Edward Joseph McNichol (February 20, 1895 – after 1930) was the head men's basketball coach for the University of Pennsylvania from 1920 to 1930.
His first Penn team finished the season with a 21–2 record[1] and was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation.
[4] In his junior season in 1915–16, he was named a consensus All-American by the Helms Athletic Foundation.
[4][5] After his coaching career, he served in the United States Army during World War I.
[6] According to a 1919 edition of the Year Book of the Pennsylvania Society, McNichol was a sergeant in the 469th Railroad Engineers for the Army.