Homer Woodson Hargiss
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| H. W. "Bill" Hargiss | ||
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| Sport | Football Track and Field |
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| Born | September 1, 1887 | |
| Place of birth | Cherokee County, Kansas | |
| Died | October 15, 1978[1] | |
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| Overall | 102-53-16 (football)[2] | |
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| Playing career | ||
| 1905-1909 | Emporia State | |
| Position | fullback[3] | |
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| 1910-1912 1913 1914-1917 1918-1919 1918-1920 1920-1927 1928-1932 |
College of Emporia (football) Kansas (asst) Emporia State (football) Oregon State (football) Oregon State (basketball) Emporia State (football) Kansas(football) |
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Homer Woodson "Bill" Hargiss (September 1, 1887–October 15, 1978) was a college football, basketball, and track coach. He was an early innovator in football and was known to be one of the first coaches to use the forward pass and the huddle.
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[edit] Achievements as an athlete
Hargiss participated in sports at Kansas Normal College, now Emporia State University. He was a standout at the college in football, baseball, basketball, gymnastics, boxing, and track & field. Emporia State honored him in 1982 by inducting him into their "Athletic Hall of Honor" -- the first year the honor was available[4], as a distinguished alumni in 1970 [5], and for the all-Centennial Team in 1997[6]. Hargiss would later return to the college as a coach.
[edit] Coaching years
[edit] College of Emporia
Hargiss's first coaching job came as the head coach of the College of Emporia (C of E) in Emporia, Kansas. The school had a well-developed rivalry with Kansas State Normal School, where Hargiss played quarterback the previous year, and would later coach.[7]
At C of E, Hargiss developed plays using talented quarterback Arthur Schabinger that most had never seen before--namely: the forward pass and the option pass.
[edit] Forward Pass
In the team's 1910 game at Washburn University, Arthur Schabinger has been credited by some to have thrown the first legal forward pass in college football history.[8] While this fact is disputed by other colleges, College of Emporia was certainly one of the first innovators of the play, and may indeed have been the first to throw "overhand" forward passes instead of "underhand" passes.[9] The school was using the forward pass as a regular play three years before Knute Rockne and Notre Dame Football.[10]
For the second to last game in 1910, Schabringer scored seven touchdowns in a 107-0 win over Pittsburg Normal. The forward pass played a major role in the game as well.[11]
[edit] Option Pass
Hargiss also ran the option pass play (possibly the first of all time) at the College of Emporia in 1910. The "option pass" play was a sweep to the end with halfbacks that would either pass or run depending on how the defensive play would develop. [12]
[edit] Oregon State University
Hargiss was the head football, basketball, and track coach at Oregon State University from 1918 to 1919[13]. During his tenure there, he compiled a 6-8-1 record.[14] From 1918–1920 he also coached the Oregon State Beavers basketball team.[15]
[edit] Emporia State University
Hargiss was the ninth and twelfth head football coach for Emporia State University (called Kansas Normal School at the time) in Emporia, Kansas and he held that position for twelve seasons, from 1914 until 1917 and then returning from 1920 until 1927. His overall coaching record at ESU was 61 wins, 23 losses, and 11 ties. This ranks him third at ESU in terms of total wins and first at ESU in terms of winning percentage.[16]
While at Kansas Normal, Hargiss coached the 1926 team to an undefeated season and outscored their opponents 144 to 3. The closest game of the season was a 6-0 battle against Hargiss's former team, the College of Emporia.[17]
[edit] University of Kansas
From 1928 to 1932 he served as the head football coach at University of Kansas. His record there was 18-16. Overall, he is one of only a handful of football coaches who ended their career with a .500 record going 24-24-3.
