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Rip Engle 
Sport(s) Football, basketball Biographical details Born March 26, 1906 Place of birth Elk Lick, Pennsylvania Died March 7, 1983 (aged 76) Place of death Bellefonte, Pennsylvania Playing career 1929 Western Maryland Position(s) End Coaching career (HC unless noted) Football
1944–1949
1950–1965
Basketball
1942–1946
Brown
Penn State
BrownHead coaching record Overall 132–68–8 (football)
29–44 (basketball)Bowls 3–1 Statistics College Football Data Warehouse Accomplishments and honors Awards Amos Alonzo Stagg Award (1969) College Football Hall of Fame
Inducted in 1973 (profile)Charles A. "Rip" Engle (March 26, 1906 – March 7, 1983) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball in the United States. He served as the head football coach at Brown University from 1944 to 1949 and at Pennsylvania State University from 1950 to 1965, compiling a career college football record of 132–68–8. Engle was also the head basketball coach at Brown from 1942 to 1946, tallying a mark of 29–44. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1973
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Early life and playing career
Engle was born in Elk Lick Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. He played college football as an end at Western Maryland College, now McDaniel College.
Coaching career
Engle's coaching record from 1944 to 1965, including stints at Brown University and Penn State, was 132–68–8. He played football at Western Maryland College, reportedly in the first game he ever saw.
Under the leadership of Engle at Brown, Joe Paterno developed as a capable quarterback and a skillful leader. After graduating in 1950, Paterno joined Engle at Penn State as an assistant coach. Upon Engle's retirement in 1965, Paterno was named coach of the Nittany Lions for the 1966 season. Engle's best season at Penn State was in 1962 when the Lions went 9–2, were ranked ninth in the country, and played in the Gator Bowl. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1973.
Engle developed a game called Angleball as a way for his players to maintain physical fitness in the off-season.
Head coaching record
Football
Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Coaches# AP° Brown Bears (Independent) (1944–1949) 1944 Brown 3–4–1 1945 Brown 3–4–1 1946 Brown 3–5–1 1947 Brown 4–4–1 1948 Brown 7–2 1949 Brown 8–1 Brown: 28–20–4 Penn State Nittany Lions (Independent) (1950–1965) 1950 Penn State 5–3–1 1951 Penn State 5–4 1952 Penn State 7–2–1 1953 Penn State 6–3 1954 Penn State 7–2 1955 Penn State 5–4 1956 Penn State 6–2–1 1957 Penn State 6–3 1958 Penn State 6–3–1 1959 Penn State 9–2 W Liberty 10 12 1960 Penn State 7–3 W Liberty 16 1961 Penn State 8–3 W Gator 19 17 1962 Penn State 9–2 L Gator 9 9 1963 Penn State 7–3 16 1964 Penn State 6–4 14 1965 Penn State 5–5 Penn State: 104–48–4 Total: 132–68–8 National Championship Conference Title Conference Division Title #Rankings from final Coaches' Poll.
°Rankings from final AP Poll.See also
References
External links
- Rip Engle at the College Football Hall of Fame
- Rip Engle at the College Football Data Warehouse
- Rip Engle at College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
Brown Bears men's basketball head coaches Ed Benjamin (1900–1901) • Charles Ray (1901–1902) • Paul DeWolf (1902–1903) • Henry Ahrens (1903–1904) • Paul DeWolf (1904–1905) • Oscar Rackle (1905–1906) • W. W. Reynolds (1906–1907) • J. Donald Pryor (1907–1909) • Walter White (1909–1910) • J. Russell McKay (1910–1912) • No team (1912–1918) • Louis Pieri (1918–1919) • Ed Freeman (1919–1920) • Florence Harvey (1920–1921) • Walter Snell (1921–1923) • Harold Evans (1923–1926) • Tuss McLaughry (1926–1929) • Rufus Bond (1929–1931) • Art Kahler (1931–1938) • George E. Allen (1938–1941) • Tippy Dye (1941–1942) • Rip Engle (1942–1946) • Weeb Ewbank (1946–1947) • Robert Morris (1947–1954) • L. Stanley Ward (1954–1969) • J. Gerald Alaimo (1969–1978) • Joe Mullaney (1978–1981) • Mike Cingiser (1981–1991) • Frank Dobbs (1991–1999) • Glen Miller (1999–2006) • Craig Robinson (2006–2008) • Jesse Agel (2008– )
