Ray B. McCandless
Raymond Beebe McCandless (October 6, 1889 – January 8, 1931) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Chadron State College in 1919, at Nebraska Wesleyan University from 1920 to 1922, at Bowling Green State Normal School—now known as Bowling Green State University—in 1923, and at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia for the 1924 season, and compiling a career college football record of 23–24–4. McCandless was also the head basketball coach at Nebraska Wesleyan from 1920 to 1923, at Bowling Green State Normal during the 1923–24 season, and at Bethany for the 1924–25 season, amassing a career college basketball record of tallying a mark of 60–43. In addition, he was the head baseball coach at Bowling Green State Normal in the spring of 1924, tallying a mark of 2–2–2. McCandless played football at Nebraska Wesleyan.[1] He died on January 8, 1931, in York, Nebraska.[2]
![]() McCandless pictured in The Key 1924, Bowling Green yearbook | |
Biographical details | |
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Born | Broken Bow, Nebraska | October 6, 1889
Died | January 8, 1931 41) York, Nebraska | (aged
Playing career | |
Football | |
? | Nebraska Wesleyan |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1919 | Chadron State |
1920–1922 | Nebraska Wesleyan |
1923 | Bowling Green |
1924 | Bethany (WV) |
Basketball | |
1920–1923 | Nebraska Wesleyan |
1923–1924 | Bowling Green State Normal |
1924–1925 | Bethany (WV) |
Baseball | |
1924 | Bowling Green |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 23–24–4 (football) 60–43 (basketball) 2–2–2 (baseball) |
Head coaching record
Football
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Chadron State Eagles (Independent) (1919) | |||||||||
1919 | Chadron State | 2–3 | |||||||
Chadron State: | 2–3 | ||||||||
Nebraska Wesleyan Coyotes (Nebraska Intercollegiate Conference) (1920–1921) | |||||||||
1920 | Nebraska Wesleyan | 6–2–2 | |||||||
1921 | Nebraska Wesleyan | 7–3 | |||||||
Nebraska Wesleyan Coyotes (Nebraska Intercollegiate Conference / North Central Conference) (1922) | |||||||||
1922 | Nebraska Wesleyan | 4–4–1 | / 0–2–1 | 3rd / T–8th | |||||
Nebraska Wesleyan: | 17–9–3 | ||||||||
Bowling Green Normals (Northwest Ohio League) (1923) | |||||||||
1923 | Bowling Green | 3–5 | 2–2 | ||||||
Bowling Green: | 3–5 | 2–2 | |||||||
Bethany Bison (West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (1924) | |||||||||
1924 | Bethany | 1–7–1 | |||||||
Bowling Green: | 1–7–1 | ||||||||
Total: | 23–24–4 |
References
- McGuire, Hugh, ed. (1925). The Bethanian 1925. p. 92. Retrieved November 22, 2011.
- "Ray B. M'Candless Dies—Lincoln Man, Well Known Football Coach, Passes Thursday". Lincoln Journal Star. Lincoln, Nebraska. January 8, 1931. p. 7. Retrieved November 13, 2018 – via Newspapers.com
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