Bill Tidwell
{{Short description|American university sports administrator}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2018}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Bill Tidwell
| image = Bill Tidwell, ESU.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|04|08|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Kiowa, Kansas
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|03|16|1932|04|08}}
| death_place = Emporia, Kansas
| alma_mater = Kansas State Teachers College
Columbia University
| player_years1 = 1953–1957
| player_team1 = Kansas State Teachers College
| coach_years1 = 1959–71
| coach_team1 = Oberlin (OH)
| coach_years2 = 1979–1984
| coach_team2 = Emporia State
| admin_years1 = 1959–1971
| admin_team1 = Oberlin
| admin_years2 = 1971–1979
| admin_team2 = Emporia State
| awards = {{Bulleted list
| NAIA Hall of Fame (1963)
| Drake Relays Hall of Fame (1977)
| Emporia State Athletics Hall of Honor (1982)
| Kansas Sports Hall of Fame (2014)
}}
}}
Billy Dale Tidwell (April 8, 1932 – March 16, 2023) was an American university sports administrator and former college track and field and cross country coach. Tidwell served as Emporia State University's athletic director from 1971 to 1979,{{cite web |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/10258600/?terms=norris%2Bpatterson |title=27 Aug 1971, Page 32 - The Emporia Gazette at |publisher=Newspapers.com |date=August 27, 1971 |access-date=June 28, 2016}} and coached track and field, as well as cross country from 1979 until 1984 after his retirement as athletics director.{{cite web |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/10412724/?terms=quayle%2Bnamed%2Bathletics%2Bdirector |title=22 Jul 1979, Page 27 - The Salina Journal at |publisher=Newspapers.com |date=July 22, 1979 |access-date=June 28, 2016}}
Early years
Tidwell was born in Kiowa, Kansas and attended Kiowa High School. After high school, Tidwell attended the Kansas State Teachers College (KSTC) to compete in cross country and track & field. He was a four-time national NAIA champion and finished 3rd in the 880 yards at the 1955 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.{{Brinkster|6687}}{{cite web|url=https://www.emporia.edu/news/06/04/2014/two-hornets-among-kansas-sports-hall-of-fame-inductees/ |title=News Article - News | Emporia State University |publisher=Emporia.edu |date=June 4, 2014 |access-date=July 12, 2016}} Tidwell graduated with a bachelor's of science education in health in 1957, followed by a master's degree in 1958.{{cite web|url=https://www.emporia.edu/alumni/spotlight/archives/documents/SpotlightSpring2015.pdf |title=Emporia State University Spotlight – The Alumni Magazine for Hornet Nation |access-date=July 12, 2016}} Tidwell received his doctorate from Columbia University.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1016&dat=19680314&id=ct0kAAAAIBAJ&pg=2888,415586&hl=en |title=Bill Tidwell gets doctorate |publisher=The Kiowa News |date=March 14, 1968 |access-date=July 12, 2016}}
Career
After graduating from KSTC in 1958, Tidwell became an assistant professor at Hunter College for one year before leaving for Oberlin College.{{cite web |url=http://dcollections.oberlin.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15963coll9/id/10566 |title=Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1959-09-25 :: Student Newspapers at the Five Colleges of Ohio |publisher=Dcollections.oberlin.edu |date=September 25, 1959 |access-date=July 12, 2016}} While at Oberlin, Tidwell was the athletic director, cross country and track & field coach, and a professor in the health and education department.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1016&dat=19670504&id=ct8kAAAAIBAJ&pg=997,374348&hl=en |title=Bill Tidwell is an associate professor |publisher=The Kiowa News |date=May 4, 1967 |access-date=July 12, 2016}} While at Oberlin, Tidwell became the first chairman of both the men's and women's sports.{{cite thesis |last=Brandt |first=Leland J. |url=https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors/565/ |title=The Evolution of Women's Intercollegiate Athletics at Oberlin College |type=BA honors thesis |publisher=Oberlin College |date=April 25, 1992 |access-date=November 17, 2022}}{{unreliable source|date=November 2022}} In 1971, Tidwell became the athletics director at his alma mater.
While at Emporia State from 1971 to 1979, Tidwell served as a professor, chair of the HPER department, and the athletics director.{{cite web|url=http://www.emporiagazette.com/sports/article_7c8e25b0-12f3-59b1-a7c3-f0ef060f041c.html |title=Bill Tidwell joins Kansas Sports Hall of Fame | Sports |publisher=emporiagazette.com |date=October 28, 2014 |access-date=July 12, 2016}} In 1979, Tidwell resigned as the athletics director, while continuing to teach and became the cross country and track & field coach for five years.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19790518&id=GxkiAAAAIBAJ&pg=1897,3267782&hl=en |title=Tidwell to coach at Emporia State |publisher=The Day |date=May 18, 1979 |access-date=July 12, 2016}} Tidwell retired in 1994.
=Awards and honors=
In 1963, Tidwell became a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=http://www.kansas.com/sports/college/state-college-sports/article2503201.html |title=| The Wichita Eagle |publisher=Kansas.com |date=October 3, 2014 |access-date=July 12, 2016}} In 1977, Tidwell entered the Drake Relays Hall of Fame. In 1982, Tidwell became a charter member at his alma mater's hall of fame and in 2014, was inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=http://www.kshof.org/inductees/inductees-a-z/2-kansas-sports-hall-of-fame/inductees/334-bill-tidwell.html |title=Kansas Sports Hall of Fame - Tidwell, Bill |publisher=Kshof.org |access-date=July 12, 2016}} Oberlin College Athletics awards the "Billy Tidwell" to student athletes who show athleticism, professionalism, teaching, and community service.{{cite web |url=http://sidearm.sites.s3.amazonaws.com/goyeo.com/documents/2015/1/27/2014_XC_Newsletter.pdf?id=2179 |title=Oberlin College Cross Country and Track & Field |date=January 27, 2015 |access-date=July 12, 2016}}
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