrics and gynaecology.
Wertenbaker was born on September 15, 1875, in Charlottesville, Virginia. He died on March 24, 1933, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland following a brief illness.[1] He had a son, Charles, born circa 1901, who later became a foreign editor of Time.[2]