player_team death_date coach_years championships player_positions overall_record player_years coach_team awards sport birth_date article_title name
penn 19 ?? 1920 -- 1930 1 -lrb- 1921 , 1928 -- 1929 -rrb- helms national -lrb- 1921 -rrb- 3 × eibl guard 186 -- 63 -lrb- 186 63 -rrb- 1914 -- 1917 penn ncaa team -lrb- 1916 -- 1917 -rrb- all-american -lrb- 1916 -rrb- 2 × eibl first basketball february 20 , 1895 edward mcnichol
 edward mcnichol
edward mcnichol

edward j. mcnichol -lrb- february 20 , 1895 -- 19 ?? -rrb-
was the head men 's basketball coach for the university of pennsylvania from 1920 -- 1930 .
his first penn team finished the season with a 21 -- 2 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the helms athletic foundation .
this was penn 's second consecutive helms national championship , the previous year 's 21 -- 1 team having later been recognized as the helms -lrb- and premo-porretta power poll -rrb- national champion as well .
mcnichol played on penn 's basketball team from 1914 to 1917 .
in his junior season in 1915 -- 16 , he was named a consensus all-american by the helms athletic foundation .
in both 1915 -- 16 and 1916 -- 17 he served as team captain and was a two-time eastern intercollegiate basketball league first team selection .
after his coaching career , he served in the united states army .
according to a 1919 edition of the `` year book of the pennsylvania society '' , mcnichol was a sergeant in the 469th railroad engineers for the army .
