Biographical details | |
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Born | Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. | July 30, 1875
Died | October 31, 1945 Salem, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 70)
Playing career | |
1893–1896 | Harvard |
Position(s) | Halfback |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1899 | MIT |
1904 | Harvard |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 7–2–1 |
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Edgar Newcomb Wrightington (July 30, 1875 – October 31, 1945) was an American college football player and coach. He attended Harvard University, where he played as a halfback for the Harvard Crimson and was selected to the 1896 College Football All-America Team. He served as the head football coach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899[1] and later as Harvard's head football coach in 1904. Wrightington later became a successful banker and oil and gas company executive. He served in various executive positions with Boston Consolidated Gas Cos., the New England Fuel and Transportation Co., and Beacon Oil Co.