1919 Chadron State Name Ray McCandless 1920–1923 Nebraska Wesleyan | 1924 Bethany (WV) 1920–1922 Nebraska Wesleyan Role American football player | |
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Sport(s) Football, basketball, baseball Born October 6, 1889
Broken Bow, Nebraska ( 1889-10-06 ) 1923 Bowling Green State Normal Died January 8, 1931, York, Nebraska, United States | ||
Raymond Beebe McCandless (October 6, 1889 – January 8, 1931) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Chadron State College in 1919, at Nebraska Wesleyan University from 1920 to 1922, at Bowling Green State Normal School—now known as Bowling Green State University—in 1923, and at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia for the 1924 season, and compiling a career college football record of 23–24–4. McCandless was also the head basketball coach at Nebraska Wesleyan from 1920 to 1923, at Bowling Green State Normal during the 1923–24 season, and at Bethany for the 1924–25 season, amassing a career college basketball record of tallying a mark of 60–43. In addition, he was the head baseball coach at Bowling Green State Normal in the spring of 1924, tallying a mark of 2–2–2. McCandless played football at Nebraska Wesleyan.