| Dan Whelchel | |
| Birth Date: | 26 August 1894 |
| Birth Place: | Dawson County, Georgia, U.S. |
| Death Place: | West Helena, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 0 |
| Weight Lbs: | 194 |
| Currentposition: | Guard |
| School: | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets |
| Class: | Graduate |
| Pastschools: | Georgia Tech (1917 - 1919) |
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Dan Whelchel (August 26, 1894 - March 1, 1988) was a college football player and fruit horticulturalist.
Dan Whelchel was born in Dawson County, Georgia on August 26, 1894 to Jordan Davis Whelchel and Amanda Jane Palmour. At the time of his enrollment at Tech he was living in Ashburn, Georgia. Dan was a first cousin of All-Southern Georgia Bulldogs football player Hugh Whelchel.
Whelchel was a prominent guard for John Heisman's Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology.[1]
He was a member of the school's first national championship team in 1917, having to join the American effort in the First World War before he got to celebrate.[2]
Whelchel later was a fruit horticulturalist in Arkansas, specializing in nuts.[3]