player_team death_date coach_years birth_place overall_record player_years coach_team coach_sport cfbdwid sport birth_date player_sport admin_years image article_title name admin_team
st. lawrence brooklyn dodgers -lrb- nfl -rrb- 22 october 2007 1946 & ndash ; 1961 greenville , ohio 85 -lrb- football -rrb- 161 & ndash ; 62 -lrb- golf & -rrb- ndash ; 53 & ndash ; 5 c. 1938 1939 & ndash ; 1941 lehigh football 3046 football , golf 16 september 1917 football 1962 & ndash ; 1984 william leckonby.jpg william leckonby
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william leckonby

william bader `` bill '' leckonby -lrb- september 16 , 1917 -- october 22 , 2007 -rrb- was an american football player , coach of football and golf , and college athletics administrator .
he played college football at st. lawrence university in canton , new york and from 1939 to 1941 in the national football league with the brooklyn dodgers .
leckonby served as the head football coach at lehigh university from 1946 to 1961 , compiling a record of 85 -- 53 -- 5 .
his 85 wins are the most of any coach in the history of the lehigh mountain hawks football program , and his tenure of 16 seasons as head coach is the longest in team history .
lecknoby was also the head golf coach at lehigh , tallying a mark of 161 -- 62 , and from 1962 to 1984 he served as the school 's athletic director .
