Garfield Weede

Garfield Weede

Weede, suited up for football at Penn
Biographical details
Born	(1880-11-26)November 26, 1880 Burlington, Iowa, U.S.
Died	November 21, 1971(1971-11-21) (aged 90) Wichita, Kansas, U.S.
Playing career
Football
1898–1900	Cooper
1901–1905	Penn
Position(s)	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	87–64–14 (football) 30–32
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
As coach: 3× KCAC (1907, 1919, 1924) As player: National (1904)
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

Garfield 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 team was undefeated in 1904 with a record of 12–0 and has since retroactively been declared "national champions" 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.^[8] He held that position for nine seasons, from 1910 until 1918. His coaching record at Cooper was 21–25–3. Weede is a member of the Sterling College Athletic Hall of Fame.^[9]

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 46–33–7 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.^[10]

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.^[11]

Legacy

Weede was inducted in the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1961.^[12] 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.^[13]

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	0–2–1
1911	Cooper	0–3
1912	Cooper	0–3
1913	Cooper	2–1
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
Cooper:		21–25–3
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:		87–64–14

References

1. Pittsburg State University Collegian^{[permanent dead link‍]} "He believed in complete equality" by Monica Hart, February 25, 2010
2. "The Sterling Kansas Bulletin 19 Oct 1900, page 1". Newspapers.com. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
3. New York Times "PENNA., 16; GETTYSBURG, 6." October 5, 1905
4. College Football Data Warehouse Archived 2012-04-27 at the Wayback Machine 1904 Penn Football Results
5. Washburn University football history
6. 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
7. College Football in Kansas by Harold C. Evans, 1940
8. "Football Media Guide" (PDF). Sterling Warriors. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
9. 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.
10. College Football Data Warehouse Archived 2012-10-19 at the Wayback Machine Pittsburg State University 1924 results
11. College Football Data Warehouse Archived 2012-10-19 at the Wayback Machine Pittsburg State University 1928 results
12. Kansas Sports Hall of Fame^{[permanent dead link‍]} Garfield Weede
13. General alumni catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania, 1922 By University of Pennsylvania. General Alumni Society, p717

External links

• Garfield Weede at Find a Grave