Career
He played college football at the University of Tennessee, Xavier University, Bowling Green State University and lastly the University of Notre Dame. He first enrolled at Bellevue High School before transferring to Saint Xavier High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mergenthal earned All Number.
Kentucky, All-Conference and All-State honors in football at Bellevue High School.
He also participated in track and field for four years. He was inducted into the Bellevue Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005.
Mergenthal graduated from Saint Xavier High School in 1939. Mergenthal first played college football for the Tennessee Volunteers before playing for the Xavier Musketeers, Bowling Green Falcons and lastly the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams
Mergenthal played in nineteen games, starting three, for the Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams from 1945 to 1946.
Mergenthal was a principal in the Bellevue School system for over thirty years.
