Dan Whelchel (August 26, 1894 – March 1, 1988) was a college football player and fruit horticulturalist.

[1] Dan was a first cousin of All-Southern Georgia Bulldogs football player Hugh Whelchel.

[1] He was a member of the school's first national championship team in 1917, having to join the American effort in the First World War before he got to celebrate.

[2] Whelchel later was a fruit horticulturalist in Arkansas, specializing in nuts.

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