Edgar Wingard

Edgar Wingard
	Wingard pictured in The Prism 1912, Maine yearbook
Biographical details
Born	September 21, 1878; Altoona, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	July 31, 1927 (aged 48); Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1903	Ohio Northern
1904–1905	Butler
1906	Western U. of Pennsylvania
1907–1908	LSU
1909	Carlisle (assistant)
1910–1911	Maine
1912	Maine (assistant)
1916–1917	Susquehanna
1918	Bucknell
1919	Susquehanna
1924–1925	Susquehanna
Basketball
1904–1906	Butler
1908–1909	LSU
1916–1917	Susquehanna
Baseball
1908–1909	LSU
1911	Maine
Track and Field
1907–1909	LSU
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1910–1916	Maine
Head coaching record
Overall	74–38–6 (football); 21–12 (basketball); 19–30–1 (baseball)
Bowls	0–1
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
	Football; 1 National (1908); 1 SIAA (1908); 1 Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1911)

Edgar Ramey Wingard (September 21, 1878 – July 31, 1927) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at seven different schools: Ohio Northern University (1903), Butler University (1904–1905), Western University of Pennsylvania—now known as the University of Pittsburgh (1906), Louisiana State University (1907–1908),^[2] the University of Maine (1910–1911), Susquehanna University (1916–1917, 1919, 1924–1925), and Bucknell University (1918), compiling a career record of 74–38–6. In 1908, Wingard led his LSU team to a record of 10–0. The team has been recognized as a national champion by the National Championship Foundation, although LSU does not officially claim a national title that season. Wingard was the head coach of the basketball team at Butler from 1904 to 1906 and the head coach of the first LSU Tigers basketball team during the 1908–09 season.^[3] He coached the LSU Tigers baseball team in 1908 and 1909^[4] and the baseball team at Maine in 1911. Wingard also coached the LSU Tigers track and field team from 1907 to 1909.^[5]

Wingard died of a cerebral hemorrhage in the summer of 1927 at a hospital in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.^[6]^[7]

Head coaching record


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
Ohio Northern (Independent) (1903)
1903	Ohio Northern	7–5
Ohio Northern:		7–5
Butler Christians (Independent) (1904)
1904	Butler	6–1
1905	Butler	7–2–1
Butler:		13–3–1
Western University of Pennsylvania (Independent) (1906)
1906	Western University of Pennsylvania	6–4
Pittsburgh:		6–4
LSU Tigers (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1907–1908)
1907	LSU	7–3	3–1	7th	W Bacardi
1908	LSU	10–0	2–0	1st
LSU:		17–3	5–1
Maine Black Bears (Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1910–1911)
1910	Maine	5–1–2	1–1–1
1911	Maine	6–2	2–1	1st
Maine:		11–3–2	3–2–1
Susquehanna Crusaders (Independent) (1916–1917)
1916	Susquehanna	4–5
1917	Susquehanna	1–0
Bucknell (Independent) (1918)
1918	Bucknell	6–0
Bucknell:		6–0
Susquehanna Crusaders (Independent) (1919)
1919	Susquehanna	5–4–1
Susquehanna Crusaders (Independent) (1924–1925)
1924	Susquehanna	3–5
1925	Susquehanna	1–6–2
Susquehanna:		14–20–3
Total:		74–38–6
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth

Statistics overview
Season	Team	Overall	Conference
Butler Christians (Independent) (1904–1906)
1904–05	Butler	6–2
1905–06	Butler	1–1
Butler:		7–3 (.700)
LSU Tigers (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1908–1909)
1908–09	LSU	5–2	2–0
LSU:		5–2 (.714)	2–0 (1.000)
Susquehanna Crusaders (Independent) (1916–1917)
1916–17	Susquehanna	9–7
Susquehanna:		9–7 (.563)
Total:		21–12 (.636)

^ World War I Draft Registration Card for Edgar Ramey Wingard, born Sept. 31, 1878, Ancestry.com.
^ "LSU Year-by-Year Records" (PDF). lsusports.net. p. 107. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 19, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
^ "LSU Fighting Tigers Coaches". sports-reference.com. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
^ "2022 LSU Baseball Record Book". LSU Athletics, Louisiana State University. June 2022. p. 102. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
^ "2022 LSU Track & Field Record Book". LSU Athletics, Louisiana State University. January 24, 2022. p. 9. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
^ "Former University of Maine Coach, Wingard, Is Dead at Home in Penna". The Lewiston Daily Sun. November 5, 1927. Retrieved October 22, 2011.
^ "Here and There". The Gettsburg Times. August 2, 1927.("Gettysburg Rotarians will regret to learn of the death at Selinsgrove of Edgar R. Wingard, governor of the fifty-first district of Rotary International, from cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 48 years.")