Lewie Hardage
| Lewie Hardage | |
|---|---|
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| Sport(s) | Football, baseball |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
February 11, 1891 Madison, Alabama |
| Died |
August 29, 1973 (aged 82) Melrose, Florida |
| Playing career | |
| 1908–1909 1911–1912 |
Auburn Vanderbilt |
| Position(s) | Halfback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football 1913 1915–1917 1921 1922–1931 1932–1934 1935 1936–1938 Baseball 1937–1939 |
Mercer McCallie School (TN) Gordon Military College Vanderbilt (backfield) Oklahoma Furman (backfield) Florida (backfield) Florida |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall |
13–17–5 (college football) 35–24–1 (college baseball) |
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Statistics | |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
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Awards
Third-team All-American (1912) 4x All-Southern (1908, 1909, 1911, 1912) 1912 All-time Vandy 2nd team Ranked by coach Dan McGugin as one of his six best players | |
Louis Woolford "Lewie" Hardage (February 11, 1891 – August 29, 1973) was an American college football player and college football and baseball coach. Hardage was an All-Southern halfback every year he played: 1908, 1909, 1911, and 1912—the first two for Mike Donahue's Auburn Tigers of Auburn University and the latter two for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University. He served as the head football coach at Mercer University in 1913 and at the University of Oklahoma from 1932 to 1934, compiling a career college football coaching record of 13–17–5. Hardage was later the head baseball coach at the University of Florida from 1937 to 1939, tallying a mark of 35–24–1.
Playing career
Hardage was a prominent halfback at two different schools, selected All-Southern every year he played.
Auburn
Hardage played two years for Mike Donahue's Auburn Tigers football team.
Vanderbilt
Hardage was a two-year letterman on Vanderbilt Commodores football team (1911–1912). The 1911 team lost one game by a single point to the only team able to score upon them, Michigan. In his senior year in 1912, Hardage was the captain of the team.[1] He also was selected third-team All-American by Walter Camp, the fourth ever Southern player to get such a recognition.[2] In both years, Vanderbilt was Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) champs. Innis Brown in 1912 wrote "Hardage has been rated as probably the most successful man in the south at making forward passes."[3]
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. In 1921, he took the job of the athletic director at Gordon Military College.[4] From 1922 to 1931, Hardage returned to his alma mater, Vanderbilt, as the backfield coach for the football team. He focused particularly on Gil Reese upon his arrival.[5] 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.[6]
Head coaching record
College football
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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| Mercer Bears (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1913) | |||||||||
| 1913 | Mercer | 2–5–1 | 0–4–1 | T–16th | |||||
| Mercer: | 2–5–1 | 0–4–1 | |||||||
| 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: | 13–17–5 | ||||||||
See also
- Auburn Tigers
- Florida Gators
- History of the University of Florida
- Oklahoma Sooners
- Vanderbilt Commodores
References
- ↑ "Vanderbilt Trio of Underclassmen to Captain 2003 Squad; Team Without Senior Captain for First Time Since World War I". Vanderbilt Athletic Department. June 9, 2003. Retrieved July 20, 2010.
- ↑ "On the Gridiron and Diamond". The Kappa Alpha Journal 30 (2): 211.
- ↑ "Innis Brown's All-Southern". Atlanta Constitution. December 1, 1912. Retrieved March 4, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Hardage Is G. M. C. Coach". Atlanta Constitution. June 26, 1921. Retrieved March 4, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Russell, Fred, and Maxwell Edward Benson. Fifty Years of Vanderbilt Football. Nashville, TN, 1938, p. 39-44, 67
- ↑ AP (August 30, 1935). "Furman Adds Lewie Hardage; Veteran Coach Will Handle Backfield". Spartanburg Herald-Journal. Retrieved July 20, 2010.
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