| Henry W. Lever | |
| Birth Date: | 4 October 1883 |
| Birth Place: | Loveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Madras, Oregon, U.S. |
| Coach Sport1: | Football |
| Coach Years2: | 1909 |
| Coach Team2: | Valley City State |
| Coach Years3: | 1911 |
| Coach Team3: | TCU |
| Coach Years4: | 1913 |
| Coach Team4: | Carroll (WI) |
| Coach Years5: | 1930–1938 |
| Coach Team5: | Linfield |
| Coach Years6: | 1940–1942 |
| Coach Team6: | Linfield |
| Coach Sport7: | Basketball |
| Coach Years8: | 1910–1911 |
| Coach Team8: | Valley City State |
| Coach Years9: | 1912–1914 |
| Coach Team9: | Carroll (WI) |
| Coach Years10: | 1930–1941 |
| Coach Team10: | Linfield |
| Coach Years11: | 1942–1947 |
| Coach Team11: | Linfield |
| Coach Sport12: | Baseball |
| Coach Years13: | 1912 |
| Coach Team13: | TCU |
| Coach Years14: | 1947 |
| Coach Team14: | Linfield |
| Coach Sport15: | Track |
| Coach Years16: | 1931–1935 |
| Coach Team16: | Linfield |
| Coach Years17: | 1941–1943 |
| Coach Team17: | Linfield |
| Admin Years1: | 1930–1949 |
| Admin Team1: | Linfield |
| Overall Record: | 39–63–10 (college football) |
| Championships: | Football 1 NWC (1935) |
Henry Work Lever (October 4, 1883 - July 1, 1980) was an American sportsperson and educator. He was a college football coach at four different colleges, as well as an athletic director, baseball coach, basketball coach, and track coach.
Lever graduated from high school in Loveland, Ohio, in 1901 and then started college at Miami University.[1] After also attending Ohio Northern University, he then graduated from Ohio University in 1908, playing football at all three schools.[1] Lever then began teaching at today's Valley City State University in North Dakota that same year, where he also served as athletic director.[1] The next year, he married Marguerite Sherburne, with the marriage producing nine children.[1] After a few years the family moved to Missouri to farm.[1]
In 1911, Lever was named the eighth head football coach at the Texas Christian University (TUC) in Fort Worth, Texas. His team produced a record of 4 wins and 5 losses that year.[2] For 1912 he was TCU's baseball manager.[1]
After his years at TCU, Lever became the tenth head football coach at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin and he held that position for the 1913 season. At the school he was also the men's basketball coach for two seasons from 1912 to 1914.[1] His football coaching record at Carroll was 2–2–3.
Lever moved his family north to Alberta, Canada around 1916 to farm, but returned to the states about 1921 and started farming in Yakima, Washington.[1] They moved again to the southern Oregon Coast, eventually settling in Myrtle Point where he was a teacher at the high school and coached baseball, football, track, and basketball.[1] Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, then hired him in 1930 and he worked there as athletic director until 1949.[1] Lever was also the football coach from 1930 to 1938, and again from 1940 to 1942, compiling a record of 30–54–7, with a conference championship in 1935, the school's first.[1]
At Linfield he also was the men's basketball coach from 1930 to 1941 and again from 1942 to 1947. Lever had a record of 173–109 for a .613 winning percentage, the highest in school history for a coach with at least two seasons.[1] He was also the track coach from 1931 to 1935 and 1941 to 1943, and then baseball coach in 1947 when they won their first Northwest Conference championship.[1] He was later inducted into the college's athletic hall of fame.[1]
In 1952, Marguerite died and Lever moved to Central Oregon in 1953, settling in Madras.[1] He farmed briefly before moving into real estate as broker, which he continued until his death on July 1, 1980, after he was hit by a truck as he crossed the highway.[1]