Glenn Thistlethwaite

Glenn Franklin Thistlethwaite was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Earlham College , Northwestern University , the University of WisconsinMadison , Carroll College in Wisconsin , and the University of Richmond , compiling a career college football record of 1167014. Coaching at Northwestern from 1922 to 1926, Thistlethwaite compiled a 21171 record, making him one of the most successful coaches in Northwestern Wildcats football history. In 1926, his team won a share of the Big Ten Conference title, only the second in school history, and his tenure sparked a revival in Northwestern football after a postWorld War I decline. From 1927 to 1931, Thistlethwaite coached at Wisconsin, tallying a 26163 mark. From 1934 to 1941, he coached at Richmond, where he oversaw the schools entry into the Southern Conference in 1936. Born in Franklin, Indiana in 1885, Thistlethwaite died at the age of 71 on October 6, 1956 of a heart attack at a hospital in Richmond, Virg

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