[edit] Football Developments
[edit] Use of the huddle
Oregon State was one of the very first schools nationally to use the huddle formation in a game. It happened against the University of Washington in Seattle in 1918. Beaver Head Coach "Bill" Hargiss instructed the starters that once they returned to the field, they were to stand 10 yards behind the ball before the beginning of each play and whisper to one another what they were going to do next.[18]
An eyewitness to the game was veteran Seattle sports columnist Royal Brougham, whose stories of the contest give testimony today to OSU's early use of this pioneering new formation. [19]
[edit] Forward Pass
While coaching at the College of Emporia, Hargiss would regularly use the forward pass and records show that it was used as early as 1910, three years before Knute Rockne began to regularly call the play.[20] [21]
[edit] Honors & legacy
- Charter Inductee Kansas Sports Hall of Fame 1961.[22]
- Inducted into the NAIA Track and Field Hall of Fame.[23]
- One of first coaches to use forward pass, unbalanced line, and huddle.[24]
- Head football and track and field coach at KU for 5 and 10 years respectively. Football conference champions in 1930. [25]
- Coached five world record holders in track: John Kuck[26], Glenn Cunningham[27], Jim Bausch[28], Clyde Coffman[29] and Peter Mehringer.[30]
- His 1926 football team at Emporia State University was undefeated and allowed only 3 points.[31] [32]
- Earned 16 college athletic letters at Kansas State Normal (Emporia State) participating in football, basketball, track and field, baseball, gymnastics and boxing and was named captain five times.[33]
- He was a three-sport standout at Beulah High School.[34]
- Was collegiate track coach of Senator Bob Dole[35]
- Was one of the first coaches to gather within hours after the reported death of coaching great Knute Rockne[36]
[edit] Personal Life
Hargiss graduated from Kansas Normal School in Emporia, Kansas. His brother, Floyd Daniel Hargiss was a football coach at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas.[37]
[edit] References
- ^ Ancestry.com, Homer Woodson Hargiss
- ^ Overall football coaching record for H. W. "Bill" Hargiss
- ^ http://www.oberheide.org/hargiss/1905%20College/For%20the%20sport%20of%20it/For%20the%20Sport%20of%20It.htm
- ^ Emporia State University Athletic Hall of Honor
- ^ http://www.oberheide.org/hargiss/Distinguished%20Alumnus/ESU%20distinguished%20alumnus.htm
- ^ http://www.oberheide.org/hargiss/ESU%20Centennial%20team/Centennial%20team.htm
- ^ Hargiss and football at the College of Emporia
- ^ Kansas Sports Hall of Fame Arthur Schabinger
- ^ Homer Hargiss History Definitive use of forward pass
- ^ Emporia Gazette, "The Emporia Gazette Give Credit to C. of E." by E. T. Lowther
- ^ Emporia Gazette, "First Hargiss Team Set Scoring Mark" by Ed Shupe, January 23, 1974
- ^ Oberheide.org Hargiss's Option Play
- ^ http://www.oberheide.org/hargiss/1918%20OAC/Barometer/30Sep1918/30Sept1918_Hargiss%20new%20football%20coach.htm
- ^ 2006 Football Media Guide - Year-By-Year Results (PDF) (English). Oregon State University. Retrieved on 2006-11-14.
- ^ 2005-06 Men's Basketball Media Guide - OSU Team History (PDF) (English) 18. Oregon State University. Retrieved on 2006-11-14.
- ^ http://www.emporia.edu/athletics/football/07ESUFBmediaguide.pdf#87
- ^ Oberheide.org, ESU 1926 season
- ^ http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv11/CFHSNv11n2c.pdf#2
- ^ Offensive huddle
- ^ Emporia Gazzette, 1910 Forward Pass
- ^ Definitive use of forward pass and the option pass in 1910 by Bill Hargiss
- ^ Kansas Sports Hall of Fame
- ^ NAIA Hall Fame
- ^ Home page for H. W. " Bill" Hargiss
- ^ Bill Hargiss at KU 1928
- ^ John Kuck
- ^ Glenn Cunningham
- ^ Jim Bausch
- ^ Clyde Coffman
- ^ Kansas Sports Hall of Fame
- ^ Kansas Sports Hall of Fame
- ^ 1926 ESU football
- ^ College 1905
- ^ Bill Hargiss' youth, 1887
- ^ Recovered letters describe Dole's life at KU and in WWII
- ^ Crash of Notre Dame legend left its mark in Kansas | Topeka Capital-Journal, The | Find Articles at BNET.com
- ^ Ancestry.com Floyd Daniel Hargiss
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