{{Short description|American football player and coach (1899–1944)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox college coach | name = Jack Crangle | image = Jack Crangle.jpg | alt = | caption = Crangle from ''The Savitar'', 1930 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|6|8}} | birth_place = [[Onarga, Illinois]], U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1944|8|31|1899|6|8}} | death_place = [[Independence, Missouri]], U.S. | alma_mater = | player_sport1 = Football | player_years2 = 1919–1921 | player_team2 = [[Illinois Fighting Illini football|Illinois]] | player_years3 = 1923 | player_team3 = [[Chicago Cardinals]] | player_positions = [[Fullback (gridiron football)|Fullback]] | coach_sport1 = Football | coach_years2 = 1922–1923 | coach_team2 = [[St. Viator Irish football|St. Viator]] | coach_years3 = 1924 | coach_team3 = [[Arkansas Razorbacks football|Arkansas]] (line) | coach_years4 = 1925–? | coach_team4 = [[Missouri Tigers football|Missouri]] (assistant) | coach_years5 = 1942 | coach_team5 = [[Saint Louis Billikens football|Saint Louis]] (line) | coach_sport6 = Basketball | coach_years7 = ? | coach_team7 = [[St. Viator Irish|St. Viator]] | coach_sport8 = Baseball | coach_years9 = 1926–1932 | coach_team9 = [[Missouri Tigers baseball|Missouri]] | overall_record = 8–7–3 (football)<br>54–55 (baseball) | bowl_record = | tournament_record = | championships = * [[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS|National]] ([[1919 college football season|1919]]) | awards = * Second-team [[All-American]] ([[1920 College Football All-America Team|1920]]) * First-team [[All-Big Ten Conference football teams|All-Big Ten]] ([[1920 All-Big Ten Conference football team|1920]]) | coaching_records = }} '''Walter Francis''' "'''Jack'''" '''Crangle''' (June 8, 1899 – August 31, 1944) was an American [[American football|football]] [[Fullback (American football)|fullback]]. He played [[college football]] for the [[University of Illinois]] and was selected as an All-American in 1920 and 1921. He was a member of Illinois' [[Big Ten Conference]] championship teams in 1919 and 1920.<ref name=Obit/> He played one season of professional football for the [[Chicago Cardinals]] of the [[National Football League]]. He was selected as a second-team All-NFL player by Collyers Eye Magazine in 1923.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jack Crangle profile|publisher=pro-football-reference.com|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CranJa20.htm}}</ref> He also played minor league baseball in 1924 for Elgin in the Chicago League.<ref>{{cite news|title=JACK CRANGLE WILL PLAY WITH ELGIN|newspaper=Wisconsin State Journal|date=July 16, 1924}}</ref> Crangle later became a football and basketball coach at [[St. Viator College]], head baseball coach and assistant football coach under [[Gwinn Henry]] at the University of Missouri and assistant football coach at [[Saint Louis Billikens football|St. Louis University]].<ref name=HOT/> In his later years, he worked for the Aluminum Company of America and operated a filling station north of [[Columbia, Missouri]].<ref name=Obit/><ref name=HOT/> Crangle died at his home in [[Independence, Missouri]] at age 45 in 1944.<ref name=Obit>{{cite news|title='Jack' Crangle, Famous Illini Fullback, Dies|newspaper=Wisconsin State Journal |date=September 2, 1944}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Jack Crangle Dies of Heart Attack|newspaper=Moberly Monitor-Index (AP wire story)|date=September 1, 1944}}</ref> Following Crangle's death in 1944, Jack Ryan of the ''Chicago Daily News'' wrote that Crangle "rates high among the many good backs [[Bob Zuppke]] developed at the state university."<ref name=HOT/> Howard Millard of the ''Decatur Review'' wrote: "It doesn't seem possible that Jack Crangle, the big, easy going, likeable fellow, probably the greatest fullback in all Illinois University history, is dead."<ref name=HOT>{{cite news|title=His Own Team Stopped Crangle|newspaper=The Evening Courier (Champaign, IL)|date=September 5, 1944}}</ref>
==Head coaching record== ===Football=== {{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subhead | name = [[St. Viator Irish football|St. Viator]] | conf = [[Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference|Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]] | startyear = 1922 | endyear = 1923 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = [[1922 college football season|1922]] | name = St. Viator | overall = 3–4–1 | conference = 0–1 | confstanding = | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = [[1923 college football season|1923]] | name = St. Viator | overall = 5–3–2 | conference = 1–2 | confstanding = 16th | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = St. Viator | overall = 8–7–3 | confrecord = 1–3 }} {{CFB Yearly Record End | overall = 8–7–3 | bowls = no | poll = no | polltype = | legend = no }}
==See also== * [[1920 College Football All-America Team]] * [[1921 College Football All-America Team]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Find a Grave}}
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