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| was | American football player | |
| Work field | Sports | |
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| Birth | 29 August 1918 | |
| Death | 5 February 1996 (aged 77 years) | |
| Star sign | Virgo |
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Robert J. Waldorf (August 29, 1918 – February 5, 1996) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa from 1940 to 1941 and at Western Maryland College–now known as McDaniel College–from 1957 to 1964, compiling a career college football coaching record of 44–38–6. In between his stints at Simpson and Western Maryland, Waldorf coached in the high school football ranks, at Battle Creek Central High School in Battle Creek, Michigan from 1946 to 1952 and Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia from 1953 to 1956.
Waldorf played college football at the University of Missouri, where he was a member of the 1939 College Football All-America Team as a guard. He was the brother of college football coaches Paul D. Waldorf, Pappy Waldorf and John D. Waldorf, as well as the son of Methodist Episcopal Church bishop Ernest Lynn Waldorf.
Head coaching record
College
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simpson Redmen (Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) | |||||||||
| 1940 | Simpson | 1–7–1 | 1–4–1 | 11th | |||||
| 1941 | Simpson | 3–5–1 | 1–4 | 10th | |||||
| Simpson: | 4–12–2 | 2–8–1 | |||||||
| Western Maryland Green Terror (Mason–Dixon Conference) | |||||||||
| 1957 | Western Maryland | 1–6–1 | |||||||
| 1958 | Western Maryland | 3–6 | |||||||
| 1959 | Western Maryland | 5–2–2 | |||||||
| 1960 | Western Maryland | 6–3 | T–1st | ||||||
| 1961 | Western Maryland | 7–2 | 4–0 | 1st | |||||
| 1962 | Western Maryland | 8–1 | 1st | ||||||
| 1963 | Western Maryland | 6–1–1 | 1st | ||||||
| 1964 | Western Maryland | 4–5 | |||||||
| Western Maryland: | 40–26–4 | ||||||||
| Total: | 44–38–6 | ||||||||