Walter Hempel (coach)

Walter Hempel
Biographical details
Born(1876-02-15)February 15, 1876
Dresden, Germany
DiedJune 17, 1949(1949-06-17) (aged 73)
Lake Tahoe, Nevada, U.S.
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1903Pomona
1905Sherman Institute (CA)
1907–1908St. Vincent's (CA)
Baseball
1903North Dakota
Track
1899Knox (IL)
1901Northwestern
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1903North Dakota
1906–1907St. Vincent's (CA)

Walter Hempel (February 15, 1876 – June 17, 1949) was an American football, baseball and track and field coach.[1] He served as the head football coach at Pomona College in 1903 and at St. Vincent's College in Los Angeles, California, from 1907 to 1908.[2] Hempel later worked in real estate in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. He was killed there on June 17, 1949, in an apparent robbery-murder by 29-year-old Mark Donnelly, an ex-convict with prior convictions for robbery, burglary, and auto theft.[3] Donnelly was briefly questioned in the murder of oilman W.A. Thornton.[4] In November 1949, Donnelly was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison after the jury recommended mercy.[5] He was denied parole in 1958.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Who's Who in California". Marquis Who's Who. 1928. Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  2. ^ "Los Angeles Then". Los Angeles Times. May 29, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  3. ^ "Real Estate Dealer Slain at Lake Tahoe". Reno Gazette-Journal. Reno, Nevada. June 20, 1949. p. 9. Retrieved September 25, 2018 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "1949 Jul 14 Oakland Tribune - Hempel and other murder linked". Oakland Tribune. July 14, 1949. p. 27. Retrieved November 18, 2025.
  5. ^ "Article clipped from The Press-Tribune". The Press-Tribune. November 4, 1949. p. 1. Retrieved November 18, 2025.
  6. ^ "Court activity". Reno Gazette-Journal. November 20, 1958. p. 13. Retrieved November 18, 2025.
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