:Otto Wagonhurst

{{Short description|American football player and coach (1871–1932)}}

{{Infobox college coach

| name = Otto Wagonhurst

| image = Otto Wagonhurst Penn.png

| alt =

| caption = Wagonhurst at Penn, c. 1893

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1871|4|25}}

| birth_place = Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania, U.S.{{cite journal|title=Elections and Appointments|journal=Railroad Gazette|volume=44|page=428|date=March 20, 1908|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5OpQAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Otto+Franklin+Wagenhorst%22}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1932|6|15|1871|4|25}}

| death_place = Jackson, Michigan, U.S.{{Cite web | url=http://history.catskill.net/1932/1932-06-24-0001.pdf#xml=http://history.catskill.net/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=bcf694&DocId=5337&Index=D%3a%5cdtSearch%20Developer%5cUserData%5ccatskill%2dmountain%2dnews&HitCount=2&hits=1695+16b1+&SearchForm=D%3a%5ccatskill%2dmountain%2dnews%5cdtSearch%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf |title=Otto F. Wagonhorst Dies | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425113026/http://history.catskill.net/1932/1932-06-24-0001.pdf#xml=http://history.catskill.net/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=bcf694&DocId=5337&Index=D%3a%5cdtSearch%20Developer%5cUserData%5ccatskill%2dmountain%2dnews&HitCount=2&hits=1695+16b1+&SearchForm=D%3a%5ccatskill%2dmountain%2dnews%5cdtSearch%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf | archive-date=2012-04-25}}

| alma_mater =

| player_years1 = 1892–1895

| player_team1 = Penn

| player_years2 = 1898–1899

| player_team2 = Duquesne Country and AC

| player_years3 = 1900

| player_team3 = Homestead Library & AC

| player_positions = Tackle

| coach_years1 = 1896

| coach_team1 = Alabama

| coach_years2 = 1897

| coach_team2 = Iowa

| overall_record = 6–5

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Otman Franklin "Otto" Wagonhurst (sometimes spelled Wagenhorst or Wagenhurst; April 25, 1871 – June 15, 1932) was an American football player and coach. Wagonhurst played college football as a left tackle at the University of Pennsylvania from 1892 to 1895. He served as the head football coach at the University of Alabama in 1896 and at the University of Iowa in 1897, compiling a career record of 6–5.{{cite web|title=Otto Wagonhurst Records by Year|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=2410|access-date=2011-10-28|archive-date=2014-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725210527/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=2410|url-status=dead}} After coaching college football, he played professionally for Pittsburgh's Duquesne Country and Athletic Club and the Homestead Library and Athletic Club. He won circuit championship titles with Duquesne in 1898{{cite web | title=Stars Over All-Stars | publisher=Professional Football Researchers Association | url=http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Articles/Stars_Over_All_Stars.pdf | author=PFRA Research | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126225257/http://profootballresearchers.org/Articles/Stars_Over_All_Stars.pdf | archivedate=November 26, 2010 }}

and 1899 and Homestead in 1900.{{cite journal | title=The Worst Season Ever, Pittsburgh Pro Teams Find Hard Times: 1900 | journal=Coffin Corner | publisher=Professional Football Researchers Association | issue=Annual | pages=1–2 | url=http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Articles/Worst_Season_Ever.pdf | author=PFRA Research | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218174114/http://profootballresearchers.org/Articles/Worst_Season_Ever.pdf | archivedate=December 18, 2010 }}

After his football career, he went on to become a railway executive. He died in 1932 in Jackson, Michigan and was buried in Akron, Ohio.

He was a brother of Woody Wagenhorst, head football coach at the University of Pennsylvania and briefly a major league baseball player, and Jim Wagenhorst, athlete at Penn and football player{{cite web|title=Ten Dollars and Cakes: The "Not Quite" First Pro: 1895 |publisher=Professional Football Researchers Association |url=https://www.profootballresearchers.org/articles/Ten_Dollars_And_Cakes.pdf |author=PFRA Research |access-date=February 19, 2024}} and manager{{cite news|newspaper=The Pittsburg Press|date=November 14, 1896|page=1|title=Late Sporting News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/141646866/|via=Newspapers.com}} for the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club.{{cite web|title=Elwood Otto Wagenhurst 1863–1946|work=Penn People|publisher=University Archives & Records Center, University of Pennsylvania|url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/elwood-otto-wagenhurst/|access-date=February 19, 2024}}