Brown Bears head football coaches No coach (1878) • No team (1879) • No coach (1880) • No team (1881–1885) • No coach (1886) • No team (1887–1888) • No coach (1889–1891) • M. Howland (1892) • William Odlin (1893) • William G. Norton (1894) • Wallace Moyle (1895–1897) • Eddie N. Robinson (1898–1901) • J. A. Gammons (1902) • Dave Fultz (1903) • Eddie N. Robinson (1904–1907) • J. A. Gammons (1908–1909) • Eddie N. Robinson (1910–1925) • Tuss McLaughry (1926–1940) • Skip Stahley (1941–1943) • Rip Engle (1944–1949) • Gus Zitrides (1950) • Alva Kelley (1951–1958) • John McLaughry (1959–1966) • Len Jardine (1967–1972) • John A. Anderson (1973–1983) • John Rosenberg (1984–1989) • Mickey Kwiatkowski (1990–1993) • Mark Whipple (1994–1997) • Phil Estes (1998–)
Penn State Nittany Lions head football coaches George W. Hoskins (1892–1895) • Samuel B. Newton (1896–1898) • Sam Boyle (1899) • Pop Golden (1900–1902) • Daniel A. Reed (1903) • Tom Fennell (1904–1908) • Bill Hollenback (1909) • Jack Hollenback (1910) • Bill Hollenback (1911–1914) • Dick Harlow (1915–1917) • Hugo Bezdek (1918–1929) • Bob Higgins (1930–1948) • Joe Bedenk (1949) • Rip Engle (1950–1965) • Joe Paterno (1966–2011) • Tom Bradley # (2011– )
Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.Amos Alonzo Stagg Award winners 1940: Donald Herring, Jr. | 1941: Butch Cowell† | 1942–1945 No award given | 1946: Grantland Rice | 1947: William Alexander | 1948: Gil Dobie, Glenn Scobey Warner & Robert Zuppke | 1949: Dick Harlow | 1950 No award given | 1951: Tuss McLaughry | 1952: Bo McMillin | 1953: Lou Little | 1954: Dana X. Bible | 1955: Joseph J. Tomlin | 1956 No award given | 1957: Robert Neyland | 1958: Bernie Bierman | 1959: John Wilce | 1960: Harvey Harman | 1961: Ray Eliot | 1962: Elton Wieman | 1963: Andrew Kerr | 1964: Don Faurot | 1965: Harry Stuhldreher | 1966: Bernie Moore | 1967: Jess Neely | 1968: Abe Martin | 1969: Rip Engle | 1970: Pappy Waldorf | 1971: William D. Murray | 1972: Jack Curtice | 1973: Lloyd Jordan | 1974: Jake Gaither | 1975: Gerald B. Zornow | 1976 No award given | 1977: Ben Schwartzwalder | 1978: Tom Hamilton | 1979: Fritz Crisler | 1980 No award given | 1981: Fred Russell | 1982: Eddie Robinson | 1983: Bear Bryant | 1984: Bud Wilkinson | 1985: Duffy Daugherty | 1986: Woody Hayes | 1987: Field Scovell | 1988: Herb McCracken | 1989: David M. Nelson | 1990: Len Casanova | 1991: Bob Blackman | 1992: Charles McClendon | 1993: Keith Jackson | 1994: Bob Devaney | 1995: John Merritt† | 1996: Chuck Neinas | 1997: Ara Parseghian | 1998: Bob Reade | 1999: Bo Schembechler | 2000: Tom Osborne | 2001: Vince Dooley | 2002: Joe Paterno | 2003: LaVell Edwards | 2004: Ron Schipper | 2005: Hayden Fry | 2006: Grant Teaff | 2007: Bill Curry | 2008: Bill Walsh† | 2009: John Gagliardi | 2010: Darrell Royal| 2011: Bobby Bowden
† Denotes posthumous selectionCategories:- 1906 births
- 1983 deaths
- American football tight ends
- Brown Bears football coaches
- Brown Bears men's basketball coaches
- McDaniel Green Terror football players
- Penn State Nittany Lions football coaches
- High school football coaches in the United States
- College Football Hall of Fame inductees
- People from Somerset County, Pennsylvania
- Players of American football from Pennsylvania
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