Due to significant injuries to his players during practice, the faculty of his school forced the discontinuation of the football program for one year.
Schwender was the fifth head football coach at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin and he held that position for two seasons, from 1899 until 1900 and then returning from 1904 until 1905.
[1] Carroll college hired Mark D. Nave as head coach after Schwender stepped down.
Due to an abundance of injuries during football practice in 1903, the school started to disband the program.
The student body eventually gave in to the faculty demands and the team was forced to disband.