William F. Garcelon

{{Short description|American politician, lawyer, sportsman, and coach (1868–1949)}}

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| name = William F. Garcelon

| image = 1908 William Garcelon Massachusetts House of Representatives.png

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1868|10|24}}

| birth_place = Lewiston, Maine, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1949|7|4|1868|10|24}}

| death_place = Beverly, Massachusetts, U.S.

| alma_mater =

| player_sport1 = Football

| player_years2 = 1889

| player_team2 = Bates

| player_years3 = 1893–1894

| player_team3 = Boston Athletic Association

| player_sport4 = Track and field

| player_years5 = 1893–1894

| player_team5 = Harvard

| player_positions = Halfback (football)

| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1894

| coach_team2 = Bates

| coach_sport3 = Track

| coach_years4 = 1898–1902

| coach_team4 = Bowdoin

| coach_years5 = 1904

| coach_team5 = Harvard

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William Frye Garcelon Jr. (October 24, 1868 – July 4, 1949) was an American politician, lawyer, college football player, track and field athlete, and coach. He served as the head football coach at Bates College in 1894.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica00unse|title=Who's Who in American Sports|publisher=National Biographical Society|year=1928|access-date=March 22, 2018}} Garcelon was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1907 and 1908.

Garcelon was born October 24, 1868, in Lewiston, Maine. He attended Bates College, where he played football and baseball and was a member of the track team. In 1893 and 1894, he played football at left halfback for the Boston Athletic Association (BAA).{{cite news |author= |title=What Appointment Of W. F. Garcelon Means |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97577575/the-boston-globe/ |newspaper=The Boston Globe |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=February 11, 1908 |page=4 |access-date=March 13, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1895. Garcelon coached track at Harvard in 1904 was the graduate manager of the Harvard Athletic Association from 1908 to 1913.{{cite news |author= |title=William F. Garcelon Ill |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97578417/the-boston-globe/ |newspaper=The Boston Globe |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=December 10, 1906 |page=5 |access-date=March 13, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} Around the same time, he was an athletics instructor at Roxbury Latin School in Boston and coached the track team at Portland High School in Portland, Maine. In 1933, Garcelon was elected president of the Boston Garden and became the head of the BAA in 1934. He died on July 4, 1949, at his home in Beverly, Massachusetts.{{cite news |author= |title=William F. Garcelon |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97576524/obituary-for-william-f-gaicelon/ |newspaper=The Boston Globe |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=July 5, 1949 |page=10 |access-date=March 13, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}