Harlan Disberry McChesney (June 12, 1895 â March 12, 1954) was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Kansas State Normal SchoolâÂÂnow known as Emporia State Universityâ in 1918 and at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin from 1920 to 1922, compiling a career college football coaching record of 20âÂÂ5âÂÂ1. McChesney was also the head basketball coach at Kansas State Normal for one season, in 1916âÂÂ17, and at Lawrence from 1920 to 1923, tallying a career college basketball coaching record of 28âÂÂ18.
McChesney was a veteran of the Iowa National Guard. He died in Utah of a cerebral hemorrhage 1954.