Mel Whedbee
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Melville F. Whedbee (February 14, 1904 – July 11, 1974) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, Kentucky from 1961 to 1966. Whedbee joined the coaching staff at Kentucky State in 1959 as an assistant under Sam B. Taylor.[1] He took over as head coach for an ailing Taylor midway through the 1961 season.[2] Whedbee was succeeded as head football coach by Charles Bates in 1967, but remained as an instructor in the physical education department at Kentucky State.[3]
Whedbee died on July 11, 1974, in Topeka, Kansas.[4]
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky State (Midwest Athletic Association / Midwest Conference / Midwestern Conference) (1961–1966) | |||||||||
| 1961 | Kentucky State | 3–1[n 1] | 1–1[n 1] | 3rd | |||||
| 1962 | Kentucky State | 4–4 | 0–3 | 4th | |||||
| 1963 | Kentucky State | 5–4 | 1–2 | 3rd | |||||
| 1964 | Kentucky State | 7–3 | 1–2 | 3rd | |||||
| 1965 | Kentucky State | 4–4 | 0–3 | 4th | |||||
| 1966 | Kentucky State | 3–4–1 | 0–2 | 3rd | |||||
| Kentucky State: | 26–20–1 | 3–13 | |||||||
| Total: | 26–20–1 | ||||||||
Notes
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ a b Sam B. Taylor served as Kentucky State's head coach for the first five games of the 1961 season before ailing health forced him to hand control over the team over to Whedbee. The Thorobreds finished the season with an overall record of 6–3 and a mark of 1–2 in conference play.
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
Script error: No such module "Navbox". Template:Asbox
- Pages with script errors
- Infobox college coach articles with small text
- 1904 births
- 1974 deaths
- American football quarterbacks
- Fisk Bulldogs football players
- Kentucky State Thorobreds football coaches
- Players of American football from Louisville, Kentucky
- African-American coaches of American football
- 20th-century African-American sportsmen