Wynfred Emory Allen (June 6, 1873 â September 20, 1947) was an American football and basketball coach and biologist. He served as the head football coach at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana from 1896 to 1897, Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin in 1903, and Kearney State Normal SchoolâÂÂnow known as the University of NebraskaâÂÂKearneyâÂÂfrom 1905 to 1906. Allen was also the head basketball coach at Kearney State in 1906âÂÂ07.
In 1910, Allen served as an assistant zoology professor at the University of Illinois at UrbanaâÂÂChampaign, and from 1919 to 1943, he worked as a biologist at the Scripps Institution for Biological Research.