H. R. Schenker

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

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{{Infobox college coach

| name = H. R. Schenker

| image = HRSchenker.png

| alt =

| caption = Schenker pictured c. 1906 at Texas

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1882|4|21}}

| birth_place = Holyoke, Massachusetts, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1922|5|3|1882|4|21}}

| death_place = Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.

| alma_mater = Yale University

| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1906

| coach_team2 = Texas

| coach_years3 = 1907

| coach_team3 = Mercer

| coach_sport4 = Baseball

| coach_years5 = 1907

| coach_team5 = Texas

| overall_record = 12–4 (football)
16–8 (baseball)

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}}

Henry Richard Schenker (April 21, 1882 – May 3, 1922) was an American college football and college baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Texas at Austin in 1906 and at Mercer University in 1907, compiling a career college football head coaching record of 12–4. Schenker was also the head baseball coach at Texas in the spring of 1907, tallying a mark of 16–8.{{cite web |title=Texas Baseball History 2018 Fact Book |url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/texassports_com/documents/2018/2/13/Texas_Baseball_History_2018_Fact_Book.pdf |publisher=Texas Sports |access-date=October 25, 2019 |archive-date=October 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026121705/https://s3.amazonaws.com/texassports_com/documents/2018/2/13/Texas_Baseball_History_2018_Fact_Book.pdf |url-status=dead }}

Schenker was born on April 21, 1882, in Holyoke, Massachusetts.{{cite web|author=Denis Larionov & Alexander Zhulin |url=http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/james-h-hawley/history-of-idaho--the-gem-of-the-mountains-volume-4-hci/page-50-history-of-idaho--the-gem-of-the-mountains-volume-4-hci.shtml |title=Read the ebook History of Idaho : the gem of the mountains (Volume 4) by James H. Hawley |publisher=Ebooksread.com |access-date=November 9, 2011 }} He graduated from Yale University in 1905. He died on May 3, 1922, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after suffering from liver cancer.{{cite news |author= |title=Death Summons H. R. Schenker |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64322872/the-spokesman-review/ |newspaper=The Spokesman-Review |location=Spokane, Washington |date=May 5, 1922 |page=9 |access-date=November 30, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}{{cite book |author= |title=Yale University: Obituary Record of Graduates Deceased During the Year Ending July 1, 1922 |year=1921 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A55GAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA484 |pages=484–6 }}