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Rip "Rip" Engle
Position: Coach
School: Brown, Penn State
Years: 1944-1965
Inducted: 1973
Place of Birth: Elk Lick, PA
Date of Birth: 3/26/1906
Place of Death: Bellefonte, PA
Date of Death: 3/7/1983
Member Biography:
Charles "Rip" Engle got his first job at age 14, driving a mule in
a Pennsylvania coal mine. He became a mine supervisor at 19,
finished high school, and moved on to Blue Ridge College
(now extinct). He played there in the first football game he
ever saw. He switched to Western Maryland and in 1929 was
a star end on a football team that went 11-0. He graduated at
age 24 in 1930. Engle's first coaching job was at
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, High School, where he won his
conference 8 of 11 years. He moved to Brown University as
assistant coach, was head coach there 1944-49 with a 28-20-
4 record. He coached Penn State 1950-65 with a 104-48-4
record. His early Penn State teams featured the wing T and
later teams the multiple T. The 1961, 1962, 1964 teams won
the Lambert Trophy, emblematic of the eastern championship.
Engle served three years as coach in the Blue-Gray Game and
three in the Shrine East-West Game. He was born March 26,
1906, in Elk Lick, Pennsylvania; he died March 7, 1983.
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