:H. D. McChesney

{{Short description|American football and basketball coach}}

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{{Infobox college coach

| name = H. D. McChesney

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1895|6|12}}

| birth_place = Burlington, Iowa, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1954|3|12|1895|6|12}}

| death_place = Roy, Utah, U.S.

| alma_mater =

| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1918

| coach_team2 = Kansas State Normal

| coach_years3 = 1920–1922

| coach_team3 = Lawrence

| coach_sport4 = Basketball

| coach_years5 = 1916–1917

| coach_team5 = Kansas State Normal

| coach_years6 = 1920–1923

| coach_team6 = Lawrence

| overall_record = 20–5–1 (football)
28–18 (basketball)

| bowl_record =

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| championships = Football
1 Midwest Conference (1922)

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Harlan Disberry McChesney (June 12, 1895 – March 12, 1954) was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Kansas State Normal School—now known as Emporia State University— in 1918 and at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin from 1920 to 1922, compiling a career college football coaching record of 20–5–1.[http://www.emporia.edu/athletics/football/07ESUFBmediaguide.pdf Emporia State University] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927062323/http://www.emporia.edu/athletics/football/07ESUFBmediaguide.pdf |date=September 27, 2011 }} Football Media Guide McChesney was also the head basketball coach at Kansas State Normal for one season, in 1916–17, and at Lawrence from 1920 to 1923, tallying a career college basketball coaching record of 28–18.

McChesney was a veteran of the Iowa National Guard.Emporia Weekly Gazette, February 7, 1918, Emporia, Kansas He died in Utah of a cerebral hemorrhage 1954.

Head coaching record

=Football=

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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Kansas State Normal

| conf = Independent

| startyear = 1918

| endyear = single

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1918

| name = Kansas State Normal

| overall = 2–2

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| name = Kansas State Normal

| overall = 2–2

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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Lawrence Vikings

| conf = Independent

| startyear = 1920

| endyear = 1921

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1920

| name = Lawrence

| overall = 7–1

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1921

| name = Lawrence

| overall = 5–2

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| ranking = no

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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Lawrence Vikings

| conf = Midwest Conference

| startyear = 1922

| endyear = single

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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| year = 1922

| name = Lawrence

| overall = 6–0–1

| conference = 2–0–1

| confstanding = T–1st

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| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Lawrence

| overall = 18–3–1

| confrecord = 2–0–1

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{{CFB Yearly Record End

| overall = 20–5–1

| bowls = no

| poll = no

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