Mel Whedbee

Melville F. Whedbee (February 14, 1904 – July 11, 1974) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, Kentucky from 1961 to 1966. Whedbee joined the coaching staff at Kentucky State in 1959 as an assistant under Sam B. Taylor. He took over as head coach for an ailing Taylor midway through the 1961 season. Whedbee was succeeded as head football coach by Charles Bates in 1967, but remained as an instructor in the physical education department at Kentucky State.

Whedbee died on July 11, 1974, in Topeka, Kansas.