John Chester Backus Pendleton[1] (September 26, 1871 – February 12, 1938) was an American college football coach and stockbroker from Baltimore.

[5] In the Quindecennial Record of Princeton's Class of 1892, issued in 1907, Pendleton was described as being "the stockbroking member of the '92 syndicate that runs Baltimore.

"[6] Pendleton wrote: "[T]he long, thing John, whom you once knew, is no more, as I now way two hundred and seventeen pounds in my birthday clothes.

"[6] At the time of the 1910 United States census, he was living with his wife and mother-in-law in Baltimore and was employed as a stockbroker.

He served in the United States Army as a first lieutenant in the Procurement Division at Washington, D.C. during World War I from August 20, 1918, to January 13, 1919.