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prendergast yearbook pictured in '' epitome 1946 '' , lehigh lafayette september 1967 -lrb- aged 65 -rrb- 1942 ; 1946 1943 & ndash ; 1945 1943 & ndash lineman 3 -lrb- football -rrb- 9 & ndash ; 41 -lrb- basketball & -rrb- ndash ; 15 & ndash ; 1 c. 1923 lehigh -lrb- line -rrb- lehigh lehigh football basketball 3050 football , basketball august 25 , 1902 football leo prendergast.png leo prendergast
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leo prendergast

leo f. prendergast -lrb- august 25 , 1902 -- september 1967 -rrb- was an american football player and coach of football and basketball .
he served as the head football coach at lehigh university from 1943 to 1945 , compiling a record of 3 -- 15 -- 1 .
prendergast was the 20th football head coach for the lehigh mountain hawks .
prendergast was also the head basketball coach at lehigh from 1943 to 1946 , tallying a mark of 9 -- 41 .
he attended lafayette college , where he played football as a lineman under jock sutherland , and from which he graduated in 1924 .
prendergast had previously been the head football coach at bethlehem high school -lrb- 1927-1937 -rrb- , and after world war ii was the line coach for the bethlehem bulldogs semi-professional football team .
