Garfield Weede

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]

Garfield Weede
Weede, suited up for football at Penn
Biographical details
Born(1880-11-26)November 26, 1880
Burlington, Iowa
DiedNovember 21, 1971(1971-11-21) (aged 90)
Wichita, Kansas
Playing career
Football
1901–1904Penn
Position(s)End, placekicker
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1906–1908Washburn
1910–1918Cooper Memorial
1919–1928Pittsburg State
Basketball
1919–1922Pittsburg State
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1905–1909Washburn
1919–1951Pittsburg State
Head coaching record
Overall87–64–13 (football)
30–32
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
Kansas Sports Hall of Fame
Walter Camp All-American Team, 1904
NAIA Track and Field Hall of Fame

Playing career

Garfield Weede played football at the University of Pennsylvania as an end and placekicker. He was severely injured in a game on October 1905.[2] Under head coach Carl S. Williams, the team was undefeated in 1904 with a record of 12–0 and has since retroactively been declared "national champions" for that year.[3]

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.[4] Football legend Walter Camp called him a "familiar winner" in one of his reviews of the program[5] and his 1907 team finished the season undefeated and untied with victories of Kansas State, Kansas, and Oklahoma.[6]

Cooper Memorial

Weede next became the head football coach at Cooper Memorial College—now known as Sterling College—in Sterling, Kansas.[7] He held that position for nine seasons, from 1910 until 1918. His coaching record at Cooper Memorial was 21–25–3. Weede is a member of the Sterling College Athletic Hall of Fame.[8]

Pittsburg State

In 1919, "Doc" Weede was hired as coach of all sports and director of athletics at Pittsburg Manual Training Normal in Pittsburg, Kansas. He coached the football team to a 46–33–6 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]

Doc 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.[10]

Legacy

Weede was inducted in the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1961.[11] Although he spent most of his time and efforts in college athletics, he also was a dentist, having earned a Doctor of Dental Surgery from the University of Pennsylvania in 1906.[12]

Head coaching record

Football
Year Team Overall ConferenceStanding Bowl/playoffs
Washburn Ichabods (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1906–1908)
1906 Washburn 8–1–3
1907 Washburn 8–01st
1908 Washburn 4–5–1
Washburn: 20–6–4
Cooper Memorial Barrelmakers (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1910–1918)
1910 Cooper Memorial 0–2–1
1911 Cooper Memorial 0–3
1912 Cooper Memorial 0–3
1913 Cooper Memorial 2–1
1914 Cooper Memorial 4–4
1915 Cooper Memorial 7–1–1
1916 Cooper Memorial 6–3
1917 Cooper Memorial 2–5–1
1918 Cooper Memorial 0–3
Cooper Memorial: 21–25–3
Pittsburg State Gorillas (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1919–1927)
1919 Pittsburg State 7–2–15–0–1T–1st
1920 Pittsburg State 5–4–13–3
1921 Pittsburg State 7–2–15–1–1
1922 Pittsburg State 4–53–4
1923 Pittsburg State 3–3–12–2–1
1924 Pittsburg State 7–0–15–0–1
1925 Pittsburg State 5–2–15–2
1926 Pittsburg State 2–61–5
1927 Pittsburg State 6–25–2
Pittsburg State Gorillas (Central Intercollegiate Conference) (1928)
1928 Pittsburg State 0–70–6
Pittsburg State: 46–33–634–25–4
Total:87–64–13

References
  1. Pittsburg State University Collegian "He believed in complete equality" by Monica Hart, February 25, 2010
  2. New York Times "PENNA., 16; GETTYSBURG, 6." October 5, 1905
  3. College Football Data Warehouse 1904 Penn Football Results
  4. Washburn University football history
  5. 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
  6. College Football in Kansas by Harold C. Evans, 1940
  7. "Football Media Guide" (PDF). Sterling Warriors. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
  8. DeLassus, David. "Sterling College Records By Year (incomplete data)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on June 22, 2015. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
  9. College Football Data Warehouse Pittsburg State University 1924 results
  10. College Football Data Warehouse Pittsburg State University 1928 results
  11. Kansas Sports Hall of Fame Garfield Weede
  12. General alumni catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania, 1922 By University of Pennsylvania. General Alumni Society, p717
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