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American football and basketball coach

R. W. Bechtel
Biographical details
Died	1955 Milwaukie, Oregon, U.S.
Playing career
Football
1914–1916	Wittenberg

Position(s)	Quarterback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1922–1923	Baldwin–Wallace
1924–1926	Albion
Basketball
1922–1924	Baldwin–Wallace
1924–1927	Albion

Head coaching record
Overall	22–17–4 (football) 56–28 (basketball)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Basketball 1 MIAA (1927)

Reuben William "Rube" Bechtel (? – 1955) was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Baldwin–Wallace College—now known as Baldwin Wallace University—from 1922 to 1923 and at Albion College from 1924 to 1926, compiling a career college football coaching record of 22–17–4. Bechtel was also the head basketball coach at Baldwin–Wallace from 1922 to 1924 and Albion from 1924 to 1927, tallying a career college basketball coaching mark of 56–28.

Bechtel graduated in 1917 from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. He died in 1955, in Milwaukie, Oregon.

Head coaching record

Football


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Baldwin–Wallace Yellow Jackets (Independent) (1922–1923)
1922	Baldwin–Wallace	4–3–1
1923	Baldwin–Wallace	5–2–1
Baldwin–Wallace:		9–5–2
Albion (Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1924–1926)
1924	Albion	6–3	4–1	2nd
1925	Albion	3–4–2	3–1–1	2nd
1926	Albion	4–5	1–3	T–4th
Albion:		13–12–2	8–5–1
Total:		22–17–4

References

"Former Albion Director Dies in Milwaukie, Ore". Lansing State Journal. Lansing, Michigan. July 19, 1955. p. 20. Retrieved July 26, 2023 – via Newspapers.com .
"Deaths And Funerals". The Daily Sentinel-Tribune. Bowling Green, Ohio. July 18, 1955. p. 2. Retrieved July 26, 2023 – via Newspapers.com .

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Thomas Andrew Gill (1913)
Otto Carpell (1914)
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R. W. Bechtel (1924–1926)
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