Mark Hanna Cardwell (January 7, 1901 – March 20, 1964) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at West Virginia State College—now known as West Virginia State University—in Institute, West Virginia from 1945 to 1957. Cardwell was also the head basketball coach at West Virginia State for 19 seasons from 1945 until his death in 1964. Cardwellled West Virginia State to Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) championships in football in 1948 and 1951 and in basketball in 1948, 1949, and 1951.
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 7, 1901 Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | March 20, 1964 (aged 63) Morgantown, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| c. 1921–1924 | West Virginia State |
| Position(s) | Fullback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1925–1944 | Kelly Miller HS (WV) |
| 1945–1957 | West Virginia State |
| Basketball | |
| 1945–1964 | West Virginia State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 64–40–10 (college football) |
| Bowls | 0–1 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Football 2 CIAA (1948, 1951) Basketball 3 CIAA regular season (1948–1949, 1951) | |
A native of Columbus, Ohio, Cardwell attended East High School, where the played football alongside Chic Harley, who went on to star at Ohio State University. Cardwell played football, basketball and baseball at West Virginia State from 1921 to 1925, when the school was known as West Virginia Collegiate Institute. In football, he played as a fullback, starting for teams coached by Adolph Hamblin. Cardwell began coaching career in 1925 at Kelly Miller High School in Clarksburg, West Virginia, remaining there until 1945 when he returned to West Virginia State to succeed Hamblin as head football coach and also coached baseball and track.[1]
Cardwell died of a heat attack, on March 20, 1964, in Morgantown, West Virginia.[2][3]
Head coaching record
editCollege football
edit| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia State Yellow Jackets (Colored/Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1945–1953) | |||||||||
| 1945 | West Virginia State | 5–1–2 | 4–0–2 | 2nd | |||||
| 1946 | West Virginia State | 6–3–1 | 5–2 | 2nd | L Derby Bowl | ||||
| 1947 | West Virginia State | 7–2–1 | 4–1–1 | 6th | |||||
| 1948 | West Virginia State | 5–2–2 | 5–1 | 1st | |||||
| 1949 | West Virginia State | 8–0 | 7–0 | 1st | |||||
| 1950 | West Virginia State | 5–3–1 | 3–2–1 | 4th | |||||
| 1951 | West Virginia State | 6–2–1 | 5–0–1 | 1st | |||||
| 1952 | West Virginia State | 6–4 | 5–3 | 4th | |||||
| 1953 | West Virginia State | 6–3 | 4–2 | 5th | |||||
| 1954 | West Virginia State | 3–6 | 1–5 | 14th | |||||
| West Virginia State Yellow Jackets (Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association / West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (1945–1953) | |||||||||
| 1955 | West Virginia State | 1–7 | 0–6 / 0–1 | 17th / NA | |||||
| West Virginia State Yellow Jackets (West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (1956–1957) | |||||||||
| 1956 | West Virginia State | 4–3 | 1–0 | NA | |||||
| 1957 | West Virginia State | 2–4–2 | 2–1–1 | 3rd | |||||
| West Virginia State: | 64–40–10 | 46–23–6 | |||||||
| Total: | 64–40–10 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth | |||||||||
References
edit- ^ "Mark Cardwell Named Football Coach At W. Virginia State". The New York Age. New York, New York. August 11, 1945. p. 11. Retrieved May 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com
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- ^ "Death Ends Long Coaching Career". The Pittsburgh Courier. March 28, 1964. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Dan Hose (March 21, 1964). "Cardwell's Death Shock To Coaches". The Charleston Daily Mail. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
