Glenn Johnson (coach)

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Glenn Johnson
Playing career
Football
1920 Indiana
Basketball
1920–1921 Indiana
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1922 Huntington (IN)
1924–1926 Bloomington HS (IN)
1930–1934 Skaneateles HS (NY)
1935–1939 Hartwick
1940 Mansfield
1942–1945 Central Normal
1948–1950 Bethany (WV)
1952–1953 Southwestern (TN)
Basketball
1921–1924 Huntington (IN)
1935–1940 Hartwick
1940–1941 Mansfield
1941–1942 Arsenal Technical HS (IN)
1942–1948 Central Normal / Canterbury (IN)
1948–1951 Bethany (WV)
1951–1956 Southwestern (TN)
Baseball
1936–1940 Hartwick
1952–? Southwestern (TN)
Track
1956–1967 Memphis State
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1921–1924 Huntington (IN)
1935–1940 Hartwick
1951–1956 Southwestern (TN)
Head coaching record
Overall20–74–8 (college football)

Glenn A. Johnson was an American football, basketball, baseball and track coach and college athletics administrator. [1]

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Johnson was a collegiate athletic at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, lettering in basketball in 1921. [2]

He served as the head football coach at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York from 1935 to 1939, [3] Mansfield University of Pennsylvania in 1940, Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia from 1948 to 1950, [4] and Rhodes College (then known as Southwestern College) in Memphis, Tennessee from 1951 to 1953. [5]

Johnson was also instrumental in establishing the Hoosier College Conference in 1947 while serving as the athletic director at Canterbury College in Danville, Indiana. [6]

Head coaching record

College football

YearTeamOverallConferenceStandingBowl/playoffs
Huntington (Independent)(1922)
1922 Huntington0–4–1
Huntington:0–4–1
Hartwick Hawks (Independent)(1935–1939)
1935 Hartwick2–5–1
1936 Hartwick0–5–2
1937 Hartwick3–4–1
1938 Hartwick3–4
1939 Hartwick0–6–1
Hartwick:8–24–5
Mansfield Mountaineers (Independent)(1940)
1940 Mansfield3–4
Mansfield:3–4
Central Normal Purple Warriors (Indiana Intercollegiate Conference)(1942–1945)
1942 Central Normal0–40–313th
1943 No team—World War II
1944 Central Normal3–1–1
1945 Central Normal2–42–37th
Central Normal:5–9–1
Bethany Bison (West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference)(1948–1950)
1948 Bethany1–61–3T–10th
1949 Bethany2–62–1NA
1950 Bethany1–6–10–2NA
Bethany:4–18–13–6
Southwestern Lynx (Independent)(1952–1953)
1952 Southwestern0–8
1953 Southwestern1–7
Southwestern:1–15
Total:20–74–8

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