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Bill Hargiss, head coach at Oregon State and Kansas
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Bill Hargiss

Bill Hargiss went 102–⁠54–⁠16 as a head coach, 1910–⁠1932, at College of Emporia, Kansas State Normal, Oregon State, Kansas State Teachers and Kansas.

15 seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1910–⁠12 at College of Emporia; 1914–⁠17, 1920–⁠22 at Kansas State Normal (on file under another coach); 1923–⁠27 at Kansas State Teachers (on file under another coach). They’re marked in the table.

Record
102–⁠54–⁠16 career
Seasons
22
Schools
5
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1930 6–⁠2

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1568 in 1930
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1910College of Emporia *5–⁠3–⁠1
1911College of Emporia *5–⁠2
1912College of Emporia *7–⁠12nd
1913: not a college head coach
1914Kansas State Normal *5–⁠1–⁠1
1915Kansas State Normal *5–⁠2–⁠2T–1st
1916Kansas State Normal *6–⁠3–⁠11st
1917Kansas State Normal *5–⁠3–⁠12nd
1918Oregon State2–⁠4NA / 5th
1919Oregon State4–⁠4–⁠13rd / 6th
1920Kansas State Normal *2–⁠4–⁠2T–th
1921Kansas State Normal *6–⁠12nd
1922Kansas State Normal *6–⁠22nd
1923Kansas State Teachers *5–⁠1–⁠1T–2nd
1924Kansas State Teachers *3–⁠4–⁠2T–7th
1925Kansas State Teachers *4–⁠3–⁠1T–5th
1926Kansas State Teachers *7–⁠01st
1927Kansas State Teachers *7–⁠0–⁠1T–1st
1928Kansas2–⁠4–⁠25th
1929Kansas4–⁠45th
1930Kansas6–⁠21st
1931Kansas5–⁠54th
1932Kansas coached two of eight games1–⁠1

Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table. * A season our game records don’t credit to him; its record is the article’s.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against rivals144–⁠10
Conference games269–⁠16–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer226–⁠13–⁠3
At home2713–⁠12–⁠2
On the road2411–⁠12–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite3218–⁠11–⁠3
As our Elo’s underdog196–⁠13

His own 51 games on file, 1918–⁠1932, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.

Against other head coaches

CoachRecordTheir schoolsGames
Adrian Lindsey 1928–⁠19312–⁠2Oklahoma4
Bo McMillin 1928–⁠19312–⁠2Kansas State4
Gwinn Henry 1928–⁠19312–⁠2Missouri4
C. Noel Workman 1928–⁠19302–⁠0–⁠1Iowa State3
Dana Bible 1929–⁠19310–⁠3Nebraska3

Bill Hargiss’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Oklahomaseries52–⁠3
Missouriseries42–⁠2
Kansas Stateseries42–⁠2
Nebraskaseries40–⁠4
Iowa Stateseries32–⁠0–⁠1
Washington St. Louisseries32–⁠0–⁠1
Haskellseries21–⁠1
Oregonseries20–⁠2

Career

YearsTeamJob
1910–⁠12College of EmporiaHead coach
1913KansasAssistant coach
1914–⁠17Kansas State NormalHead coach
1918–⁠19Oregon AgriculturalHead coach
1920–⁠27Kansas State Normal/TeachersHead coach
1928–⁠32KansasHead coach

Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.

Coaching tree

Worked under

Bill Hargiss

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (1)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Arthur MosseKansas1913Assistant coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (2)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Pappy WaldorfKansas, 1928: line coachOklahoma State, Kansas State, Northwestern, California, Oklahoma City
Adrian LindseyKansas, 1932: assistant coachOklahoma, Kansas, Bethany (KS)

From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.