Lewie Hardage, head coach at Oklahoma
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Lewie Hardage

Lewie Hardage went 13–⁠17–⁠5 as a head coach, 1913–⁠1934, at Mercer and Oklahoma.

One season our game records don’t credit to him comes from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1913 at Mercer. It’s marked in the table.

Record
13–⁠17–⁠5 career
Seasons
4
Schools
2
AP poll
Began in 1936, after this career
Best season
1932 4–⁠4–⁠1

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1485 in 1934
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1913Mercer *2–⁠5–⁠1T–16th
1914–⁠31: not a college head coach
1932Oklahoma4–⁠4–⁠1T–2nd
1933Oklahoma4–⁠4–⁠13rd
1934Oklahoma3–⁠4–⁠23rd

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 rivals154–⁠10–⁠1
Conference games158–⁠6–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer154–⁠7–⁠4
At home137–⁠5–⁠1
On the road113–⁠5–⁠3
At neutral sites31–⁠2
As our Elo’s favorite117–⁠3–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog164–⁠9–⁠3

His own 27 games on file, 1932–⁠1934, 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
George Veenker 1932–⁠19343–⁠0Iowa State3
Frank Carideo 1932–⁠19342–⁠1Missouri3
Dana Bible 1932–⁠19340–⁠3Nebraska3
Pappy Waldorf 1932–⁠19340–⁠3Oklahoma State, Kansas State3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Iowa Stateseries33–⁠0
Missouriseries32–⁠1
Kansasseries32–⁠0–⁠1
Texasseries31–⁠2
Kansas Stateseries31–⁠2
Nebraskaseries30–⁠3
Oklahoma Stateseries30–⁠2–⁠1
Tulsaseries21–⁠1

Other roles

From each season’s Wikipedia article.

Career

YearsTeamJob
1913MercerHead coach
1915–⁠17McCallie School (TN) high schoolHead coach
1921Gordon Military CollegeHead coach
1922–⁠31VanderbiltBackfield coach
1932–⁠34OklahomaHead coach
1935FurmanBackfield coach
1936–⁠38FloridaBackfield coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Lewie Hardage
Worked under (3)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Dan McGuginVanderbilt1922–⁠31Backfield coach
Dizzy McLeodFurman1935Backfield coach
Josh CodyFlorida1936–⁠38Backfield coach

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.