M. A. Leiper

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

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| name = M. A. Leiper

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1879|7|25}}

| birth_place = Malvern, Arkansas, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1936|6|17|1879|7|25}}

| death_place = Warren County, Kentucky, U.S.

| alma_mater = Columbia
Princeton

| coach_years1 = 1913

| coach_team1 = Western Kentucky

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Macon Anderson Leiper (July 25, 1879 – June 17, 1936) was an American football coach and college professor.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=49mrhwIK5SgC|title=Western Kentucky University|first=Lowell H.|last=Harrison|year=1987|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=0813127343|access-date=December 6, 2018}} He served as the head football coach at Western Kentucky University (then known as Western Normal School) during the 1913 college football season. Leiper also served as a professor of modern languages at WKU from 1908 until his death in 1936.{{cite web|url=https://www.wku.edu/modernlanguages/100_years_languages/index.php|title=100 Years|publisher=Western Kentucky University|access-date=December 6, 2018}}