H. D. McChesney explained

H. D. McChesney
Birth Date:12 June 1895
Birth Place:Burlington, Iowa, U.S.
Death Place:Roy, Utah, U.S.
Coach Sport1:Football
Coach Years2:1918
Coach Team2:Kansas State Normal
Coach Years3:1920–1922
Coach Team3:Lawrence
Coach Sport4:Basketball
Coach Years5:1916–1917
Coach Team5:Kansas State Normal
Coach Years6:1920–1923
Coach Team6:Lawrence
Overall Record:20–5–1 (football)
28–18 (basketball)
Championships:Football
1 Midwest Conference (1922)

Harlan Disberry McChesney (June 12, 1895 – March 12, 1954) was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Kansas State Normal School—now known as Emporia State University— in 1918 and at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin from 1920 to 1922, compiling a career college football coaching record of 20–5–1.[1] McChesney was also the head basketball coach at Kansas State Normal for one season, in 1916–17, and at Lawrence from 1920 to 1923, tallying a career college basketball coaching record of 28–18.

McChesney was a veteran of the Iowa National Guard.[2] He died in Utah of a cerebral hemorrhage 1954.

Head coaching record

Football

Notes and References

  1. http://www.emporia.edu/athletics/football/07ESUFBmediaguide.pdf Emporia State University
  2. Emporia Weekly Gazette, February 7, 1918, Emporia, Kansas