Charles Bolen
{{Short description|American sports player, coach, and college athletics administrator}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Charles Bolen
| image = Charles W. Bolen.png
| alt =
| caption = Bolen pictured in the 1917 Makio
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1894|1|8|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Marion, Indiana, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1953|12|28|1894|1|8|mf=y}}
| death_place = Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
| alma_mater =
| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = 1915–1917
| player_team2 = Ohio State
| player_sport3 = Basketball
| player_years4 = 1915–1918
| player_team4 = Ohio State
| player_positions = End (football)
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1919–1921
| coach_team2 = Ohio Northern
| coach_years3 = 1923–1929
| coach_team3 = Wilmington (OH)
| coach_sport4 = Basketball
| coach_years5 = 1919–1922
| coach_team5 = Ohio Northern
| coach_years6 = 1923–1929
| coach_team6 = Wilmington (OH)
| coach_sport7 = Baseball
| coach_years8 = 1919–1920
| coach_team8 = Ohio Northern
| overall_record = 37–40–1 (football)
132–65 (basketball)
7–1 (baseball)
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| awards =
- Consensus All-American (1917)
- 2× All-Big Ten (1916, 1917)
| coaching_records =
}}
Charles Wesley "Shifty"The 1918 Ohio State yearbook, the Makio, at page 139, contained a profile of Bolen, indicating he had been "aptly named" as "Shifty" by his teammates. Bolen (January 8, 1894 – December 28, 1953) was an American football and basketball player, coach, and college athletics administrator.
While attending Ohio State University, Bolen played three years for both the Ohio State Buckeyes football and Buckeyes basketball teams. In football, he developed a reputation as a "fierce, tigerish" player and "the premier defensive end in the West",1918 Makio, p. 139. and he was selected as a consensus first-team end on the 1917 College Football All-America Team.{{cite web|title=2012 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections|publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)|year=2012|accessdate=August 15, 2014|page=4|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2012/Awards.pdf}}The Ohio State yearbook for 1917 (the Makio for 1917), at pages 155 and 176, confirms that "Charles W. Bolen" received varsity letters that year in both football and basketball. In basketball, he was captain of Ohio State's 1917–18 team.
Bolen served as the head football at Ohio Northern University from 1919 to 1921 and at Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio from 1923 to 1929, compiling a career college football coaching record of 37–40–1. He was also the head coach of the men's basketball team at Ohio Northern from 1919 to 1922, tallying a mark of 37–19. He served for many years as an administrator in the Ohio Northern athletic department and was the founder of the university's intramural sports program.{{cite web|title=A History of Physical Education at Ohio Northern University|author=Clarence Wesley Molitor|year=1956|publisher=Ohio Northern University|accessdate=August 15, 2014|url=http://www.onu.edu/files/Athletics.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214131859/http://www.onu.edu/files/Athletics.pdf|archive-date=December 14, 2014|url-status=dead}}
Bolen died in 1953 and was buried at the Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio.{{cite web|title=Burial record for Charles W. Bolen|publisher=Greenlawn Cemeter|accessdate=August 15, 2014|url=http://greenlawn.delaohio.com/greenlawn/greenlawndata/b.txt}}
Head coaching record
=Football=
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Ohio Northern
| conf = Ohio Athletic Conference
| startyear = 1919
| endyear = 1921
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1919
| name = Ohio Northern
| overall = 1–8
| conference = 0–6
| confstanding = 15th
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1920
| name = Ohio Northern
| overall = 3–4
| conference = 2–3
| confstanding = 11th
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1921
| name = Ohio Northern
| overall = 5–4
| conference = 4–3
| confstanding = T–7th
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Ohio Northern
| overall = 9–16
| confrecord = 6–12
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Wilmington Quakers
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1923
| endyear = 1929
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| year = 1923
| name = Wilmington
| overall = 2–6
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| year = 1924
| name = Wilmington
| overall = 4–3
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
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| year = 1925
| name = Wilmington
| overall = 6–2
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1926
| name = Wilmington
| overall = 3–4
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1927
| name = Wilmington
| overall = 3–4
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1928
| name = Wilmington
| overall = 6–3
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1929
| name = Wilmington
| overall = 4–2–1
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Wilmington
| overall = 28–24–1
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{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 37–40–1
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
| legend = no
}}
References
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External links
- {{Find a Grave|68987724}}
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