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Charles Whelan

American football player and coach

Summary

American football player and coach

Field	Value
name	Charles Whelan
image	Dr. Charles Whelan, 1925 (cropped).jpg
caption	Whelan in 1925
birth_date
birth_place	Weymouth, Massachusetts, U.S.
death_date
death_place	Cohasset, Massachusetts, U.S.
alma_mater	Dartmouth College
Tufts School of Medicine
player_years1	1899–1900
player_team1	Dartmouth
player_positions	Fullback
coach_years1	1903–1907
coach_team1	Tufts
coach_years2	1910
coach_team2	Dartmouth (assistant)
coach_years3	1912–1917
coach_team3	Tufts
coach_years4	1919
coach_team4	Tufts
coach_years5	1921–1925
coach_team5	Boston University
overall_record	54–68–7

Tufts School of Medicine Charles "Doc" Whelan (April 3, 1877 – May 29, 1945) was an American football player and coach and physician. He served as the head football coach at Tufts College—now Tufts University—for three stints (1903–1907, 1912–1917, and 1919) and at Boston University from 1921 to 1925, compiling a career college football record of 54–68–7. Whelan also coached track at Harvard University. He died after a brief illness in 1945.

Early life

Whelan was born on April 3, 1877, in Weymouth, Massachusetts. He graduated from Weymouth High School in 1896 and entered Dartmouth College that fall. He left after one year to work in Boston, but returned a year later and graduated in 1901. While at Dartmouth, Whelan played fullback on the school's football team and specialized in the broad jump and the shotput on the track team.

Coaching career

Whelan worked his way through the Tufts School of Medicine by serving as coach of the school's football team and as the athletic director at the Volkmann School. After graduating, Whelan left athletics to work as a physician, but returned to football in 1910 as an assistant coach at Dartmouth. He returned to Tufts in 1912 and remained with the school until 1920 when he became supervisor of the Harvard Crimson track team and a professor of hygiene at Harvard College (he missed the 1918 season due to military service). His tenure at Harvard was short-lived as he submitted his resignation less than three months after taking the job to return to medicine. His final coaching position was at Boston University, where he served as head football coach from 1921 to 1925.

Medical career

Whelan was a pioneer in radiology. He was the chief radiologist at Quincy City Hospital and was the head of the x-ray at the New York Port of Embarkation Hospital during World War I. He was also a consultant at Carney Hospital and the New England Hospital for Women and Children.

Head coaching record

References

Theta Delta Chi. (1901). "The Shield". Theta Delta Chi.
"Deaths and Funerals". pqasb.pqarchiver.com.
(August 1945). "Deaths". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.
(January 19, 1910). "Dartmouth's New Coaching Staff". The Boston Daily Globe.
(March 23, 1920). "Dr Charles Whelan Harvard Mentor". The Boston Daily Globe.
(October 9, 1918). "Tufts to Play Football". The New York Times.
(June 9, 1920). "Dr. Whelan Quits Harvard". The New York Times.
(February 26, 1925). "Reappoint Whelan B. U. Gridiron Coach". The Boston Daily Globe.
(May 30, 1945). "Dr. Charles Whelan: Radiologist and Former Sports Coach Was 66". The Boston Daily Globe.

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