Leland Lester Mendenhall (January 6, 1892 – October 4, 1970) was an American football, basketball, baseball, and tennis coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach (1921 to 1924), head basketball coach (1921 to 1924) and head baseball coach (1922 to 1923) at the University of Northern Iowa (then known as Iowa State Teachers College) in Cedar Falls, Iowa.[1] Mendenhall also coached tennis at Iowa State Teachers and was the school's athletic director.
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 6, 1892 Earlham, Iowa, U.S. |
| Died | October 4, 1970 (aged 78) Cedar Falls, Iowa, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1913 | Drake |
| 1916 | Iowa |
| Position(s) | Halfback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1917–1919 | Boone HS (IA) |
| 1920 | Carleton (assistant) |
| 1921–1924 | Iowa State Teachers |
| Basketball | |
| 1917–1920 | Boone HS (IA) |
| 1920–1921 | Carleton |
| 1921–1924 | Iowa State Teachers |
| Baseball | |
| 1921 | Carleton |
| 1922–1923 | Iowa State Teachers |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1921–1960 | Iowa State Teachers |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 15–11–2 (college football) 27–7 (college basketball, excluding Carleton) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Basketball 1 MIAC regular season (1921) | |
Mendenhall was a 1916 football letter winner at the University of Iowa.[2]
Mendenhall died on October 4, 1970, at Sartori Memorial Hospital in Cedar Falls.[3]
Head coaching record
editCollege football
edit| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa State Teachers (Independent) (1921) | |||||||||
| 1921 | Iowa State Teachers | 5–1–1 | |||||||
| Iowa State Teachers (Iowa Conference) (1922–1924) | |||||||||
| 1922 | Iowa State Teachers | 5–2 | |||||||
| 1923 | Iowa State Teachers | 3–3–1 | |||||||
| 1924 | Iowa State Teachers | 2–5 | 1–5 | 12th | |||||
| Iowa State Teachers: | 15–11–2 | ||||||||
| Total: | 15–11–2 | ||||||||
References
edit- ^ "Leland Mendenhall". Iowa GenWeb. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ^ "The Iowa Alumnus, Volume 15". University of Iowa. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ^ "Mendenhall Dead At 78". The Des Moines Register. Des Moines, Iowa. October 5, 1970. p. 4-S. Retrieved December 19, 2020 – via Newspapers.com
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