Paul Bixler

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Paul O. Bixler
Sport(s)	Football, basketball
Biographical details
Born	(1907-01-25)January 25, 1907
Died	November 18, 1985(1985-11-18) (aged 78) Cleveland, Ohio
Playing career
1928	Mount Union
Position(s)	Guard, fullback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football 1939–1941 1945 1946 1947–1951 Basketball 1936–1939 1939–1941	Colgate (assistant) Ohio State (assistant) Ohio State Colgate Akron Colgate
Head coaching record
Overall	18–30–4 (football) 52–27 (basketball)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse

Paul O. Bixler (January 25, 1907 – November 18, 1985) was an American football player, coach, and administrator and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Ohio State University for one season in 1946 and at Colgate University from 1947 to 1951, compiling a career record of 18–30–4. Bixler was also the head basketball coach at the University of Akron (1936–1939) and Colgate (1939–1941), tallying a mark of 52–27. He later served as director of player personnel for the Cleveland Browns of the NFL.

Bixler was a 1929 graduate of Mount Union College where he was a member of Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity and played guard and fullback on the football team. He started his coaching career in Canton, Ohio at Canton Central Junior High and then at Canton McKinley High School. He then became an assistant football coach at the University of Akron where he also served as head basketball coach.

Bixler was the 24th head football coach at Colgate University located in Hamilton, New York and he held that position for five seasons, from 1947 until 1951. His overall coaching record at Colgate was 14–27–2, ranking him tenth total wins and 26th in winning percentage in school history.

He died after suffering a heart attack in 1985.^[1]

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Ohio State Buckeyes (Big Ten Conference) (1946)
1946	Ohio State	4–3–2	2–3–1	T–6th
Ohio State:		4–3–2	2–3–1
Colgate Raiders (Independent) (1947–1951)
1947	Colgate	1–5–2
1948	Colgate	3–6
1949	Colgate	1–8
1950	Colgate	5–3
1951	Colgate	4–5
Colgate:		14–27–2
Total:		18–30–4

References

↑ "Former Buckeye coach dies, was 77", Gettysburg Times, Tuesday, November 19, 1985, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States Of America

External links

Paul Bixler at the College Football Data Warehouse
Paul Bixler at College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

Akron Zips men's basketball head coaches

No coach (1901–1904)
Earl Williams (1904–1908)
Dwight Bradley (1908)
Walter East (1908–1909)
Clarence Weed (1909–1910)
Frank Haggerty (1910–1915)
Fred Sefton (1915–1924)
James W. Coleman (1924–1925)
Fred Sefton (1925–1927)
Red Blair (1927–1936)
Paul Bixler (1936–1939)
Thomas Dowler (1939–1940)
Russell Beichly (1940–1959)
Tony Laterza (1959–1968)
Wyatt Webb (1968–1975)
Alex Adams (1975–1976)
Ken Cunningham (1976–1980)
Bob Rupert (1980–1984)
Bob Huggins (1984–1989)
Coleman Crawford (1989–1995)
Dan Hipsher (1995–2004)
Keith Dambrot (2004– )

Ohio State Buckeyes head football coaches

Alexander S. Lilley (1890–1891)
Frederick Bushnell "Jack" Ryder (1892–1895)
Charles A. Hickey (1896)
David Farragut Edwards (1897)
Frederick Bushnell "Jack" Ryder (1898)
John B. Eckstorm (1899–1901)
Perry Hale (1902–1903)
Edwin Sweetland (1904–1905)
Albert E. Herrnstein (1906–1909)
Howard Jones (1910)
Harry Vaughan (1911)
John R. Richards (1912)
John Wilce (1913–1928)
Sam Willaman (1929–1933)
Francis Schmidt (1934–1940)
Paul Brown (1941–1943)
Carroll Widdoes (1944–1945)
Paul Bixler (1946)
Wes Fesler (1947–1950)
Woody Hayes (1951–1978)
Earle Bruce (1979–1987)
John Cooper (1988–2000)
Jim Tressel (2001–2010)
Luke Fickell (2011)
Urban Meyer (2012–)

Colgate Red Raiders / Raiders men's basketball head coaches

Ellery Huntington, Sr. (1900–1913)
Walt Hammond (1913–1919)
William Reid (1919–1928)
Lloyd Jordan (1928–1932)
Robert Hubbard (1932–1935)
John Galloway (1935–1939)
Paul Bixler (1939–1941)
Karl J. Lawrence (1941–1949)
Howard Hartman (1949–1962)
Bob Dewey (1962–1964)
Bob Duffy (1964–1967)
Ed Ashnault (1967–1972)
Bill Vesp (1972–1976)
Mike Griffin (1976–1982)
Tony Relvas (1982–1986)
Joe Baker (1986–1989)
Jack Bruen (1989–1998)
Paul Aiello # (1998)
Emmett Davis (1998–2011)
Matt Langel (2011– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Colgate Red Raiders / Raiders head football coaches

Samuel Colgate, Jr. (1890–1891)
Preston Smith (1892)
L. Jay Caldwell (1893)
Spencer Ford (1894)
L. Jay Caldwell (1895)
Joseph Colnon (1896)
Charles B. Mason (1897–1898)
Joseph Stannard (1899)
Joseph A. Short (1900)
Jerry Delaney (1901)
Frank "Buck" O'Neill (1902)
Bob Hatch (1903)
Frank "Buck" O'Neill (1904–1905)
Bill Warner (1906–1907)
Edwin Sweetland (1908)
Gus Brown (1909)
Laurence Bankart (1910)
Jack E. Ingersoll (1911)
Frank Sommers (1912)
Laurence Bankart (1913–1916)
Harold McDevitt (1917)
No team (1918)
Ellery Huntington, Jr. (1919–1921)
Dick Harlow (1922–1925)
George Hauser (1926–1927)
Earl Abell (1928)
Andrew Kerr (1929–1946)
Paul Bixler (1947–1951)
Hal Lahar (1952–1956)
Fred Rice (1957–1958)
Alva Kelley (1959–1961)
Hal Lahar (1962–1967)
Neil Wheelwright (1968–1975)
Frederick Dunlap (1976–1987)
Michael Foley (1988–1992)
Ed Sweeney (1993–1995)
Dick Biddle (1996–2013)
Dan Hunt (2014– )

Cleveland Browns 1954 NFL Champions

Cleveland Browns 1955 NFL Champions

Persondata
Name	Bixler, Paul
Alternative names
Short description	American football player and coach
Date of birth	January 25, 1907
Place of birth
Date of death	1985
Place of death

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