Clyde Hubert Wilson (December 28, 1889 – November 2, 1959) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Eastern Kentucky University from 1910 to 1911 and at West Tennessee State Normal School—now known as the University of Memphis—from 1912 to 1915, compiling a career college football coaching record of 11–19–2.
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 28, 1889 Bellbrook, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | November 2, 1959 (aged 69) Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1908–1909 | Miami (OH) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1910–1911 | Eastern Kentucky |
| 1912–1915 | West Tennessee State Normal |
| Basketball | |
| 1909–1912 | Eastern Kentucky |
| Baseball | |
| 1915–1919 | West Tennessee State Normal |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1910–1912 | Eastern Kentucky |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 11–19–2 (football) 10–11 (basketball) 19–12–1 (baseball) |
Wilson was born on December 28, 1889, in Bellbrook, Ohio. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Education degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1910 and a Master of Science in education from the University of Tennessee in 1917. Wilson was appointed the head of the industrial arts department at the University of Tennessee in 1925. [1] He died on November 2, 1959, at a doctor's office in Knoxville, Tennessee.[2]
Head coaching record
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edit| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Kentucky Colonels (Independent) (1910–1911) | |||||||||
| 1910 | Eastern Kentucky | 1–4 | |||||||
| 1911 | Eastern Kentucky | 1–3–1 | |||||||
| Eastern Kentucky: | 2–7–1 | ||||||||
| West Tennessee State Normal (Independent) (1912–1915) | |||||||||
| 1912 | West Tennessee State Normal | 1–2–1 | |||||||
| 1913 | West Tennessee State Normal | 1–2 | |||||||
| 1914 | West Tennessee State Normal | 3–5 | |||||||
| 1915 | West Tennessee State Normal | 4–3 | |||||||
| West Tennessee State Normal: | 9–12–1 | ||||||||
| Total: | 11–19–2 | ||||||||
References
edit- ^ Who's Who in American Sport. National Biographical Society. 1928. p. 919. Retrieved March 22, 2018 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Clyde H. Wilson". Johnson City Press. Johnson City, Tennessee. November 3, 1959. p. 2. Retrieved September 23, 2021 – via Newspapers.com
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