Career
He served as the head football coach at seven different schools: Ohio Northern University (1903), Butler University (1904–1905), the University of Pittsburgh (1906), Louisiana State University (1907–1908), the University of Maine (1910–1911), Susquehanna University (1916–1917, 1919, 1924–1925), and Bucknell University (1918), compling a career record of 77–39–5. In 1908, Wingard led his Louisiana State University team to a record of 10–0. Wingard was the head coach of the basketball team at Butler from 1904 to 1906 and the head coach of the first Louisiana State University Tigers basketball team during the 1908-1909 season.
He also coached the Louisiana State University Tigers baseball team in 1908 and 1909 and the baseball team at Maine in 1911.
Wingard died of a cerebral hemorrhage in the summer of 1927 in hospital at Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.