Career
He served as the head football coach at Lehigh University from 1943 to 1945, compiling a record of 3–15–1. Prendergast was the 20th football head coach for the Lehigh Mountain Hawks. Prendergast was also the head basketball coach at Lehigh from 1943 to 1946, tallying a mark of 9–41.
He attended Lafayette College, where he played football as a lineman under Jock Sutherland, and from which he graduated in 1924.
Prendergast had previously been the head football coach at Bethlehem High School (1927-1937), and after World World War II was the line coach for the Bethlehem Bulldogs semi-professional football team
