F. William "John" Rane was an American college football coach.
He served as the second head football coach at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia and he held that position for two seasons, from 1893 until 1894.
[1] Rane was the head coach for West Virginia's first victory on October 7, 1893, but the team still suffered a sound loss to Washington and Jefferson College by a score of 52 to 0,[2] a bitter repeat of the previous year's loss to Washington and Jefferson by a score of 72 to 0.
[3] # denotes interim head coach
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