Bill Glassford
{{Short description|American football player and coach (1914–2016)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Bill Glassford
| image = Bill Glassford.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Glassford from the 1951 Cornhusker
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|3|8}}
| birth_place = Lancaster, Ohio, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|9|19|1914|3|8}}
| death_place = Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.
| alma_mater = University of Pittsburgh (1936)
| player_years1 = 1934–1936
| player_team1 = Pittsburgh
| player_years2 = 1937
| player_team2 = Cincinnati Bengals (AFL II)
| player_positions = Fullback, guard
| coach_years1 = 1938{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39589422/bill_glassford_to_coach_at_manhattan/ |title=Bill Glassford To Coach At Manhattan |agency=AP |newspaper=Chillicothe Gazette |location=Chillicothe, Ohio |page=9 |date=February 15, 1938 |accessdate=November 25, 2019 |via=newspapers.com}}–1939
| coach_team1 = Manhattan (assistant)
| coach_years2 = 1940–1941
| coach_team2 = Carnegie Tech (assistant)
| coach_years3 = 1942
| coach_team3 = Yale (line)
| coach_years4 = 1945
| coach_team4 = Miami NAS
| coach_years5 = 1946–1948
| coach_team5 = New Hampshire
| coach_years6 = 1949–1955
| coach_team6 = Nebraska
| overall_record = 51–42–4
| bowl_record = 0–2
| tournament_record =
| championships = 1 New England Conference (1946)
2 Yankee Conference (1947–1948)
| awards =
- First-team All-American (1936)
- First-team All-Eastern (1936)
| coaching_records =
}}
James William Glassford (March 8, 1914 – September 19, 2016) was an American football player and coach, who served as head coach for the New Hampshire Wildcats and Nebraska Cornhuskers.
Biography
Glassford was born in Lancaster, Ohio,{{Cite web|url=http://triblive.com/sports/college/pitt/5703294-74/glassford-pitt-football#axzz2vbhDjjgR|title = /Ccpa/}} and attended the University of Pittsburgh where he played football, lettering from 1934 through 1936. He earned first-team All-American status at guard in 1936, for the Panthers team that won the 1937 Rose Bowl. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and graduated in 1937 with a degree in business administration. He was drafted in the fourth round of the 1937 NFL Draft.{{Cite web |title=1937 NFL Draft Listing |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1937/draft.htm |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}} Also in 1937, he played for the Cincinnati Bengals of the second American Football League. From 1938 through 1942, Glassford coached football at three different colleges. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy.{{Cite web|url=http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=100&ATCLID=211181847|title = Bill Glassford, 102, Dies; America?s Oldest Living Pro}}
From 1946 to 1948, Glassford was head football coach at the University of New Hampshire, where he compiled a 19–5–1 record, including an 8–1 record in 1947 for the Wildcats. From 1949 to 1955, he was head coach for the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he compiled a 31–35–3 record. His three winning seasons there (1950, 1952, and 1954) were the only winning seasons the program had between 1941 and 1961. In 1955, he led the Cornhuskers to their first-ever Orange Bowl, where they lost to Duke, 34–7. Glassford coached three All-Americans in Tom Novak (1949), Bobby Reynolds (1950), and Jerry Minnick (1952).
Glassford retired from coaching after the 1955 season and went into private business in Arizona. He was inducted into the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame in 2002,{{cite web |url=https://huskers.com/sports/football/roster/coaches/bill-glassford/2365 |title=Bill Glassford |website=huskers.com |accessdate=November 25, 2019}} and turned 100 in 2014.{{cite web |url=http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1991075-pitts-oldest-known-living-football-letterman-turns-100 |title=Pitt's Oldest Known Living Football Letterman Turns 100 {{!}} Bleacher Report |website=bleacherreport.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140322014444/http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1991075-pitts-oldest-known-living-football-letterman-turns-100 |archive-date=2014-03-22}} Glassford died in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the age of 102, and was at that time the oldest still-living former pro player, and one of only seven total to have lived a century.{{Cite web|url=http://www.omaha.com/huskers/mckewon-now-former-husker-football-coach-bill-glassford-still-keeps/article_152041f3-59b3-5474-8972-703175131f07.html|title = McKewon: Now 101, former Husker football coach Bill Glassford still keeps up with Nebraska| date=July 25, 2015 }}
Head coaching record
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Miami Naval Air Station
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1945
| endyear = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1945
| name = Miami MAS
| overall = 1–2
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Miami MAS
| overall = 1–2
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = New Hampshire Wildcats
| conf = New England Conference
| startyear = 1946
| endyear = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1946
| name = New Hampshire
| overall = 6–1–1
| conference = 3–0–1
| confstanding = T–1st
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = New Hampshire Wildcats
| conf = Yankee Conference
| startyear = 1947
| endyear = 1948
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1947
| name = New Hampshire
| overall = 8–1
| conference = 4–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname = Glass{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39586166/wildcats_win_streak_broken_in_2014/ |title=Wildcats' Win Streak Broken In 20–14 Duel |agency=AP |newspaper=The Capital |location=Annapolis, Maryland |via=newspapers.com |date=December 7, 1947 |accessdate=November 25, 2019}}{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39586098/toledo_passes_shatter_new_hampshire_in/ |title=Toledo Passes Shatter New Hampshire in Glass Bowl, 20–14 |agency=UP |newspaper=Detroit Free Press |via=newspapers.com |date=December 7, 1947 |accessdate=November 25, 2019}}{{dagger}}
| bowloutcome = L
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1948
| name = New Hampshire
| overall = 5–3
| conference = 3–1
| confstanding = 1st
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = New Hampshire
| overall = 19–5–1
| confrecord = 10–1–1
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Nebraska Cornhuskers
| conf = Big Seven Conference
| startyear = 1949
| endyear = 1955
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1949
| name = Nebraska
| overall = 4–5
| conference = 3–3
| confstanding = T–3rd
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1950
| name = Nebraska
| overall = 6–2–1
| conference = 4–2
| confstanding = 2nd
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| ranking = T–20
| ranking2 = 17
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1951
| name = Nebraska
| overall = 2–8
| conference = 2–4
| confstanding = T–4th
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1952
| name = Nebraska
| overall = 5–4–1
| conference = 3–2–1
| confstanding = 3rd
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1953
| name = Nebraska
| overall = 3–6–1
| conference = 2–4
| confstanding = T–4th
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1954
| name = Nebraska
| overall = 6–5
| conference = 4–2
| confstanding = 2nd
| bowlname = Orange
| bowloutcome = L
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1955
| name = Nebraska
| overall = 5–5
| conference = 5–1
| confstanding = 2nd
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Nebraska
| overall = 31–35–3
| confrecord = 23–18–1
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 51–42–4
| bowls = no
| poll = two
| polltype =
}}
Source:{{Cite web|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=876|title=J. William "Bill" Glassford Records by Year|accessdate=November 30, 2010|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806124659/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=876 |archive-date=August 6, 2016 |via=Wayback Machine}}
{{dagger}} While listed in NCAA records, the Glass Bowl is not considered an NCAA-sanctioned bowl game.
References
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