MacDonnell pictured in The Howler 1918, Wake Forest yearbook
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Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball |
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Biographical details | |
Born |
Hamilton, New York |
August 9, 1886
Died | March 30, 1956 McColl, South Carolina |
(aged 69)
Playing career | |
Football | |
1906–1909 | Colgate |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1914–1916 | LSU |
1917 | Wake Forest |
Basketball | |
1917–1918 | Wake Forest |
Baseball | |
1918 | Wake Forest |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 15–13–2 (football) 4–12 (basketball) 9–3 (baseball) |
Edward Thomas MacDonnell (August 9, 1886 – March 30, 1956) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Louisiana State University (LSU) from 1914 to 1916 and at Wake Forest University for one season in 1917, compiling a career college football record of 115–13–2. MacDonnell was also the head basketball coach at Wake Forest for the 1917–18 season, tallying a mark of 4–12, and the school's head baseball coach in the spring of 1918, notching a record of 9–3. MacDonald was an alumnus of Colgate University, graduating in 1910. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.