Garfield Weede
 Weede, suited up for football at Penn | |
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 26, 1880 Burlington, Iowa, U.S. |
| Died | November 21, 1971 (aged 90) Wichita, Kansas, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1898–1900 | Cooper |
| 1901–1905 | Penn |
| Positions | Quarterback, end, placekicker |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1906–1908 | Washburn |
| 1910–1918 | Cooper |
| 1919–1928 | Pittsburg State |
| Basketball | |
| 1919–1922 | Pittsburg State |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1905–1909 | Washburn |
| 1919–1951 | Pittsburg State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 90–69–15 (football) 30–32 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 3 KCAC (1907, 1919, 1924) | |
| Awards | |
| Second-team All-American (1904) Kansas Sports Hall of Fame NAIA Track and Field Hall of Fame | |
Garfield Wilson Weede (November 26, 1880 – November 21, 1971) was an American football, basketball, and track and field coach and athletic director. He was one of the first college coaches to "break the color line" and allow racial integration among his players.[1]
Playing career
Weede played football at Cooper Memorial College—now known as Sterling College—as a quarterback from 1898 to 1900.[2] He then played at the University of Pennsylvania as an end and placekicker. He was severely injured in a game in October 1905.[3] Under head coach Carl S. Williams, the 1904 Penn Quakers football team was undefeated with a record of 12–0, and has since retroactively been declared a national champion for that year.[4]
Coaching career
Washburn
Weede was the tenth head football coach for Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, as well as the athletic director. He held the position for three seasons, from 1906 until 1908, and followed John H. Outland. Weede's coaching record at Washburn was 20–6–4.[5] Football legend Walter Camp called him a "familiar winner" in one of his reviews of the program[6] and his 1907 team finished the season undefeated and untied with victories of Kansas State, Kansas, and Oklahoma.[7]
Cooper
Weede next became the head football coach at Cooper Memorial College—now known as Sterling College—in Sterling, Kansas. He held that position for nine seasons, from 1910 until 1918. His coaching record at Cooper was 24–30–4.[8] Weede is a member of the Sterling College Athletic Hall of Fame.
Pittsburg State
In 1919, Weede was hired as coach of all sports and athletic director at Pittsburg Manual Training Normal in Pittsburg, Kansas. He coached the football team to a 46–33–7 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.[9]
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.[10] Although he spent most of his time and efforts in college athletics, he also was a dentist, having earned a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1906.[11]
Head coaching record
Football
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washburn Ichabods (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1906–1908) | |||||||||
| 1906 | Washburn | 8–1–3 | |||||||
| 1907 | Washburn | 8–0 | 1st | ||||||
| 1908 | Washburn | 4–5–1 | |||||||
| Washburn: | 20–6–4 | ||||||||
| Cooper Barrelmakers (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1910–1918) | |||||||||
| 1910 | Cooper | 0–3–1 | |||||||
| 1911 | Cooper | 0–4 | |||||||
| 1912 | Cooper | 2–4 | |||||||
| 1913 | Cooper | 3–3 | |||||||
| 1914 | Cooper | 4–4 | |||||||
| 1915 | Cooper | 7–1–1 | 6–1–1 | 3rd | |||||
| 1916 | Cooper | 6–3 | 6–3 | T–6th | |||||
| 1917 | Cooper | 2–5–1 | 2–5–1 | T–11th | |||||
| 1918 | Cooper | 0–3–1 | |||||||
| Cooper: | 24–30–4 | ||||||||
| Pittsburg State Gorillas (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1919–1927) | |||||||||
| 1919 | Pittsburg State | 7–2–1 | 5–0–1 | T–1st | |||||
| 1920 | Pittsburg State | 5–4–1 | 3–3 | 8th | |||||
| 1921 | Pittsburg State | 7–2–1 | 5–1–1 | 3rd | |||||
| 1922 | Pittsburg State | 4–5 | 3–4 | 10th | |||||
| 1923 | Pittsburg State | 3–3–2 | 2–2–2 | T–8th | |||||
| 1924 | Pittsburg State | 7–0–1 | 5–0–1 | 1st | |||||
| 1925 | Pittsburg State | 5–2–1 | 5–2 | 4th | |||||
| 1926 | Pittsburg State | 2–6 | 2–5 | T–12th | |||||
| 1927 | Pittsburg State | 6–2 | 5–2 | T–5th | |||||
| Pittsburg State Gorillas (Central Intercollegiate Conference) (1928) | |||||||||
| 1928 | Pittsburg State | 0–7 | 0–6 | 7th | |||||
| Pittsburg State: | 46–33–7 | 35–25–5 | |||||||
| Total: | 90–69–15 | ||||||||
References
- ^ Pittsburg State University Collegian[permanent dead link] "He believed in complete equality" by Monica Hart, February 25, 2010
- ^ "The Sterling Kansas Bulletin 19 Oct 1900, page 1". Newspapers.com. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
- ^ New York Times "Penna., 16; Gettysburg, 6." October 5, 1905
- ^ 2020 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records (PDF). Indianapolis: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. July 2020. pp. 112–114. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- ^ Washburn University football history
- ^ The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guide "The official rules book and record book of college football" (edited by Walter Camp) Can Sports Publishing Company, 1922
- ^ College Football in Kansas by Harold C. Evans, 1940
- ^ "Football Media Guide" (PDF). Sterling Warriors. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
- ^ "Teachers Are Kansas Champions". The Reformatory Herald. Hutchinson, Kansas. December 5, 1924. p. 4. Retrieved July 23, 2020 – via Newspapers.com
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- ^ "Kansas Sports Hall of Fame". Kansas Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved January 11, 2026.
- ^ General alumni catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania, 1922 By University of Pennsylvania. General Alumni Society, p. 717
