Charles A. Huntington
{{Short description|American football player and coach}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Charles A. Huntington
| image = Shy Huntington.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date |1891|7|7}}
| birth_place = The Dalles, Oregon, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|01|21|1891|7|7}}
| death_place = Eugene, Oregon, U.S.
| alma_mater =
| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = 1914–1916
| player_team2 = Oregon
| player_positions = Quarterback
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1918–1923
| coach_team2 = Oregon
| coach_sport3 = Basketball
| coach_years4 = 1919–1920
| coach_team4 = Oregon
| coach_sport5 = Baseball
| coach_years6 = 1919–1920
| coach_team6 = Oregon
| overall_record = 26–12–6 (football)
8–9 (basketball)
12–15 (baseball)
| bowl_record = 0–1
| tournament_record =
| championships = Football
PCC (1919)
1 Northwest Conference (1922)
| awards = First-team All-PCC (1916)
| coaching_records =
}}
Charles A. "Shy" Huntington (July 7, 1891 – January 1973)[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=o2oRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JOEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6275,690104&dq=shy-huntington+oregon+football Shy Huntington's obituary] was a quarterback and later a multi-sport coach at the University of Oregon.McCann, Michael C. (1995). Oregon Ducks Football: 100 Years of Glory. Eugene, OR: McCann Communications Corp. {{ISBN|0-9648244-7-7}}.
Playing and coaching career
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Huntington began his football career as a quarterback and safety at the University of Oregon. He was the critical player in Oregon's Rose Bowl upset over heavily favored Pennsylvania in 1917, throwing a touchdown pass and intercepting three passes on defense as the Ducks won 14–0.[http://www.rosebowllegends.org/shy-huntington.php Rose Bowl Legends] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070319120811/http://www.rosebowllegends.org/shy-huntington.php |date=March 19, 2007 }} Rose Bowl. URL accessed on August 16, 2006.
Huntington took over as head coach for the Ducks in 1918. He would coach the Ducks for six seasons. He finished with a 26–12–6 record. In 1919, he coached the Ducks to a Rose Bowl berth; they lost to Harvard, 7–6, on January 1, 1920.
He served as Oregon's baseball coach in 1919 and 1920,[http://libweb.uoregon.edu/ec/exhibits/baseball/uo-champions.html Baseball: Researching the National Pastime] University of Oregon. URL accessed on August 16, 2006. and he coached the basketball team for one season, 1919–20, achieving a record of eight wins and nine losses.In that era, it was not uncommon for collegiate coaches to coach several sports. [http://www.collegesportingnews.com/article.asp?articleid=10030 Jack of Both Trades]. College Sporting News. URL accessed on August 16, 2006.
Huntington was a member of the Ku Klux Klan during his time as head coach.{{Cite book|last=Lay|first=Shawn|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-B-TW4_KXhkC&q=university+football+coach|title=The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s|date=2004|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-07171-3|language=en}} {{cite web |last1=Johnson |first1=David |title=Report on the History of Matthew P. Deady and Frederick S. Dunn |url=https://president.uoregon.edu/sites/default/files/deady_dunn_final_report_08-05-16.pdf |access-date=12 June 2025}}
Head coaching record
=Football=
{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Oregon Webfoots
| conf = Northwest Conference / Pacific Coast Conference
| startyear = 1918
| endyear = 1923
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1918
| name = Oregon
| overall = 4–2
| conference = NA / 2–1
| confstanding = NA / 2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1919
| name = Oregon
| overall = 5–2
| conference = 2–1 / 2–1
| confstanding = 2nd / T–1st
| bowlname = Rose
| bowloutcome = L
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1920
| name = Oregon
| overall = 3–2–1
| conference = 1–0–1 / 1–1–1
| confstanding = 2nd / T–3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1921
| name = Oregon
| overall = 5–1–3
| conference = 1–0–3 / 0–1–2
| confstanding = 3rd / 5th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1922
| name = Oregon
| overall = 6–1–1
| conference = 5–0–1 / 3–0–1
| confstanding = T–1st / 2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1923
| name = Oregon
| overall = 3–4–1
| conference = 3–3–1 / 0–4–1
| confstanding = T–3rd / 8th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Oregon
| overall = 26–12–6
| confrecord = 16–8–6
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 26–12–6
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
}}
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