Lewie Hardage

Lewie Hardage
Sport(s) Football, baseball
Playing career
1908–1909
1911–1912
Auburn
Vanderbilt
Position(s) Halfback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1915–1917
1922–1931
1932–1934
1935
1936–1938

Baseball
1937–1939

McCallie School
Vanderbilt (backfield)
Oklahoma
Furman (backfield)
Florida (backfield)


Florida
Head coaching record
Overall Football: 11–12–4 (.481)
Baseball: 35–24–1 (.592)
Statistics
College Football Data Warehouse

Lewis Woodford Hardage was an American college football player and college football and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Oklahoma from 1932 to 1934, compiling a record of 11–12–4. Hardage was later the head baseball coach at the University of Florida from 1937 to 1939, tallying a mark of 35–24–1. He played college football as a halfback at Auburn University and Vanderbilt University.

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Playing career

Hardage was a two-year letterman on Vanderbilt Commodores football team (1911–1912). In his senior year in 1912, he was the captain of the team.[1]

Coaching career

After graduating from Vanderbilt, Hardage took several coaching jobs. He was head coach at The McCallie School, a boys’ college-preparatory school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, from 1915 to 1917, where he had a coaching record of 11–4–3. From 1922 to 1931, Hardage returned to his alma mater, Vanderbilt, as the backfield coach for the football team. In 1932, Hardage was hired as the head football coach at Oklahoma, where he coached for three seasons. He spent the 1935 season as an assistant football coach at Furman University before moving on to Florida where he became the backfield coach for the football team and the head coach of the baseball team.[2]

Head coaching record

College football

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Oklahoma Sooners (Big Six Conference) (1932–1934)
1932 Oklahoma 4–4–1 3–2 T–2nd
1933 Oklahoma 4–4–1 3–2 3rd
1934 Oklahoma 3–4–2 2–2–1 3rd
Oklahoma: 11–12–4 8–6–1
Total: 11–12–4

See also

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