Wynfred E. Allen
{{Short description|American sports coach and biologist (1873–1947)}}
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| name = Wynfred E. Allen
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1873|6|6}}
| birth_place = West Newton, Indiana, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1947|9|20|1873|6|6}}
| death_place = Santa Paula, California, U.S.
| alma_mater = Earlham (1898)
| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = 1894–1895
| player_team2 = Springfield YMCA
| player_years3 = 1896–1897
| player_team3 = Earlham
| player_sport4 = Basketball
| player_years5 = {{Circa|1895}}
| player_team5 = Springfield YMCA
| player_sport6 = Baseball
| player_years7 = {{Circa|1895}}
| player_team7 = Springfield YMCA
| player_positions = Fullback, guard (football)
Center (basketball)
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1896–1897
| coach_team2 = Earlham
| coach_years3 = 1898
| coach_team3 = West Texas Military
| coach_years4 = 1903
| coach_team4 = Lawrence
| coach_years5 = 1904
| coach_team5 = Epworth
| coach_years6 = 1905–1906
| coach_team6 = Kearney Normal
| coach_sport7 = Basketball
| coach_years8 = 1906–1907
| coach_team8 = Kearney Normal
| overall_record =
2–2 (college basketball)
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Wynfred Emory Allen (June 6, 1873 – September 20, 1947) was an American football and basketball coach and biologist. He served as the head football coach at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana from 1896 to 1897,{{cite journal |title=Epworth University Bulletin |url=https://archive.org/details/annualcatalogokl19okla_8/page/n77/ |publisher=Epworth University |date=July 15, 1904 |volume=1 |number=1 |page=76 |access-date=June 23, 2023 |via=Internet Archive }} Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin in 1903, and Kearney State Normal School—now known as the University of Nebraska–Kearney–from 1905 to 1906. Allen was also the head basketball coach at Kearney State in 1906–07.{{cite web|url=https://lopers.com/documents/2013/4/10/MBB_Coaches.pdf?id=1347|title=Men's Basketball Coaches|publisher=Nebraska–Kearney Lopers|access-date=December 6, 2018}}
In 1910, Allen served as an assistant zoology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and from 1919 to 1943, he worked as a biologist at the Scripps Institution for Biological Research.{{cite web|url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8rx9hns/|title=Wynfred Emory Allen papers|publisher=Online Archive of California|access-date=December 6, 2018}}
Head coaching record
=College football=
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Earlham Quakers
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1896
| endyear = 1897
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1896
| name = Earlham
| overall = 3–3
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| year = 1897
| name = Earlham
| overall = 2–4
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Lawrence
| overall = 5–7
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Lawrence Vikings
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1903
| endyear = single
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
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| year = 1903
| name = Lawrence
| overall = 6–3
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Lawrence
| overall = 6–3
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Epworth Methodists
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1904
| endyear = single
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| year = 1904
| name = Epworth
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| name = Epworth
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Kearney Normal Antelopes
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1905
| endyear = 1906
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
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| year = 1905
| name = Kearney Normal
| overall = 0–5–1
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1906
| name = Kearney Normal
| overall = 3–4–2
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Kearney Normal
| overall = 3–9–3
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| legend = no
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References
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