William Dunlap McHenry (1932 to 2023) was an American football and lacrosse player who went on to coach and to run college athletic departments. At Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, he was an accomplished athlete who also played lacrosse and was chosen by the Washington Redskins in the sixth round of the 1954 NFL draft. He coached football at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania from 1961 to 1970, then returned to Washington and Lee in 1973 for five seasons, finishing with a college football coaching record of 56 wins, 70 losses and 3 ties. In 1958 Williams College hired him as head lacrosse coach and assistant football coach. He ended his career as athletic director of the College of Wooster from 1991 until he retired in 1996, and he died at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
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William Dunlap McHenry (June 20, 1932, January 4, 2023) was an American football and lacrosse player and coach and college athletics administrator.
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He also played lacrosse at Washington and Lee.
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