Glen Harmeson

Who was Glen Harmeson?

Glen W. Harmeson was an American football player, coach of football and basketball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Lehigh University, Wabash College, and Arkansas State College—now Arkansas State University, compiling a career college football record of 49–60–11. Harmeson was also the head basketball coach at Lehigh from 1934 to 1937 and at Wabash from 1950 to 1951, tallying a career college basketball mark of 20–43.

Harmeson was a high school star in basketball, football & baseball for Indianapolis' Emmerich Manual High School; he was awarded 3 varsity letters in each of 3 high school sports and was a 3-time All-State basketball player.

During his intercollegiate career at Purdue, he was named all-Big 10 in basketball, football & baseball; he was a co-captain for the 1930 Big Ten Champion Basketball team with Stretch Murphy and a teammate of John Wooden and was a member of the 1928 Big Ten Champions as well. He led the Boilers to the 1929 Big Ten title in football, quarterbacking them to a perfect record of 8-0-0; outscoring the opposition 187-44. He was the first Purdue athlete to play on 2 teams in same academic year that posted undefeated conference marks. As a Freshman at Purdue, he was awarded 4 freshman letters.