Sport(s) Football Name Garfield Weede | 1910–1918 Cooper Overall 70–37–10 Positions End, Placekicker | |
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Born November 26, 1880Burlington, Iowa ( 1880-11-26 ) Died November 21, 1971, Wichita, Kansas, United States | ||
Garfield Wilson Weede (November 26, 1880 – November 21, 1971) was a college football, track & field coach and athletic director in the United States. He was one of the first college coaches to "break the color line" and allow racial integration among his players.
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Playing career
Garfield Weede played football at the University of Pennsylvania as an end and placekicker. He was severely injured in a game on October 1905. Under head coach Carl Sheldon Williams, the team was undefeated in 1904 with a record of 12–0–0 and has since retroactively been declared "National Champions" for that year.
Washburn
Weede was the tenth head football coach for Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. He held the position for three seasons, from 1906 until 1908, and followed legendary John H. Outland. Weede's coaching record at Washburn was 20 wins, 6 losses, and 4 ties. As of the conclusion of the 2007 season, this ranks him eighth at Washburn in terms of total wins and ninth at Washburn in terms of winning percentage. Football legend Walter Camp called him a "familiar winner" in one of his reviews of the program and his 1907 team finished the season undefeated and untied with victories of Kansas State, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
Sterling
Weede next became the head football coach for the Sterling Warriors (called "Cooper College" at the time) located in Sterling, Kansas. He held that position for 9 seasons, from 1910 until 1918. His coaching record at Sterling was 34 wins, 30 losses and 4 ties. As of the conclusion of the 2012 season, this ranks him #3 at Sterling in total wins and #9 at the school in winning percentage (.529).
Pittsburg State
In 1919, "Doc" Weede was hired as coach of all sports and director of athletics at Pittsburg Manual Training Normal in Pittsburg, Kansas. He coached the football team to a 50–31–6 record from 1919 to 1928 including the school's first undefeated team in 1924. That year, his team was declared Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference champions.
Doc Weede ended his football coaching career on a downturn, losing every game of his final season of 1928. His squad only scored in two of seven games and allowed a total of 113 points.
Legacy
Weede was inducted in the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1961. Although he spent most of his time and efforts in college athletics, he also was a dentist, having earned a Doctor of Dental Surgery from the University of Pennsylvania in 1906.