Charles Thomas (American football)

Charles Thomas
Biographical details

Sport(s)	Football
Born	c. 1872 Omaha, Nebraska
Died	September 19, 1920 (aged 48) Omaha, Nebraska
Playing career
1891–1892	Michigan
Position(s)	Guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1893–1894	Nebraska (assistant)
1895	Nebraska
1901–1902	Arkansas
Head coaching record
Overall	15–11
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1 WIUFA (1895)

Charles Ladd Thomas (c. 1872 – September 19, 1920) was an American football player and coach. A native of Omaha, Nebraska,^[1] Thomas enrolled at the University of Michigan where he played at the guard position for the Michigan Wolverines football teams of 1891 and 1892.^[2] After graduating from Michigan in 1893, Thomas returned to Nebraska where he served as an assistant football coach at the University of Nebraska under Frank Crawford in 1893 and 1894. In 1895, he took over as Nebraska's head football coach, posting a 6–3 record. From 1901 to 1902, he served as the head football coach at Arkansas, where he compiled a 9–8 record. As a head coach, his overall record was 15–11.

Nebraska

After Frank Crawford left Nebraska to go to the University of Texas in 1894, Thomas became the head coach for the 1895 season. He remained the coach for one year and had a 6–3 record while winning a share of the Western Interstate University Football Association title. Thomas took the Nebraska football team on its first long road trip with a game in Butte, Montana to play Butte's local athletic club.^[3]

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Nebraska Bugeaters (Western Interstate University Football Association) (1895)
1895	Nebraska	6–3	2–1	T–1st
Nebraska:		6–3	2–1
Arkansas Cardinals (Independent) (1901–1902)
1901	Arkansas	3–5
1902	Arkansas	6–3
Arkansas:		9–8
Total:		15–11
National championship Conference title Conference division title

References

External links

Charles Thomas at the College Football Data Warehouse

Arkansas Razorbacks head football coaches

John C. Futrall (1894–1896)
B. N. Wilson (1897–1898)
Colbert Searles (1899–1900)
Charles Thomas (1901–1902)
D. A. McDaniel (1903)
Ancil D. Brown (1904–1905)
Frank Longman (1906–1907)
Hugo Bezdek (1908–1912)
E. T. Pickering (1913–1914)
T. T. McConnell (1915–1916)
Norman C. Paine (1917–1918)
James B. Craig (1919)
George McLaren (1920–1921)
Francis Schmidt (1922–1928)
Fred Thomsen (1929–1941)
George Cole (1942)
John Tomlin (1943)
Glen Rose (1944–1945)
John Barnhill (1946–1949)
Otis Douglas (1950–1952)
Bowden Wyatt (1953–1954)
Jack Mitchell (1955–1957)
Frank Broyles (1958–1976)
Lou Holtz (1977–1983)
Ken Hatfield (1984–1989)
Jack Crowe (1990–1992)
Joe Kines # (1992)
Danny Ford (1993–1997)
Houston Nutt (1998–2007)
Reggie Herring # (2007)
Bobby Petrino (2008–2011)
John L. Smith (2012)
Bret Bielema (2013– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim coach.

Nebraska Cornhuskers head football coaches

Langdon Frothingham (1890)
Theron Lyman (1891)
J. S. Williams (1892)
Frank Crawford (1893–1894)
Charles Thomas (1895)
Eddie N. Robinson (1896–1897)
Fielding H. Yost (1898)
Alonzo Edwin Branch (1899)
Walter C. Booth (1900–1905)
Amos Foster (1906)
William C. "King" Cole (1907–1910)
Ewald O. Stiehm (1911–1915)
E. J. Stewart (1916–1917)
William G. Kline (1918)
Henry Schulte (1919–1920)
Fred Dawson (1921–1924)
Ernest Bearg (1925–1928)
Dana X. Bible (1929–1936)
Biff Jones (1937–1941)
Glenn Presnell (1942)
Adolph J. Lewandowski (1943–1944)
George Clark (1945)
Bernie Masterson (1946–1947)
George Clark (1948)
Bill Glassford (1949–1955)
Pete Elliott (1956)
Bill Jennings (1957–1961)
Bob Devaney (1962–1972)
Tom Osborne (1973–1997)
Frank Solich (1998–2003)
Bo Pelini # (2003)
Bill Callahan (2004–2007)
Bo Pelini (2008–2014)
Barney Cotton # (2014)
Mike Riley (2015– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim coach.

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