Wynfred E. Allen | |
Birth Date: | 6 June 1873 |
Birth Place: | West Newton, Indiana, U.S. |
Death Place: | Santa Paula, California, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | Earlham (1898) |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | 1894–1895 |
Player Team2: | Springfield YMCA |
Player Years3: | 1896–1897 |
Player Team3: | Earlham |
Player Sport4: | Basketball |
Player Team5: | Springfield YMCA |
Player Sport6: | Baseball |
Player Team7: | Springfield YMCA |
Player Positions: | Fullback, guard (football) Center (basketball) |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1896–1897 |
Coach Team2: | Earlham |
Coach Years3: | 1898 |
Coach Team3: | West Texas Military |
Coach Years4: | 1903 |
Coach Team4: | Lawrence |
Coach Years5: | 1904 |
Coach Team5: | Epworth |
Coach Years6: | 1905–1906 |
Coach Team6: | Kearney Normal |
Coach Sport7: | Basketball |
Coach Years8: | 1906–1907 |
Coach Team8: | Kearney Normal |
Overall Record: | 2–2 (college basketball) |
Wynfred Emory Allen (June 6, 1873 – September 20, 1947) was an American football and basketball coach and biologist. He served as the head football coach at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana from 1896 to 1897,[1] Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin in 1903, and Kearney State Normal School—now known as the University of Nebraska–Kearney–from 1905 to 1906. Allen was also the head basketball coach at Kearney State in 1906–07.[2]
In 1910, Allen served as an assistant zoology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and from 1919 to 1943, he worked as a biologist at the Scripps Institution for Biological Research.[3]