Bill Lange (coach)
Lange pictured in Yackety Yack 1943, North Carolina yearbook
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| Sport(s) | Football, basketball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
February 16, 1897 Cleveland, Ohio |
| Died | June 22, 1953 (aged 56) Wadsworth, Ohio |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| c. 1920 | Wittenberg |
| Basketball | |
| c. 1920 | Wittenberg |
| Position(s) | Tackle (football) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1923–1935 | Muskingum |
| 1936–1943 | North Carolina (assistant) |
| 1944 | Kenyon |
| Basketball | |
| 1923–1936 | Muskingum |
| 1939–1944 | North Carolina |
| 1944–1945 | Kenyon |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1923–1936 | Muskingum |
| 1944–1945 | Kenyon |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 219–144 (basketball) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Basketball 3 OAC regular season (1926–1928) 2 SoCon regular season (1941, 1944) 1 SoCon Tournament (1940) |
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William Fisher "Bill" Lange (February 16, 1897 – June 22, 1953) was an American basketball and football player and coach. He played college football and basketball for Wittenberg College from 1918 to 1921. During the 1922–23 season, he coached the Cleveland Rosenblums, an early professional basketball team that was known at the time as "the fastest basket ball aggregation in this part of the country." From 1923 to 1936, he was the athletic director and head football and basketball coach at Muskingum College in Ohio. He was best known for being the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team from 1939 through 1944.
Lange was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1897 and raised in Huron, Ohio. At the time of the 1910 United States Census in April 1910, Lange was living on a farm in Berlin Township, Erie County, Ohio, with his uncle, Adam Fisher, his mother, Mary Lange, and his younger sisters, Hilda and Murnice Lange.
Lange attended Huron High School where he starred on the basketball and football teams. In June 1918, Lange was employed by the Cleveland Stevedore Co. in Huron, Ohio. Lange joined the U.S. Naval Reserves in July 1918 and was called to active duty in November 1918. He served 108 days of active duty and attained the rank of seaman second class. At the time of the 1920 United States Census, Lange was living in Huron, Ohio, with his mother, Mary Lange, and his younger sister, Murnice Lange. He received his honorable discharge from the Naval Reserves in September 1921.
Lange subsequently enrolled at Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio. He played college football as a tackle on Wittenberg football teams that went undefeated for consecutive seasons in 1919 and 1920. His football coach at Wittenberg was Ernie Godfrey, who later served as a longtime assistant coach for the Ohio State Buckeyes football team and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972. Lange also played on Wittenberg's basketball team and was selected to the All-Ohio team in both sports. He graduated from Wittenberg in 1921.
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