Herbert W. Harmon

Herbert William Harmon (December 15, 1871 – September 22, 1956) was an American physicist, radio pioneer, and college football coach. Harmon was a physics professor at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. He also served three stints as the head football coach at Grove City, from 1906 to 1907, 1909 to 1913, and in 1915.

Harmon graduated from Hobart College, in Geneva, New York, in 1893 and Cornell University in 1895. At Cornell, he played on the varsity baseball team in 1894 and 1895. Harmon coached at St. John's Military Academy (now known as St. John's Northwestern Military Academy) in Delafield, Wisconsin before going to Southwestern Normal School (now known as Pennsylvania Western University, California), located in California, Pennsylvania, in 1898. He coached at California for eight years.

Harmon built the first functioning radio transmitter in Western Pennsylvania, on the Grove City College campus, in 1913. He died on September 22, 1956, in Grove City.