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Wabash College is a private liberal arts men's college in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Founded in 1832 by several Dartmouth College graduates and Midwestern leaders, it enrolls nearly 900 students. The college offers an undergraduate liberal arts curriculum in three academic divisions with 39 majors. [ 7 ]
Bert Inks, coached the Wabash College Presbyterians in 1905 [3] Ward Lambert, college basketball coach; Don Leppert, Major League Baseball player, homered in first at-bat, first position player All-Star in Washington-Texas franchise history; Ward Meese, National Football League player
Incidentally, both head coaches that season, Pete Vaughan of Wabash and Knute Rockne of Notre Dame, had played college football together for the Fighting Irish. [8] [9] A further connection between the schools was College Football Hall of Fame inductee Jesse Harper, who coached Wabash from 1909 to 1912, and then Notre Dame from 1913 to 1917.
The Wabash Little Giants football program is a college football team that represents Wabash College in the North Coast Athletic Conference, a part of the NCAA Division III. The team has had 34 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1884. The current coach is Jake Gilbert who first took the position for the 2025 season. [1]
The city was founded in 1823 on the bank of Sugar Creek, a southern tributary of the Wabash River and named for U.S. Treasury Secretary William H. Crawford. The city is home to Wabash College, a private liberal arts men's college, and the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, a National Historic Landmark.
For 167 years, Wabash College's first Black student was shrouded in anonymity. Now, he's an honorary alumni. Wabash College’s first Black student just got his degree — 167 years later
The 1921–22 Wabash College team won the championship game, 43–23, over Kalamazoo College. [10] Wabash finished with a season record of 21–3, winning all three tournament games in convincing fashion. They were coached by Robert E. "Pete" Vaughan and their players were Fred Adam, Paul Schanlaub, Lon Goldsberry, John Burns, and Clyde Grater.
He was ordained by the Presbytery of Newburyport the same year and sent as a missionary to Wabash, Indiana. His great work was in founding and building up Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, of which, in 1834, he was appointed financial agent and professor of rhetoric. Subsequently, he was made professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and ...