Glenn Killinger
American football, basketball, and baseball player
Died when: 89 years 316 days (1078 months)Star Sign: Virgo
William Glenn Killinger (September 13, 1898 – July 25, 1988) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
He graduated Harrisburg Technical High School and then lettered in three sports at Pennsylvania State University, where he was an All-American in football in 1921.
Killinger then played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Canton Bulldogs and the New York Giants and for Philadelphia Quakers of the first American Football League in 1926.
Killinger served as the head football coach at Dickinson College (1922), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1927–1931), Moravian College (1933), West Chester University (1934–1941, 1945–1959), and with the North Carolina Pre-Flight School (1944), compiling a career college football record of 176–72–16.
He was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1971.Killinger was also a minor league baseball player from 1922 until 1932.
During that time, he played for the Jersey City Skeeters (1922), Atlanta Crackers (1923), Harrisburg Senators (1924, 1927–1928), Shamokin Indians (1926) and the Williamsport Grays (1929–1932).
He served as a manager for the Indians and the Senators, managing the latter to the Eastern League pennant in 1928.
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