Charles Aaron "Jack" West (March 13, 1890 – October 29, 1957) was an American gridiron football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator He served as the head football coach at South Dakota State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts—now South Dakota State University—from 1919 to 1927 and at the University of North Dakota from 1928 to 1941 and again in 1945, compiling a career college football gead coaching record of 134–54–14. West was also the head basketball coach at South Dakota State from 1919 to 1926 and at North Dakota during the 1944–45 season, amassing a career college basketball head coaching record of 74–66. He coached football teams to 11 North Central Conference (NCC) titles, three at South Dakota State and eight at North Dakota. In addition, he served as North Dakota's athletic director from 1928 to 1946. West left the college ranks in 1946 to become head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, then of the Western Interprovincial Football Union, now a division of the Canadian Football League (CFL).[1] He died at the age of 67, on October 29, 1957, at his home in Grand Forks, North Dakota.[2]
Head coaching record
College football
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota State Jackrabbits (Independent) (1919–1921) | |||||||||
| 1919 | South Dakota State | 4–1–1 | |||||||
| 1920 | South Dakota State | 4–2–1 | |||||||
| 1921 | South Dakota State | 7–1 | |||||||
| South Dakota State Jackrabbits (North Central Conference) (1922–1927) | |||||||||
| 1922 | South Dakota State | 5–4–1 | 4–1–1 | 1st | |||||
| 1923 | South Dakota State | 3–4 | 2–3 | 4th | |||||
| 1924 | South Dakota State | 7–1 | 5–0 | 1st | |||||
| 1925 | South Dakota State | 2–3–2 | 1–1–2 | 5th | |||||
| 1926 | South Dakota State | 8–0–3 | 3–0–2 | 1st | |||||
| 1927 | South Dakota State | 5–3 | 2–2 | T–3rd | |||||
| South Dakota State: | 45–19–8 | 17–7–5 | |||||||
| North Dakota Flickertails / Fighting Sioux (North Central Conference) (1928–1941) | |||||||||
| 1928 | North Dakota | 6–1–1 | 4–0 | 1st | |||||
| 1929 | North Dakota | 9–1 | 4–0 | 1st | |||||
| 1930 | North Dakota | 9–1 | 4–0 | 1st | |||||
| 1931 | North Dakota | 8–1–2 | 4–0 | 1st | |||||
| 1932 | North Dakota | 7–1 | 2–1 | 2nd | |||||
| 1933 | North Dakota | 3–5–1 | 1–2–1 | 3rd | |||||
| 1934 | North Dakota | 7–1 | 3–1 | 1st | |||||
| 1935 | North Dakota | 6–2–2 | 3–0–2 | 2nd | |||||
| 1936 | North Dakota | 9–2 | 4–0 | 1st | |||||
| 1937 | North Dakota | 4–4 | 3–0 | 1st | |||||
| 1938 | North Dakota | 6–2 | 3–1 | 2nd | |||||
| 1939 | North Dakota | 5–3 | 4–1 | T–1st | |||||
| 1940 | North Dakota | 5–4 | 3–1 | 2nd | |||||
| 1941 | North Dakota | 4–5 | 3–1 | 3rd | |||||
| North Dakota Fighting Sioux (North Central Conference) (1945) | |||||||||
| 1945 | North Dakota | 1–2 | NA | NA | |||||
| North Dakota: | 89–35–6 | 43–8–3 | |||||||
| Total: | 134–54–14 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth | |||||||||
References
- ^ "West to Coach Winnipeg Team" (PDF). The New York Times. Associated Press. March 22, 1946. Retrieved December 9, 2011.
- ^ "Jack West Dies At Grand Forks". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. Associated Press. October 30, 1957. Retrieved December 9, 2011 – via Google News.
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