LeRoy Heminger

{{Short description|American football coach and college athletics administrator}}

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| name = LeRoy Heminger

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| birth_date = 1914

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| death_date = {{Death date|1977|3|27}} (aged 62)

| death_place = Franklin, Indiana, U.S.

| alma_mater = Franklin (BA)
Indiana (MS)

| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1946–1948

| coach_team2 = Shurtleff

| coach_years3 = 1949–1952

| coach_team3 = Franklin (IN)

| coach_sport4 = Basketball

| coach_years5 = c. 1941–1949

| coach_team5 = Shurtleff

| coach_years6 = 1963–1969

| coach_team6 = Emmerich Manual HS (IN)

| admin_years1 = 1938–1941

| admin_team1 = Paoli HS (IN)

| admin_years2 = 1946–1949

| admin_team2 = Shurtleff

| admin_years3 = 1969–1977

| admin_team3 = Emmerich Manual HS (IN)

| overall_record = 26–29–4 (college football)

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LeRoy Frederich Heminger (1914 – March 27, 1977) was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Shurtleff College in Alton, Illinois from 1946 to 1948 and Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana from 1949 to 1952.{{cite news|url=http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/sie_pioneer/id/304|title= The Shurtleff Pioneer|publisher=Shurtleff College|date=April 24, 1947|access-date=April 24, 2019}} Heminger was the athletic director at Paoli High School in Paoli, Indiana from 1938 until 1941, when he was hired by Shurtleff College.{{cite news |author= |title=Paoli Coach Takes Post At Shurtleff |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31295106/journal_and_courier/ |newspaper=Journal & Courier |location=Lafayette, Indiana |date=May 18, 1941 |page=6 |access-date=May 6, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} He also coached basketball and track at Shurtleff before he was hired in 1949 by Franklin College to coach football, baseball, and golf.{{cite news |author= |title=Shurtleff Coach Gets Franklin College Job |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31295085/the_dispatch/ |newspaper=The Dispatch |location=Moline, Illinois |agency=Associated Press |date=June 9, 1949 |page=21 |access-date=May 6, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}

Heminger was a graduate of Peru High School and Franklin College.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/ivian196400unse/ivian196400unse_djvu.txt|title=Vivian|year=1964|publisher=Emmerich Manual High School|access-date=April 24, 2019}} He died on March 27, 1977, at Johnson Country Memorial Hospital in Franklin.{{cite news |author= |title=LeRoy Heminger Dies at Franklin |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31294708/the_columbus_herald/ |newspaper=The Columbus Herald |location=Columbus, Indiana |agency=United Press International |date=April 1, 1977 |page=6 |access-date=May 6, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}

Hemminger served in the United States Navy and became a lieutenant (junior grade).