Charles "Doc" Whelan (April 3, 1877 – May 29, 1945)[1] was an American football player and coach and physician.
He graduated from Weymouth High School in 1896 and entered Dartmouth College that fall.
After graduating, Whelan left athletics to work as a physician, but returned to football in 1910 as an assistant coach at Dartmouth.
[4] He returned to Tufts in 1912 and remained with the school until 1920 when he became supervisor of the Harvard Crimson track team and a professor of hygiene at Harvard College (he missed the 1918 season due to military service).
[5][6] His tenure at Harvard was short-lived as he submitted his resignation less than three months after taking the job to return to medicine.