William Leckonby

William Leckonby
Biographical details

Sport(s)	Football, golf
Born	(1917-09-16)September 16, 1917 Greenville, Ohio
Died	October 22, 2007(2007-10-22) (aged 90)
Playing career
Football
c. 1938	St. Lawrence
1939–1941	Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1946–1961	Lehigh
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1962–1984	Lehigh
Head coaching record
Overall	85–53–5 (football) 161–62 (golf)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse

William Bader "Bill" Leckonby (September 16, 1917 – October 22, 2007) was an American football player, coach of football and golf, and college athletics administrator. He played college football at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York and from 1939 to 1941 in the National Football League with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Leckonby served as the head football coach at Lehigh University from 1946 to 1961, compiling a record of 85–53–5. His 85 wins are the most of any coach in the history of the Lehigh Mountain Hawks football program, and his tenure of 16 seasons as head coach is the longest in team history. Lecknoby was also the head golf coach at Lehigh, tallying a mark of 161–62, and from 1962 to 1984 he served as the school's athletic director.^[1]

References

↑ "Former Lehigh AD Leckonby passes away". Lehigh University Athletics. October 22, 2007. Retrieved November 2, 2011.

External links

William Leckonby at the College Football Data Warehouse

William Leckonby at Pro-Football-Reference.com

Lehigh Mountain Hawks head football coaches

No coach (1884–1891)
John A. Hartwell (1892)
Harmon S. Graves (1893)
William Heffelfinger (1894)
Laurie Bliss (1895)
L. N. Morris (1896)
Samuel M. Hammond (1897)
Samuel Huston Thompson (1898–1899)
Walter R. Okeson (1900)
J. W. H. Pollard (1901)
Samuel B. Newton (1902–1905)
Byron W. Dickson (1906–1909)
Howard R. Reiter (1910–1911)
Tom Keady (1912–1920)
Frank Glick (1921)
James A. Baldwin (1922–1924)
Percy L. Wendell (1925–1927)
A. Austin Tate (1928–1933)
Glen Harmeson (1934–1941)
George Hoban (1942)
Leo Prendergast (1943–1945)
William Leckonby (1946–1961)
Mike Cooley (1962–1964)
Frederick Dunlap (1965–1975)
John Whitehead (1976–1985)
Hank Small (1986–1993)
Kevin Higgins (1994–2000)
Pete Lembo (2001–2005)
Andy Coen (2006– )

Lehigh Mountain Hawks athletic directors

Howard R. Reiter (1910–1934) Nelson A. Kellogg (1934–1939) Glen Harmeson (1939–1942) James Gordon # (1942–1943) Glen Harmeson (?–1946) Percy L. Sadler (1946–1962) William Leckonby (1962–1984) Richard P. Gibney (1984–1986) John Whitehead (1986–1989) Joe Sterrett (1989– ) Pound sign (#) denotes interim athletic director.

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, August 11, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.